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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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A Return to Recipe Graves Dec 19, 2023

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Gastro Obscura’s senior editor Sam O’Brien returns to the podcast to go deeper with us on her strange beat – recipes etched into gravestones. We probe how food can help heal and remember those we’ve lost.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: Sam has written a bunch about recipe gravestones, and has even been on the podcast before. Read and listen to more of her work at these links:

The Family Recipes That Live On in Cemeteries

Podcast: The Spritz Cookie Gravestone

Podcast: Grandma Ida’s Nut Rolls Gravestone

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Old City Hall Station Dec 18, 2023

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A producer takes a detour for a glimpse of what some call New York’s worst kept secret – a train station that’s been shut down and sealed away for nearly a century.

MORE: Visit the New York Transit Museum’s website to learn how to become a member and book a tour of the station.

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Pando the Trembling Giant (Classic) Dec 15, 2023

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Fishlake National Forest is home to the biggest organism by mass on the planet - but this giant is shrinking and an usual group has banded together to help defend it.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pando-the-trembling-giant

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Gourdlandia Dec 14, 2023

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This magical wonderland in Ithaca, New York is devoted entirely—almost spiritually—to this unusual and versatile fruit. It's also the brainchild of Graham Ottoson, who is teaching an Atlas Obscura course on gourds. Listeners get 15% off by using code GOURDLOVE during registration. End credit music in this episode is from Alexander Fals (ngoni + vocals), Hayley Dayis (vocals), and Manuel Solarte (percussion). If you like what you heard, you can listen to more of their songs here.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gourdlandia

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New Bedford Whaling Museum Dec 13, 2023

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An oozing whale skeleton isn't the only attraction at this Massachusetts museum. Hear how a producer’s visit revealed some surprising facts about an industry that helped enrich a city and was inclusive well before diversity became a buzzword.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-oozing-whale-skeleton-of-new-bedford-new-bedford-massachusetts

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Knoxville Weather Kiosk Dec 12, 2023

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Back in the day, people were so hungry for info about the weather that they would stand in line all day to get a glimpse of a series of kiosks placed in towns across the country. We go to Tennessee to hear the story of one.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/knoxville-weather-kiosk

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Ol Pejeta Rhino Cemetery Dec 11, 2023

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A small cemetery in the grasslands of Kenya serves as a way to honor one of the most endangered animals in the world – the rhino – and elevate the plight of a species on the brink.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/ol-pejeta-rhino-cemetery

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The Super Museum Dec 08, 2023

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A midwest city has embraced what it means to be the namesake hometown of one very famous superhero. And at its center is a museum that holds the carefully cultivated collection of one superfan.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/super-museum-metropolis

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Sunny Jim Cave (Classic) Dec 07, 2023

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We follow a long set of wooden stairs deep underground to a sea cave with a mysterious and colorful past, and take in a spectacular, hidden view of the Pacific Ocean in La Jolla.

Learn more about The Cave Store: https://www.cavestore.com/

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sunny-jim-cave-store

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The Great Stalacpipe Organ (Classic) Dec 06, 2023

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The Luray Caverns in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia are home to an instrument that draws out the secret sounds of millenia-old stone.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-great-stalacpipe-organ-luray-virginia

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