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
We want to hear about a place you love that has defied its bad reputation. Maybe there’s a drab local... more
Travel to the world’s oldest intact pyramid in Egypt - and learn about the genius who also influenced the fields... more
In September 1991, eight people moved into Biosphere 2, a nearly airtight glass and steel complex in the Arizona desert.... more
In the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, on the tiny island of Saint Helena, sits the Longwood House. It... more
An urban explorer ventured deep below downtown Minneapolis in search of Schieks Cave. He discovered more than he bargained for.
For a brief window in the late 1800s, America’s favorite sport was walking in circles over and over and over.... more
Producer Johanna Mayer travels to Times Square in NYC, in search of particular sound that may sometimes go overlooked.
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
Dylan visits a patch of Nevada desert known at times as Paradise Ranch, Dreamland Resort, or as most people know... more
How did this philosopher’s dead body wind up on display in a university student center?