The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Experience the Orfield Anechoic Chamber: a room inside a concrete bunker that was once known as the quietest place on earth.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/orfield-labs-quiet-chamber

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In honor of the release of our new book, we bring you another Gastro Obscura Classic: A ranch on the outskirts of Aptos, California features a magical machine that dispenses music, joy, and 18 of the freshest eggs in the land.

Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide is a whirlwind tour of the world's edible wonders. Order your copy today!

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/egg-vending-machine-at-glaum-ranch-aptos-california

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In honor of the release of our new book, we bring you another Gastro Obscura Classic: Open your minds and steel your stomachs as we go to a food museum in Sweden that challenges what exactly makes something delicious… or disgusting.

Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide is a whirlwind tour of the world's edible wonders. Order your copy today!

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/disgusting-food-museum

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In honor of the release of our new book TODAY, we bring you a Gastro Obscura Classic: Inside a living, breathing collection of sourdough starters in Belgium

Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide is a whirlwind tour of the world's edible wonders. Order your copy today!

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sourdough-library

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Explore the unexpected combination of recipes and graves through the story of Naomi Odessa Miller Dawson’s spritz cookies.

This week we’re celebrating the release of our new bookt! It's called Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide, a whirlwind tour of the world's edible wonders. Pre-order your copy, and as a bonus you'll get some mathematically efficient cookie cutters!

We’ll be running classic Gastro Obscura-themed episodes of the podcast all week long, so stay tuned for more edible audio wonders!

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/spritz-cookie-gravestone-greenwood-cemetery-cookie

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Places editors Jonathan and Michele are back again with a few new standout entries to the Atlas … including ancient ossuaries and a shrine covered in shells that’s far from the sea.

We have a new book coming out! It's called Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide, a whirlwind tour of the world's edible wonders.Pre-order your copy, and as a bonus you'll get some mathematically efficient cookie cutters!

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The story of the white deer on Mount Madonna, the two robber barons who put them there, and the last survivor of the herd.

We have a new book coming out! It's called Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide, a whirlwind tour of the world's edible wonders.Pre-order your copy, and as a bonus you'll get some mathematically efficient cookie cutters!

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From the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death we move to the Scarpetta house, where full-size reenactments help investigators perfect their skills in evaluating death.

We have a new book coming out! It's called Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide, a whirlwind tour of the world's edible wonders.Pre-order your copy, and as a bonus you'll get some mathematically efficient cookie cutters!

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-most-violent-room-in-baltimore-baltimore-maryland

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Eighteen macabre miniatures housed at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore Maryland have shaped the field of criminal investigation.

We have a new book coming out! It's called Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide, a whirlwind tour of the world's edible wonders.Pre-order your copy, and as a bonus you'll get some mathematically efficient cookie cutters!

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-nutshell-studies-of-unexplained-death-baltimore-maryland

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All summer we’ve been asking you to send us your summer travel stories. And in this final installment of summer stories we tackle a topic that transcends the seasons - the captivating magic of water during travel.

We have a new book coming out! It's called Gastro Obscura: a Food Adventurer's Guide, a whirlwind tour of the world's edible wonders.

Pre-order your copy at Atlasobscura.com/book, and as bonus you'll get some mathematically efficient cookie cutters!

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We sift through the dirt to solve a mystery involving a massive mammoth grave site.

We have a new book coming out! It's called Gastro Obscura: a Food Adventurer's Guide, a whirlwind tour of the world's edible wonders.

Pre-order your copy at Atlasobscura.com/book, and as bonus you'll get some mathematically efficient cookie cutters!

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mammoth-site

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Host Dylan Thuras visits a Staten Island mansion with a dubious and vitriolic past, only to learn the site’s curse may not be as obvious as it seems.

We have a new book coming out! It's called Gastro Obscura: a Food Adventurer's Guide, a whirlwind tour of the world's edible wonders.

Pre-order your copy at Atlasobscura.com/book, and as bonus you'll get some mathematically efficient cookie cutters!

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kreischer-mansion

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Fishlake National Forest is home to the biggest organism by mass on the planet - but this giant is shrinking and an usual group has banded together to help defend it.

We have a new book coming out! It's called Gastro Obscura: a Food Adventurer's Guide, a whirlwind tour of the world's edible wonders.

Pre-order your copy at Atlasobscura.com/book, and as bonus you'll get some mathematically efficient cookie cutters!

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pando-the-trembling-giant

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All summer we’ve been asking you to send us your summer travel stories. In this installment we hear a listener’s tale of a theological dispute that became a real money-maker known to some as “Old Hoaxy.”

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cardiff-giant

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A trip to Sweden prompts producer Sarah Wyman to dig into a superstitious story passed through generations about the Red Stone Man.

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Places editors Jonathan and Michele are back again with a few new standout entries to the Atlas … including a spot in Antarctica that’s home to the oldest Martian meteorite and a column in Greece that symbolizes the fear and ritual past generations embraced when faced with their own plague.

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Artist Erika Nelson didn’t set out in life to necessarily become one of the foremost connoisseurs of large things, but her museum in Lucas, KS is nevertheless the ultimate tribute to the roadside attraction.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-largest-collection-of-smallest-versions-of-largest-things

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All summer we’ve been asking you to send us your summer travel stories. Our second installment in the series follows one listener from London to Rome – on foot.

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This secluded museum beats the drum for the preservation of Nepal's musical heritage.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nepali-folk-musical-instrument-museum

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A spinning furnace tucked under the football stadium at the University of Arizona is building giant telescope mirrors.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/richard-f-caris-mirror-laboratory

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This museum’s buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/good-vibrations-antique-vibrator-museum

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All summer we’ve been asking you to send us your summer travel stories. This is the first of a series of listener-powered episodes about this magical season.

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About 400 miles south of New Zealand, on the subantarctic Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, stands a Sitka spruce whose nearest neighbor is 170 miles away.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-loneliest-tree

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We visit Vanuatu in the South Pacific and go underwater to visit a very strange place from a very strange episode at the end of World War.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/million-dollar-point

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We’ve made 100 episodes of the show and figured it was time to hear from the people who make it happen. Enjoy! (And go back and catch up on any episodes you’ve missed)

Kulning: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/episode/kulning-82833088

Mafra Library Bats: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/episode/mafra-palace-library-bats-84059889

Clausland Mountain Tunnels: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/episode/clausland-mountain-tunnels-200225799

The White Squirrel of Prospect Park: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/episode/the-white-squirrel-of-prospect-park-200230461

Bolton Strid: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/episode/bolton-strid-200226079

Booming Dunes: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/episode/booming-dunes-84568835

The Village Where Every Person's Name Is a Song: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/episode/the-village-where-every-persons-name-is-a-song-200229462

Hachiko: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/episode/hachiko-200223598

Museum of Broken Relationships: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/episode/museum-of-broken-relationships-200228325

Newark Earthworks: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/episode/newark-earthworks-200225907

Grasshopper Glacier: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/episode/grasshopper-glacier-83007114

Women of the Black Panther Mural: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/episode/women-of-the-black-panther-mural-200226616

Kilwa Kisiwani: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/episode/kilwa-kisiwani-200229175

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A listener in Lawrence, Kansas takes us on his journey of discovering the secrets of his hometown.

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This site, and the enormous telescope that sits on it, is loved and lost to both scientists and everyday Puerto Ricans.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/arecibo-observatory

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She’s about 8 feet wide and 500 pounds. And her history spans all the way from the stockyards of Chicago...to a nuclear test during the Manhattan Project...to a stadium at the University of Texas at Austin.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/big-bertha-drum

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Sun cannons have been around since the 1600s. But as far as we know, there’s only one left that’s still up and running. We pay it a visit.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/atvidaberg-sun-cannon

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We nearly stump host Dylan Thuras with a seemingly simple question: Who are the top five dead people he would like to go on a road trip with?

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An industrial water tank-turned-concert hall in the high deserts of Colorado is nothing less than a sonic wonder of the world.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-tank-rangely-colorado

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On the tiny Kinmen Island, a bow-tie-shape strip of land between China and Taiwan, sits a giant weaponized wall of sound that still stands--and still broadcasts--today.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/beishan-broadcast-station-art

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There are tens of thousands of entries in the Atlas -- In these episodes, we hear from the people who sift through them, Jonathan and Michele, and hear about their favorites.

Learn more about submitting to the Atlas here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/faq

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The story of the unimaginable destruction of the American Chestnut tree and the group of scientists, academics and tree lovers who are desperately trying to bring them back from the edge of extinction.

LEARN MORE: Visit https://acf.org/ to find out more about this massive conservation effort

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Host Dylan Thuras confronts the good and the bad ways travel changes as you move through different life stages.

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A walk through this scale model has you feeling like a giant, and striding from Baton Rouge to Omaha in an hour.

LEARN MORE about the model and the group trying to revive it, here: https://friendsofmrbm.org/

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A repository in Cambridge, Massachusetts holds over 2,700 pigments that’ve been quietly coloring the world around us since the beginning of human history.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/forbes-pigment-collection

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Our team goes on a quest to find Prospect Park’s elusive -- and perhaps most magical -- resident rodent.

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On the outskirts of Oslo, Norway, there’s a mausoleum some say is the city’s “best kept secret.” It’s the underrated masterpiece of a mostly unknown artist -- an artist who was overshadowed his whole life by his more successful brother.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/emanuel-vigeland-museum

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Artist Rachel Sussman takes us on a tour of the world's oldest living things, which she’s been documenting for 10 years.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/worlds-oldest-living-things

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We visit a park in Palo Alto, California, home of the world’s most famous donkey.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-donkeys-of-barron-park-palo-alto-california

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Host Dylan Thuras chats with author and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell about a beloved Disney movie, and the deeper questions it raised about the stories we tell ourselves -- and our children -- about places real and imaginary.

Hear more: You can listen to Malcolm Gladwell’s series on The LIttle Mermaid, and other stories in the latest season of Revisionist History here

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A huge rock, teetering on the edge of a hill for thousands of years, brought tourism, fame, and what’s said to be a 100-year curse to the town of Tandil, Argentina

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/la-piedra-movediza

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Does this sprawling mansion in San Jose, California live up to its reputation as one of the most haunted places in the world?

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/winchester-mystery-house

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The story of how humans desperate for water created a lake the size of the city of Los Angeles. And then, how that thirst turned toxic.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salton-sea

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A river in the Amazon is so hot that anything that falls into it will die … but how did it get this way?

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-boiling-river-of-the-amazon-puerto-inca-peru

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In Kongthong, India, every person’s name is a unique song, composed by their mother within a week of their birth, part of a centuries-old tradition.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-indian-villagers-have-musical-names

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The story of the women who stepped up to produce thousands of guitars during World War II, only to be written out of the history.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-old-gibson-guitar-factory-kalamazoo-michigan

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A listener’s voicemail sent us searching for the story of a very special -- and giant -- oak tree Peoria, Illinois, and the family of arborists who cared for it.

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Grab your pickaxes, your shovels, and your code breaking supercomputers because today we’re going on a treasure hunt.

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