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An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore a new wonder every day, Monday through Thursday. In under 15 minutes, they’ll take you to an incredible place, and along the way, you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Our theme and end credit music is composed by Sam Tyndall.

The Atlas Obscura Podcast Stitcher Studios

    • Gesellschaft und Kultur
    • 4,9 • 8 Bewertungen

An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore a new wonder every day, Monday through Thursday. In under 15 minutes, they’ll take you to an incredible place, and along the way, you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Our theme and end credit music is composed by Sam Tyndall.

    The Theater of Electricity (Classic)

    The Theater of Electricity (Classic)

    Step inside the Theater of Electricity in Boston and learn about the World’s Largest Air-Insulated Van De Graaff Generator.

    READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-largest-airinsulated-van-de-graaff-generator

    • 15 Min.
    Our Lives Through Hollywood’s Eyes

    Our Lives Through Hollywood’s Eyes

    Writer and journalist Walt Hickey joins Dylan for a conversation about the different ways film and television have impacted us and our real world surroundings, a topic that’s the subject of his new book You Are What You Watch.

    • 22 Min.
    The Arrow Stork

    The Arrow Stork

    The story of a stork, a spear and a scientific mystery that led to breakthroughs in the way we understand bird migration.

    • 11 Min.
    A 15,000 Year Old Tree and a Housing Development

    A 15,000 Year Old Tree and a Housing Development

    In the California’s Jurupa Valley, residents discovered a treasure in their backyard: a 15,000 year old tree. Now, it may disappear.

    Read Shannon Osaka’s article about the Jurupa Oak.

    • 15 Min.
    Meet the Man Who Sets America’s Living Rooms on Fire

    Meet the Man Who Sets America’s Living Rooms on Fire

    Today we visit the ATF Fire Research Laboratory where investigators recreate arson attacks and analyze burn patterns.

    Read more about John Allen and his work at the world's largest fire research laboratory.

    • 19 Min.
    Discovery Hut (Classic)

    Discovery Hut (Classic)

    Atlas Obscura's Gemma Tarlach shares what it's like to step inside a relic from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and to find traces of a famous lost party of explorers.

    READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/discovery-hut

    • 12 Min.

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4,9 von 5
8 Bewertungen

8 Bewertungen

ValerieGiguere ,

Best podcast in the world ❤️🐌💌🌍

Finally something different about places most didn’t know about. I found a podcast and website where i want to read every single article… I discovered it when setting up my SnailMailChronicles.com project and it was love at first sight! Right up my alley.

Hovis851 ,

Short and interesting...

For everyone who loves and is interested in the world! This podcast presents interesting and obscure places and makes you feel either that you’ve already been there or that you’d like to visit. Highly recommended!

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