The Atlas Obscura Podcast

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The Boiling River Jul 29, 2021

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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?

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The Village Where Every Person’s Name Is a Song Jul 28, 2021

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In Kongthong, India, every person’s name is a unique song, composed by their mother within a week of their birth, part of a centuries-old tradition.

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The Kalamazoo Gals of the Old Gibson Guitar Factory Jul 27, 2021

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The story of the women who stepped up to produce thousands of guitars during World War II, only to be written out of the history.

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The Family Tree Jul 26, 2021

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A listener’s voicemail sent us searching for the story of a very special -- and giant -- oak tree Peoria, Illinois, and the family of arborists who cared for it.

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Beale Treasure Jul 22, 2021

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Grab your pickaxes, your shovels, and your code breaking supercomputers because today we’re going on a treasure hunt.

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Kilwa Kisiwani Jul 21, 2021

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We dig through more than 1,000 years of dirt, history, colonialism, and myth on the Swahili Coast.

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Oh The Places We Could Go! Jul 20, 2021

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There are tens of thousands of entries in the Atlas -- today we meet the people who sift through them.

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Josephine Baker’s Chateau Jul 19, 2021

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Writer and travel educator Tracey Friley tells the story of the glamorous life of entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist, Josephine Baker and the pilgrimages women still make to her chateau.

Learn more: www.traceyfrileytravel.com

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Sputnik IV Crash Site Jul 15, 2021

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Typically, space junk ends up deep in the Pacific Ocean. This is the story of when it plunged back to earth … onto a street in small-town Wisconsin.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sputnik-crash-site

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Spacecraft Cemetery Jul 14, 2021

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Where does space stuff go after it dies? To this spot deep, deep in the Pacific Ocean.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/spacecraft-cemetery

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