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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

    • Society & Culture

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 Glove Museum

    The Glove Museum

    This museum in New York is a recreated 19th century glove making workshop complete with sizing tools, cutting blocks, and irons. It’s also part studio, part exhibition space and the brainchild of a craftsman who dedicated his life to the art of glove-making.

    • 15 min
    Grizzly Adams: America’s Mythic Mountain Man

    Grizzly Adams: America’s Mythic Mountain Man

    In the 1850s, one anonymous Massachusetts shoemaker became a national celebrity – all by exhibiting his “family” of captured grizzly bears.

    • 16 min
    In The Heart Of NYC, A Refuge For Birds

    In The Heart Of NYC, A Refuge For Birds

    A hospital and rehab center for birds in Manhattan started with a woman who just wanted to do all she could to help an injured goose. Decades later, it has become an institution.

    READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/wild-bird-fund

    • 11 min
    The Start of a Language

    The Start of a Language

    Places editors Michelle Cassidy and Jonathan Carey bring us stories about two specific languages that were created by people who gave us a glimpse into their worlds and cultures – real and imagined.

    • 17 min
    Nerding Out on Ancient Queens with Torri Yates-Orr

    Nerding Out on Ancient Queens with Torri Yates-Orr

    History buff Torri Yates-Orr gives us the tea on Nefertiti, Cleopatra, and Amanirenas – and explains why we often don’t hear their full stories in history class.

    • 25 min
    For Keeps Books (Classic)

    For Keeps Books (Classic)

    In Atlanta, on this historic Auburn Avenue, sits a small bookstore and reading room that’s been called “an interactive art museum of Black Thought”

    LEARN MORE: https://www.forkeepsbooks.com/

    • 16 min

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