Hunting for Meteorites with Steve Arnold (Classic)
Today we're powering up our metal detectors and keeping a very close eye on the surface of the earth as we set out in the hunt for meteorite...
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The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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 T...
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20 of 1,453 episodesThe Slowest Concert in Germany
There’s an organ in Halberstadt, Germany that began to play in 2001 and will continue to play until the year 2640. This is the John Cage Org...
The Lighthouse Keeper (Classic)
We go to Fayerweather Island, off the coast of Connecticut, and get the story of Kate Moore, one of the first recorded woman lighthouse keep...
Is This The World’s Most Dangerous Toy?
The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has a very unusual artifact in its collection: an object that’s been called “the world...
Spooky Szn: Elmer McCurdy’s Nine Lives
On Fridays this October, we're surfacing strange, incredible, sometimes haunted and sometimes spooky places. This episode takes us back to19...
Looking Toward the Sky with Summer Ash (Classic)
Telescope tourist, rocket scientist and STEAM educator Summer Ash gives us the nitty gritty on the V.L.A. - a 22-mile telescope in New Mexic...
The Mutter Museum
Today, we go to the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, and meet the two historians who are working to better connect us to the mysteries and bea...
The 9/11 Tour Guide
Christina Staton is a tour guide of the 9/11 Memorial. And today, she guides us to tell us about the overlooked places, memorials and sculpt...
The Fresh Kills Landfill of New York City
Today, with the help of Ben Naddaff-Hafrey from Revisionist History, we’re going to Fresh Kills in Staten Island: a pile of trash that grew...
Kelly's Picks: A Visit to the Museum of Broken Relationships
All week, host Kelly McEvers surfaces some of her favorite episodes from the archive. Here's today's story: This episode will break your hea...
Kelly's Picks: The Integratron
All week, host Kelly McEvers surfaces some of her favorite episodes from the archive. Here's today's story: In August 1953, airstrip operato...
Kelly's Picks: Alone on the Alaskan Frontier
All week, host Kelly McEvers surfaces some of her favorite episodes from the archive. Here's today's story: What drives a person to live in...
Kelly's Picks: The Last Baldwin House
All week, host Kelly McEvers surfaces some of her favorite episodes from the archive. Here's today's story: James Baldwin’s former home in t...
Kelly's Picks: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
All week, host Kelly McEvers surfaces some of her favorite episodes from the archive. Here's today's story: One of the many objects that wen...
Is Alton, Illinois America's Most Haunted Small Town?
Alton, Illinois has been called the most haunted small town in America. It’s a place where practically every building has its own ghost stor...
It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Classic)
From opera singers to strange noises emitting from air conditioners, listeners share stories about their unusual neighbors.
Love Thy Neighbor (Classic)
We share stories about our neighbors – from an unusual pet in Maryland, to an out-of-place front yard in Brooklyn, to a beekeeper with a sec...
The Seed Huntress
Dive into the invisible world of seeds, Sefra Alexandra, the self-titled “Seed Huntress.” She tells us about her global mission to preserve...
The Mothman!
Today we venture (with flashlights on) into the TNT area, a vast abandoned munitions factory in Point Pleasant, West Virginia – where, in th...
White Squirrels of Olney
Olney, Illinois is your quintessential Midwestern small town. It’s in the middle of farm country - a place you might drive right past. But p...