Podcast

In our first extended episode, we sit down with the show's creator and host John Wilson.

In San Francisco, learn all about the history of showgirls.

Does the place you grew up have any unique traditions? We would love to hear from you.

We play two truths and a lie—Atlas Obscura style.

We ask the legendary travel writer and presenter about the three places that have changed his life.

Want to relive the eclipse? Then, listen up.

What does our fascination with mortality reveal about who we are?

The New York Times' former "52 Places" reporter dives into the ups and downs of traveling for an entire year.

A deep dive into "the Venice of Africa," a waterway-filled village in Benin.

Here lies the world's largest collection of ventriloquist dummies.

The award-winning astrophysicist and folklorist takes us on a tour of the Milky Way.

The astrophysicist's search for an interstellar object led him to the bottom of the ocean floor.

Would you recognize what can only be heard but not seen?

Meet the woman behind the light in the dark.

A bank robber’s burial site is still six feet deep with mystery.

Sit down with the host of “Abandoned: All-American Ruins” to hear what exploring abandoned spaces taught him.

For the last 40 years, Hotel Spaander in the Dutch fishing village of Volendam received almost daily letters from a mysterious man in Japan.

Hear what happens when a man tried to smuggle in 22 giant African land snails into the United States.