pod.link/1555769970
pod.link copied!
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura

An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore... more

Listen now on

Apple Podcasts
Spotify
Overcast
Podcast Addict
Pocket Casts
Castbox
Podbean
iHeartRadio
Player FM
Podcast Republic
Castro
RSS

Episodes

We Want to Know: What’s a Place You Love That Has Defied Its Bad Reputation?

We want to hear about a place you love that has defied its bad reputation. Maybe there’s a drab local... more

05 Apr 2025 · 1 minute
Pyramid of Djoser

Travel to the world’s oldest intact pyramid in Egypt - and learn about the genius who also influenced the fields... more

04 Apr 2025 · 14 minutes
A Glass Palace in the Arizona Desert

In September 1991, eight people moved into Biosphere 2, a nearly airtight glass and steel complex in the Arizona desert.... more

03 Apr 2025 · 24 minutes
The Last Home Napoleon Would Know

In the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, on the tiny island of Saint Helena, sits the Longwood House. It... more

02 Apr 2025 · 14 minutes
The Cave Below Minneapolis

An urban explorer ventured deep below downtown Minneapolis in search of Schieks Cave. He discovered more than he bargained for.

01 Apr 2025 · 12 minutes
The 6-Day Race

For a brief window in the late 1800s, America’s favorite sport was walking in circles over and over and over.... more

31 Mar 2025 · 14 minutes
Times Square Hum (Classic)

Producer Johanna Mayer travels to Times Square in NYC,  in search of particular sound that may sometimes go overlooked.

29 Mar 2025 · 11 minutes
President Heads (Classic)

What to do when you have 20-foot-tall busts of nearly every U.S. President and nowhere to put them? This episode was... more

28 Mar 2025 · 11 minutes
Dreamland Resort

Dylan visits a patch of Nevada desert known at times as Paradise Ranch, Dreamland Resort, or as most people know... more

27 Mar 2025 · 23 minutes
Jeremy Bentham’s Auto-Icon

How did this philosopher’s dead body wind up on display in a university student center?

26 Mar 2025 · 15 minutes