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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.

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  • Our Favorite Objects: The Thousand-Year Rose (Classic)

    We visit the world’s oldest rose, which is so tough that it survived being bombed in World War II.   All week, we’re featuring the stories behind a few of our favorite things – from ancient hams to mummified fingers. Want to tell us...

  • Our Favorite Objects: The Spritz Cookie Gravestone (Classic)

    We explore the unexpected combination of recipes and graves through the story of Naomi Odessa Miller Dawson’s spritz cookies. All week, we’re featuring the stories behind a few of our favorite things – from ancient hams to mummified...

  • Our Favorite Objects: Galileo's Middle Finger (Classic)

    Dylan goes on a journey to examine the preserved middle finger of astronomer, physicist, and engineer Galileo Galilei. All week, we’re featuring the stories behind a few of our favorite things – from ancient hams to mummified fingers....

  • Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (Classic)

    Created by a volcanic eruption in 2015, this island in the South Pacific no longer exists… but we chat with a person who got to see it before it disappeared. LEARN MORE about Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai in this Reuters article and see it...

  • Shamanism: The Timeless Religion

    We talk with anthropologist Manvir Singh, whose research on shamanism took him from the small island of Siberut to study current practitioners, to exploring prehistoric cave art in France. It’s the subject of his new book, “Shamanism:...

  • Dylan’s Mailbag: Traveling With Kids, Girls’ Trips, and Pedal Pubs

    Dylan has just returned from a month-long trip with his family, and he and the gang answer listener questions about traveling with kids and more.  Have a question for Dylan? Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message. You can...

  • This Is Your Commute

    Listeners share stories about how they commute to work and back home as they also reflect on how special their neighborhood is too.  Plus: We wanna hear stories about your first time traveling with your kids.  Tell us about that...

  • Time Travel with a Parking Lot Dinosaur

    Earlier this year a geologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science got a very unusual phone call. A construction crew ripping up the museum’s parking lot had found… dinosaur bones. We dig deeper and get a taste of what it would...

  • Gunnar Schonbeck Exhibit (Classic)

    For years, students at Bennington College snuck into a locked room for a glimpse of strange and magical instruments created by professor Gunnar Schonbeck. Today, we join his orchestra.  READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:...

  • The World’s Largest Collection of Two-Headed Calves

    Henry S. Rosenthal is the owner of what is likely the world’s largest collection of two-headed taxidermied calves. The collection is in San Francisco, and you can reach out to Henry at deepgort@gmail.com to make arrangements to see it.

  • America’s Oldest Tofu Shop

    Ota Tofu in Portland, Oregon is the oldest tofu shop in the United States. Two brothers opened the shop in 1911 and even today their tofu is still made the old-fashioned way, using a labor-intensive process that is difficult to find...

  • It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

    From opera singers to strange noises emitting from air conditioners, listeners share stories about their unusual neighbors.  Plus:  We want to hear stories about your commute. Are there people that you see on the train platform...