The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura
An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore a new wonder every day, Monday through Thursday. In under 15 minutes, they’ll take you to an incredible place, and along the way, you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Our theme and end credit music is composed by Sam Tyndall.
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May 25, 2021 • 10min
Glaum Egg Ranch
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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
May 24, 2021 • 10min
Spite Houses
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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
May 20, 2021 • 10min
Hitler’s Toilet
It roamed the seas, served an evil dictator, survived a war, and ended up in a New Jersey auto-repair shop bathroom. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
May 19, 2021 • 14min
Mafra Palace Library Bats
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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
May 18, 2021 • 12min
Wonders in Your Backyard
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
May 17, 2021 • 13min
Disgusting Food Museum
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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
May 13, 2021 • 15min
Basilica Cistern
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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
May 12, 2021 • 15min
National Museum of Health and Medicine
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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
May 11, 2021 • 12min
Mike the Headless Chicken
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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
May 10, 2021 • 12min
Puffin Patrol
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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
