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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & 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.

Beschikbare afleveringen

  • The Portland Treasure Map (Classic)

    A map in the archives of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library in Portland, Oregon may be the key to finding buried treasure that has yet to be found. This episode was produced in partnership with Travel Portland.

  • The World’s Largest Time Capsule

    In 1975, a man in Seward, Nebraska dug a gigantic hole in his yard and made the world’s largest time capsule. On July 4, 2025, the capsule was opened.

  • Dylan’s Mailbag: Solo Travel

    Dylan and producers Johanna and Amanda answer listener questions about solo travel. Have a question for Dylan? Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message. You can also record a voice memo and email it to us at...

  • Nue (Classic)

    A Seattle restaurant pushes diners to eat beyond their borders through its embrace of global street foods.

  • Exploring the Pan-American Highway with Pati Jinich

    The Pan-American Highway is considered the longest road in the world – it stretches nearly 20,000 miles, from Alaska to Argentina. In her new docuseries Pati Jinich Explores PanAmericana, Pati talks with people along the famous route...

  • How Polar Explorers Entertained Themselves

    Early polar explorers faced long nights and dangerous expeditions. To entertain themselves, they wrote and published niche newspapers and periodicals. Atlas Obscura’s community editor Allegra Rosenberg reads an essay exploring this...

  • The Last Limburger Plant in America

    Chalet Cheese Cooperative in Monroe, Wisconsin is the last cheese plant left in America that makes the ultra-stinky Limburger cheese: a cheese that inspires equal parts loving and loathing, has been banned for its assaulting smell, and...

  • Where You Would Spend Your Last Day Before the Apocalypse

    A few weeks ago, the Atlas Obscura staff told us where they would spend their last days before the apocalypse. Now we’re sharing your stories – from a childhood home in a small town in Illinois, to a trip in Eastern Europe, to a...

  • Civic Musical Road (Classic)

    The grooves cut in this road outside Lancaster, CA play the finale of the William Tell Overture.  READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/civic-musical-road

  • The Cigar “Readers” of Cuba

    If you were to visit a cigar factory in Cuba, you’d hear something unexpected: the sound of the daily news report, or maybe a poem or a novel, being read aloud. The cigar “reader” is a tradition held by just a handful of people, and it...

  • The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    One of the many objects that went down with the ship during the sinking of the Titanic was a beautiful, jewel-encrusted edition of a poetry book called the “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.” The Rubaiyat was probably the most famous work of...

  • Ivan the Terra Bus

    In Antarctica, researchers bid farewell to an iconic fixture: a big red bus named Ivan.  Want to learn more about Ivan? Read Allegra Rosenberg’s article all about him.