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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

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 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.SiriusXM Essais et carnets de voyage Sciences sociales
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  • Theatricum Botanicum (Classic)

    Theatricum Botanicum (Classic)
    Sep 12 2025

    A once-blacklisted Hollywood star created a magical theater in Topanga Canyon, California, that still endures and inspires today.

    READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/theatricum-botanicum
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    12 min
  • Sweden’s Last Night Watchman

    Sweden’s Last Night Watchman
    Sep 11 2025

    In Ystad, Sweden, every night at 9pm a night watchman scans the horizon for fires from the tower of St Mary’s Church, and sounds his trumpet to let the city know it is safe. This tradition goes back to the Medieval Ages. The Night Watchman of Ystad is one of the last keeping his tradition, and today his role has taken on an even bigger significance. Author and journalist Eliot Stein takes us through the evolution of the night watchman.


    Read more in Eliot’s book, Custodians of Wonder.
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    26 min
  • Who Put a Crack in The Glen Canyon Dam?

    Who Put a Crack in The Glen Canyon Dam?
    Sep 10 2025

    Utah bookseller Ken Sanders has spent his life fighting the Glen Canyon Dam. Inspired by a band of cowboy ecoterrorists in his favorite Western novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, Ken's used his own blend of hijinks and illegal actions to free the Colorado River. For years he thought he'd failed. But these days, he sees a glimmer of hope that something big is about to change.

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    15 min
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