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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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Glaum Egg Ranch May 25, 2021

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A ranch on the outskirts of Aptos, California features a magical machine that dispenses music, joy, and 18 of the freshest eggs in the land.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/egg-vending-machine-at-glaum-ranch-aptos-california

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Spite Houses May 24, 2021

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Home is where the grudge is. We survey a special kind of architecture that is both petty and personal.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/spite-houses-around-the-world

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Hitler’s Toilet May 20, 2021

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It roamed the seas, served an evil dictator, survived a war, and ended up in a New Jersey auto-repair shop bathroom.

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Mafra Palace Library Bats May 19, 2021

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A grand library in Portugal has some unexpected nighttime caretakers -- tiny bats. Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mafra-palace-library-bats

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Wonders in Your Backyard May 18, 2021

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You’ve been leaving us messages about the strange and wondrous places in your towns, like the world’s largest tin soldier, the home of the first public beach and a phone connecting us to people we’ve lost.

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Disgusting Food Museum May 17, 2021

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Open your minds and steel your stomachs as we go to a food museum in Sweden that challenges what exactly makes something delicious… or disgusting.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/disgusting-food-museum

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Basilica Cistern May 13, 2021

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An old friend takes us under the streets of Instanbul and into an encounter with Medusa.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/basilica-cisterns-istanbul

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National Museum of Health and Medicine May 12, 2021

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A boxy, Brutalist building in Silver Spring, Maryland contains one of the greatest collections of disease, injury, and human body bits ever assembled.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/national-museum-of-health-and-medicine

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Mike the Headless Chicken May 11, 2021

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The strangest, most famous resident from this Colorado town happens to be a headless fowl.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mike-the-headless-chicken

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Puffin Patrol May 10, 2021

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We go to the Westman Islands off the southern coast of Iceland and meet the heroes who save young birds that have wandered from their nests every summer.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-largest-puffin-colony

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