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The Atlas Obscura Podcast — Places & Travel
The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Your guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Kelly McEvers and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters transport you to a new wonder every day. Along the way, you’ll meet fascinating people and hear their stories.

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The Wren’s Nest Nov 08, 2022

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The Wren’s Nest in Atlanta is both a museum and former home of journalist Joel Chandler Harris and a hub for modern storytellers.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-wrens-nest

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Laguna Del Diamante Nov 07, 2022

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A toxic lake high in the Andes mountains in Argentina is home to microbes that provide a window to our planet’s past — and a key to securing its future.

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/laguna-del-diamante

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Atlas Obscura Presents Real Good Nov 04, 2022

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Real Good is a podcast with the mission to highlight real people out in the world - trying to make it better. This excerpt features the Real Good hosts and Goalsetter CEO Tanya Van Court discussing financial literacy. The show is powered by US Bank.

Visit https://www.stitcher.com/show/real-good to listen to the show's fourth season.

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Kasanka Bat Migration Nov 03, 2022

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Kasanka National Park in Zambia hosts one of the largest – and most mysterious! – animal migrations on the planet.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kasanka-bat-migration

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Hacienda Napoles Nov 02, 2022

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Medellín Cartel founder Pablo Escobar built himself a sort of Jurassic Park-meets-Disney World resort with drug money. He called it Hacienda Nápoles. Now it’s overrun by Hippos.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hacienda-napoles

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Thompson Ice House Nov 01, 2022

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Thompson’s Ice House in Bristol, Maine is one of the only places in the United States where people gather every winter to take part in the age-old process of harvesting ice from a frozen pond. This “Small Town-Big Story” episode is produced in partnership with GoUSA TV.

To watch the video, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqxWG55-Mf8

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-thompson-ice-house-harvesting-museum-south-bristol-maine

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Scary Stories from Real Places Oct 31, 2022

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Atlas contributors bring listeners stories from spooky locations they’ve visited and which continue to haunt them.

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Witch Cakes Oct 28, 2022

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These cakes had a particular ingredient that some believe protected them from witchery - and sparked one of the best-known witch hunts in United States history.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-witch-cakes

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Spooky Sites with the Places Team Oct 27, 2022

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With Halloween just around the corner Jonathan Carey and Michelle Cassidy of the Atlas Places Team bring you two spooky legends of The Mothman from Point Pleasant, West Virginia and a potentially ghoulish forest in the Transylvanian Region of Romania.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mothman-museum-2 and https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hoia-baciu-forest

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Luomus Spiders Oct 26, 2022

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The Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki has been home to an infestation of Chilean recluse spiders for more than 50 years.

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