The Atlas Obscura Podcast

In honor of Lucia Day on December 13, we’re diving into the origins of a Swedish holiday t... more

About 400 miles south of New Zealand, on the subantarctic Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, ... more

Gastro Obscura’s senior editor Sam O’Brien returns to the podcast to go deeper with us on ... more

We visit the taverns of colonial America to take a frothy sip of the hot ale flip and how ... more

Empress Anna’s Ice Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia was the site of an incredibly strange ... more

Mexico City is known for its museum and art scene. The collection at El Museo del Juguete ... more

This is how you do Christmas in the desert. Every year, the city of Chandler, Arizona crea... more

Seltzer has been around for thousands of years. And one factory in Brooklyn, New York call... more

Around 60 people live full time in the town of Helvetia, West Virginia. But once a year, t... more

In the early 1920s, walking around Orange, New Jersey at night, you might have seen young ... more

When you think of Orlando, Florida and the area around it, a certain cartoon mouse might c... more

You can learn a lot about a person from their hands. In this episode, we hear the story of... more

Gastro Obscura writer Sam O’Brien takes co-host Kelly McEvers on a tour of the world’s str... more

Carpets are everyday objects we rarely stop to think about. But they’re far more than deco... more

When Elliott Long’s dad started planting a forest of “bottle trees” with trunks of steel a... more

Atop a mountain in a picturesque Colorado town is the frozen corpse of a Norwegian grandpa... more

Today, we’re sharing an episode from The Detour: a show about going places, that actually ... more

We chat with writer Alessio Perrone about what he learned from the people who hunt for Ita... more

Char Adams is the author of Black Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore. Sh... more

In 1905, a Bulgarian named Stamen Grigorov made a discovery. Inspired by a wave of researc... more