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The Atlas Obscura Podcast Stitcher Studios
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4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
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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.
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Tree Week: Forty Fruit Tree (Classic)
The Tree of 40 fruits in San Jose California is an horticultural marvel of 40 types of stone fruit trees grafted together to form a living work of art.
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Tree Week: Killer Trees with Mary Roach
We promise, this is not another sappy (pardon the pun) story about trees. Instead, author and science writer Mary Roach takes us deep into an ancient forest grove on Vancouver Island, in search of the danger trees and the people who seek them out.
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Tree Week: Oh, the places you will go... to see these notable trees
We spend some time with some celebrity trees – one in Washington DC and one in Berlin – that have left an impact on all who visit them. Today’s stories are brought to you by Michelle Cassidy and Diana Hubbell, of the Atlas Obscura Places Team.
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Tree Week: Love Letters
In 2012, the city of Melbourne gave every tree a barcode and email address so people could report when it needed maintenance or attention. But, a funny thing started happening. Instead of reporting problems, people began emailing love letters to the trees.
MORE: Is there a special tree in your life? One worthy of a love letter? Let us know! Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message telling us your name and your love letter to a tree. Just so you know, our mailbox will cut you off after two minutes so please call again if that happens! -
Tree Week: A Tasty Tale about Meyer Lemons
Meyer lemons are so special that restaurants go out of their way to call them out on menus. Martha Stewart loves to bake with them. And yet, Meyer lemons also have a fascinating and kinda tragic backstory. Tune in for a very fun episode about this very particular fruit. Our guest in this episode is Mandy Naglich, professional taster and author of “How To Taste.”
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/meyer-lemon -
Musk Ox Farm (Classic)
The Musk Ox Farm in Palmer, Alaska aims to domesticate a species that used to roam the earth at the same time as the wooly mammoth.
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/musk-ox-farm
Customer Reviews
Please stop frying.
Please, stop with this affection. It’s distracting and makes it appear that you’re too exhausted to finish a sentence.
Hard to understand
The topic is so fantastic but Baudelaire is so hard to understand. He drops his voice and we lose the meaning of what is being spoken. Please re-record Beaudelaire’s podcasts with someone who speaks slowly, enunciates and doesn’t drop his/ her voice.
Podcasts are radical!
Two is funnier than one. At least those dorky car guys had fun.