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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 Cardiff Giant Re-Listen Jun 21, 2022

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All summer we’ve been asking you to send us your summer travel stories. In this installment we hear a listener’s tale of a theological dispute that became a real money-maker known to some as “Old Hoaxy.”

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cardiff-giant

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Leimert Park Re-Listen Jun 20, 2022

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Producer Baudelaire Ceus travels to Leimert Park, a unique neighborhood in Los Angeles characterized by its historical relationship to Black liberation.

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Booming Dunes Re-Listen Jun 17, 2022

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An audio postcard from the desert of Badain Jaran in China, home of the Booming Dunes, and possibly the coolest sand sounds you’ve ever heard.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/booming-dunes-badain-desert

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Garbage Goat Jun 16, 2022

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This sculpture in Spokane, WA was created by a"welding nun" decades ago.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/garbage-eating-goat-statue

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The Divorce Colony Jun 15, 2022

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For a brief period the small frontier city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota drew in socialites and celebrities who were desperate to end their marriages.

For more stories from the Divorce Colony, check out April White's book: The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier.

https://thedivorcecolony.com/

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The Cincinnati Subway Jun 14, 2022

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There are two miles of abandoned tunnels beneath the streets of Cincinnati, OH. A relic of an attempt to establish underground transportation in the city.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-cincinnati-subway-cincinnati-ohio

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The Places You Return To Jun 13, 2022

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Atlas Obscura listeners share stories from places they love so much they keep going back.

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La Paz Re-listen Jun 10, 2022

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In the busy, traffic-packed capital city of Bolivia, we meet the zebras who keep the streets of La Paz safe for its citizens.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/la-paz-cebritas

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World’s Oldest Edible Ham Jun 09, 2022

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Atlas Obscura’s resident food and death reporter Sam O’Brien takes us to Smithfield, Virginia, where we meet a 120-year-old ham, and the people who love it.

Learn more about the Isle of Wight County Museum: www.historicisleofwight.com/

Let Sam eat the ham: hamtruther.com

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-oldest-edible-ham

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Nakagin Capsule Tower Jun 08, 2022

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This social and architectural experiment in Tokyo, Japan was once the leading building in a movement attempting to pair construction and biological growth.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nakagin-capsule-tower

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