The Musk Ox Farm in Palmer, Alaska aims to domesticate a species that used to roam the earth at the same time as the wooly mammoth.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/musk-ox-farm

San Juan Sound

Jun 2nd, 2022 13m 35s

San Juan Sound is an iconic studio where musicians, engineers, and quite possibly a music-loving ghost carry on the Island’s musical traditions, which date back hundreds of years. This episode is produced in partnership with Discover Puerto Ric

Forestiere Underground Gardens

May 9th, 2022 13m 19s

This underground oasis in Fresno, California is a winding maze of rooms and passageways filled with lush citrus trees. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/forestiere-underground-gardens

Gnomesville

1 Apr 19th, 2022 12m 29s

A community of kitschy lawn gnomes have taken over an Australian roundabout.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gnomesville

Lake Karachay

Feb 23rd, 2022 9m 35s

Lake Karachay in Ozersk, Russia is the site of a former secret Soviet Union nuclear facility - that’s inspired art despite the little that’s publicly known of the site.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lake-karachay

Organ Stop Pizza

Jan 11th, 2022 13m 48s

The largest theater pipe organ in the world lives in a restaurant in Mesa, Arizona. Phenomenal musicians play requests while diners feast on pizza.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/organ-stop-pizza

Spacecraft Cemetery

1 2 Jul 14th, 2021 17m

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

A Memory Made in Malawi

Apr 27th, 2021 8m 43s

Today we flip the focus from the memorable places we visit to the memorable people we meet on our adventures.

Baobab Fare

Oct 4th, 2023 15m 38s

The story of Chef Hamissi Mamba, whose family sought asylum in the US and years later founded an East African restaurant that serves up a small slice of Burundi in the Motor City. Find out more here.

The Lost Boys of Robber’s Cave

Aug 31st, 2022 16m 17s

In 1954, two groups of boys thought they were going to summer camp. But they’d been recruited for a different kind of summer experience.

Phone Booth on a Roof

Jun 7th, 2022 11m 54s

The City Hall in Lincoln, Illinois has an unusual architectural appendage with a curious history. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/phone-booth-on-a-roof

Upton Chamber

May 4th, 2022 13m 54s

An underground chamber in Upton, MA puzzled some New Englanders while others long knew its ancient origins. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/upton-chamber

Monkey Island

Feb 2nd, 2022 9m 43s

Monkey Island, Cayo, Santigo is an island off the coast of Puerto Rico where more than 1500 imported monkeys have lived and been studied by researchers for decades. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cayo-santiago-monke

Million Dollar Point

1 1 Sep 7th, 2021 13m 32s

We visit Vanuatu in the South Pacific and go underwater to visit a very strange place from a very strange episode at the end of World War. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/million-dollar-point

Beechey Island Graves Part 1

Jun 23rd, 2021 15m 47s

In this two-part series, we venture towards frozen graves tied to an infamous Arctic expedition. We follow two groups of adventurers, separated by more than 170 years, and play witness to the disasters that befell them all.Read More in the Atl

President Heads

Apr 15th, 2021 11m 24s

Giant busts of U.S. presidents are slowly crumbling in a field in Virginia. Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/president-heads

Widow Jane Mine

Mar 16th, 2021 13m 54s

This old cement mine in Rosendale, New York, has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/widow-jane-mine

The Gilbert Baker Mural

3 hours ago 17m 21s

Gilbert Baker’s pride flag design is now a worldwide symbol for LGBT freedom and liberation. Now, his former stomping grounds remember his efforts with a beautiful mural. But there’s more to this pride-filled house than meets the eye. SEE the m

Jadeite Cabbage (Classic)

3 days ago 16m 23s

This tiny stone cabbage has a big backstory stretching from the rich, treasure-laden halls of Beijing’s Forbidden City...through a harrowing wartime escape...to its prized place at the National palace museum in Taipei, Taiwan.READ MORE IN THE A

Roop Kund

4 days ago 28m 47s

Author Doug Preston brings us back into the world of his latest book, The Lost Tomb, with a story of a remote lake in the Himalayas where hundreds of human skeletons were discovered – puzzling scientists and researchers for years.

The Glove Museum

5 days ago 16m 22s

This museum in New York is a recreated 19th century glove making workshop complete with sizing tools, cutting blocks, and irons. It’s also part studio, part exhibition space and the brainchild of a craftsman who dedicated his life to the art o

Grizzly Adams: America’s Mythic Mountain Man

6 days ago 17m 42s

In the 1850s, one anonymous Massachusetts shoemaker became a national celebrity – all by exhibiting his “family” of captured grizzly bears.

In The Heart Of NYC, A Refuge For Birds

7 days ago 13m 17s

A hospital and rehab center for birds in Manhattan started with a woman who just wanted to do all she could to help an injured goose. Decades later, it has become an institution.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/wild-b

The Start of a Language

10 days ago 19m 10s

Places editors Michelle Cassidy and Jonathan Carey bring us stories about two specific languages that were created by people who gave us a glimpse into their worlds and cultures – real and imagined.

Nerding Out on Ancient Queens with Torri Yates-Orr

11 days ago 28m

History buff Torri Yates-Orr gives us the tea on Nefertiti, Cleopatra, and Amanirenas – and explains why we often don’t hear their full stories in history class.