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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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Père Lachaise Cemetery May 24, 2022

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Producer Baudelaire Ceus searches for the resting place of famed author Richard Wright among the graves of other cultural icons like Gertrude Stein, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf, and Sadegh Hedaya.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pere-lachaise-cemetery

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Leaning Tower of Niles May 23, 2022

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Niles, Illinois is home to an exact replica of Italy’s leaning tower of Pisa - only it’s half the size of the original structure.

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/leaning-tower-niles

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Not Lost in the Umbrella Covers Museum May 20, 2022

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Brendan Francis Newnam, the host of the new podcast Not Lost, and Dylan Thuras discuss how getting lost is the best way to find yourself. And Brendan shares a great scene from his podcast where he and his co-host travel to the Umbrella Cover Museum on Peaks Island in Maine.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/umbrella-cover-museum

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The Places We Return To May 19, 2022

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Atlas Obscura contributors take listeners to some of the places they loved so much they keep going back.

Got your own place that calls you to return again and again? Submit a voice memo to hello@atlasobscura.com

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Monongahela Incline May 18, 2022

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This funicular in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania used to offer coal and steel workers a respite from the smog of industry.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/monongahela-incline

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Goblin Valley State Park May 17, 2022

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Today the story of how a street lamp, a tangle with municipal government, and a love of the stars led a man to Goblin Valley, Utah a “dark sky certified” place for lovers of the night sky.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/goblin-valley-state-park

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The Last Big Mac in Iceland May 16, 2022

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Take a trip to a hostel in Iceland to visit the country’s last Big Mac, where the burger’s existence unfolds a story about economics and national identity.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/iceland-mcdonalds

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The Boiling River Re-Listen May 13, 2022

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A river in the Amazon is so hot that anything that falls into it will die … but how did it get this way?

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-boiling-river-of-the-amazon-puerto-inca-peru

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Ruins of Le Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale May 12, 2022

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This garden park in Paris, France contains the ruins of a colonial exhibition from 1907.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/le-jardin-d-agronomie-tropicale

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The Maiden of Deception Pass May 11, 2022

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Thousands of years ago, a young woman named Ko-kwal-alwoot crouched over a set of tide pools, looked into the water, and saw a face looking back at her that wasn’t her own. Today, her descendants are still telling the story of what happened next.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-maiden-of-deception-pass

Learn more about the Samish Indian Nation: https://www.samishtribe.nsn.us/

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