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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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Wild Chocolate with Rowan Jacobsen Mar 28, 2023

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Dylan chats with Rowan Jacobsen, a food journalist and host of the podcast called OBSESSION: Wild Chocolate. And he takes us on a journey that follows his multiyear quest into the Amazon rainforest to learn more about a mythical chocolate that has a dark history and the potential to save parts of the rainforest.

LEARN MORE: Check out Rowan's podcast here.

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Great Balls of Twine with the Places Team Mar 27, 2023

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Jonathan Carey and Michelle Cassidy of the Atlas Places Team bring us stories about the biggest balls of twine. Plus, a special guest adds an additional tangle to the tale.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/world-s-largest-ball-of-twine

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Clown Motel (Classic) Mar 24, 2023

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Tonopah, Nevada is home to the Clown Motel - an inn on the edge of the desert that’s packed with statues and figurines of Clowns. The eerie and fully-functioning inn is also a labor of love.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/clown-motel

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The Pennsylvania Firefly Festival (Classic) Mar 23, 2023

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The deep woods of Pennsylvania hold a phenomena that has drawn attention from scientists and people around the world, and was almost recently destroyed. To learn more about the Pennsylvania Firefly Festival visit https://www.pafireflyevents.org/.

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The Shrek Donkey of Barron Park (Classic) Mar 22, 2023

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We visit a park in Palo Alto, California, home of the world’s most famous donkey.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-donkeys-of-barron-park-palo-alto-california

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Cisternerne (Classic) Mar 21, 2023

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A massive 19th-century reservoir under the city of Copenhagen has been repurposed as a contemporary art cave. We venture inside to learn more about its history, and bask in the incredible acoustics of the space.

Visit Cisternerne and Frederiksberg Museerne: https://frederiksbergmuseerne.dk/da/

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

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Zone Rouge (Classic) Mar 20, 2023

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A swath of land in Northern France still bears scars of the destruction of World War I. Destruction so bad that, in some cases, humans have never been allowed to return.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/zone-rouge

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Tiny Doors of Atlanta (Classic) Mar 17, 2023

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As part of Women’s History Month, we're sharing some episodes from the archive including this story about mysterious doors scattered throughout Atlanta. They dare you to imagine what might be found on the other side.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tiny-doors-atl

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Blurred lines with Stacy Horn Mar 16, 2023

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Writer Stacy Horn tells us about a period in American history when the study of psychic phenomena and the paranormal was serious business at places like Stanford and Duke University. And she reveals the story of J.B. Rhine and Louisa Rhine, a scholarly couple who attempted to find the line where science ended and the unbelievable began. Horn is the author of Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory.

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Manuscript Writing Cafe Mar 15, 2023

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We go to Tokyo, to a particular place that is both nemesis and best friend to all those procrastinators out there. (Yes, we’re looking at you :)

LEARN MORE: The Manuscript Writing Cafe is open Saturdays and Sundays and you can reserve your seat online.

https://koenji-sankakuchitai.blog.jp/ManuscriptWritingCafe/

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