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Road Trip Week: Exploring the Borscht Belt with Marisa Scheinfeld Aug 01, 2024

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Dylan is joined by Marisa Scheinfeld, a photographer who has dedicated years to exploring the lost and abandoned properties of the Borscht Belt. A stretch of hundreds of hotels, resorts and summer camps where Jewish Americans would go to escape. Check out more of Marisa’s work here, including her book, The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacation Land.

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Road Trip Week: Listener Stories Jul 31, 2024

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You bring us road trip stories from all over the globe. Along the way, we hear about encounters with wild boars, a visit to a famously large ball of twine and a lifelong friendship that began on the back of motorcycles.

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Road Trip Week: Alone with a Camera in the Desert Jul 30, 2024

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Strap on your hiking boots and say goodbye to your spouse. We’re pulling off the highway and going on a trek through Dinosaur National Monument with photographer Randy Fullbright. To see Randy’s photos for yourself, check out his website or stop by his shop, Fullbright Studios, in Vernal, UT.

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Road Trip Week: Where to Go Jul 29, 2024

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It’s Road Trip Week! Dylan hops in a (virtual) car and embarks on a Great American Road Trip. Along the way, Atlas Obscura staffers recommend their favorite road trip stops – from a strange doll hospital, to a massive sculpture only visible during certain times of year, to a magical desert oasis.

Learn more about our recommendations:

Babyland General Hospital

Roadside America

Spiral Jetty

Drummond Basin

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The Theater of Electricity (Classic) Jul 26, 2024

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Step inside the Theater of Electricity in Boston and learn about the World’s Largest Air-Insulated Van De Graaff Generator.

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Our Lives Through Hollywood’s Eyes Jul 25, 2024

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Writer and journalist Walt Hickey joins Dylan for a conversation about the different ways film and television have impacted us and our real world surroundings, a topic that’s the subject of his new book You Are What You Watch.

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The Arrow Stork Jul 24, 2024

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The story of a stork, a spear and a scientific mystery that led to breakthroughs in the way we understand bird migration.

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A 15,000 Year Old Tree and a Housing Development Jul 23, 2024

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In the California’s Jurupa Valley, residents discovered a treasure in their backyard: a 15,000 year old tree. Now, it may disappear.

Read Shannon Osaka’s article about the Jurupa Oak.

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Meet the Man Who Sets America’s Living Rooms on Fire Jul 22, 2024

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Today we visit the ATF Fire Research Laboratory where investigators recreate arson attacks and analyze burn patterns.

Read more about John Allen and his work at the world's largest fire research laboratory.

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Discovery Hut (Classic) Jul 19, 2024

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Atlas Obscura's Gemma Tarlach shares what it's like to step inside a relic from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and to find traces of a famous lost party of explorers.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/discovery-hut

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