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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 • 1.2K 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.

    Koutammakou

    Koutammakou

    A race is on to save this world heritage site that straddles the border of Togo and Benin. It’s home to remarkable earth tower homes called Takienta, and the Batammariba people, whose existence is threatened by climate change and migration.
    READ MORE IN THE ATLAS https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/koutammakou-batammariba

    • 12 min
    Woman with the Handbag

    Woman with the Handbag

    We go to Sweden, where some people are intent on making a woman a permanent symbol of resistance, whether or not she would have wanted it.

    READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/woman-with-the-handbag-statue

    • 12 min
    Tick Collection

    Tick Collection

    We go to Statesboro, Georgia to the US National Tick Collection to learn what ticks, often thought of as little monstrosities, can teach us.
    READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/us-national-tick-collection

    • 11 min
    Tina Turner Museum (Classic)

    Tina Turner Museum (Classic)

    The Flagg Grove School in Brownsville, Tennessee has become a museum dedicated to its most famous student.
    READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tina-turner-museum

    • 13 min
    Micropia (Classic)

    Micropia (Classic)

    Take a trip to Micropia, the world’s only museum dedicated to microscopic organisms, and learn about our invisible life companions.
    READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/micropia

    • 14 min
    American Chestnut Foundation (Classic)

    American Chestnut Foundation (Classic)

    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

    • 13 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
1.2K Ratings

1.2K Ratings

Xbound24 ,

Mixed bag of quality

On the whole I do enjoy this podcast and getting to learn about all these sorts of hidden gems of the world, but the various hosts really can be hit or miss. Several of the main female hosts have such severe vocal fry that it’s difficult to understand them in any setting with background noise.

Baudelaire is a particular miss for me. All of his episodes start out talking about himself and he clearly has a large chip on his shoulder - but at the expense of good research. When he raved over the soursop he had in Africa but never mentioned that it’s a Central American fruit I had to roll my eyes - he’s very concerned with African history being erased but doesn’t do very basic research for cultures that are not his own. His episodes are more negative too - in the Pyramid of Djoser episode, why even mention the tour guide you didn’t like? Just skip to the interview. And he made a big deal out of being taught that the Greeks founded civilization and African contributions were erased…where did you go to school that didn’t teach about the Egyptian achievements and that Egypt was part of Africa? There are many things to criticize about our education in America re other cultures, but this is not it. Leave this to the experts and editorialize less. His guest did not feel the need to compare the Egyptians to other cultures to show their success.

I do really love many of the lesser featured hosts - I wish the podcast had a bit more of an even distribution between all the regular hosts - some of them are great.

george the traveler ,

Exploring

All the host are wonderful, they bring there own perspective to the table and that is what makes the show so interesting. Thank you for doing the leg work. Love hearing and then visiting the wondrous places this world can offer.❤️

Red Dog K ,

Very interesting!

What a great way to dive into random and interesting topics that make you go hmmm…and I love the length. The show gets right to the topic without a ton of fluff!

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