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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
    • 4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

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.

    Ruins of Le Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale (Classic)

    Ruins of Le Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale (Classic)

    This garden park in Paris, France contains the ruins of a colonial exhibition from 1907.

    READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/le-jardin-d-agronomie-tropicale

    • 16 min
    Controlled Cold with Nicky Twilley

    Controlled Cold with Nicky Twilley

    We get a crash course in the fascinating temperature-controlled ecosystem we’ve created to keep our food fresh – and available – all year round. Our guide is Nicky Twilley, co-host of the Gastropod podcast and author of the new book called Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves.

    • 28 min
    Welcome To Wall Drug

    Welcome To Wall Drug

    In the South Dakota badlands, a small pharmacy employed an ingenious marketing gimmick, and boomed into a business that draws millions of visitors every year. It’s a story that involves giant dinosaurs, a mythological jack rabbit, and lots and lots of donuts.

    • 17 min
    Traveling With Kids: Please Send Help

    Traveling With Kids: Please Send Help

    We’ve got a fun collaboration with podcasters SuChin Pak and Kulap Vilaysack, hosts of Add to Cart. Hear them chat with Dylan about traveling with kids – the good, the bad, and the vomit-y times. Pick up tips if you’re about to make your first or 10th trip with young people this summer.

    • 24 min
    Blue Spring State Park

    Blue Spring State Park

    We head to Florida, the wintertime refuge for many, for a glimpse of a rehabilitation effort aimed at some very distinct creatures known for being gentle giants – manatees. This episode was produced in partnership with VISIT FLORIDA.

    • 13 min
    The Last Sears in New York City (Classic)

    The Last Sears in New York City (Classic)

    Producer Johanna Mayer takes a trip to the last Sears in New York City, and a Brooklyn landmark, with two people whose lives were shaped by the department store.

    • 15 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
1.3K Ratings

1.3K Ratings

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A beautiful and fun show that makes me feel like I’m dipping into other worlds. Fascinating topics that make me realize the world is bigger than I ever knew

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