The Atlas Obscura Podcast

By: SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura
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  • Summary

  • 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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  • Zach Stafford’s Life in Five Places

    Zach Stafford’s Life in Five Places
    Jan 9 2025

    Zach Stafford found great career success at a very young age – he’s a writer, producer, and co-host of the news & culture podcast Vibe Check. His intense work schedule has taken him all over America, and each of the cities and towns he found himself in has shaped him in some way. And through it all, Zach has been searching for a very specific feeling.
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    27 mins
  • Christine's Cell

    Christine's Cell
    Jan 8 2025

    In the year 1329, a woman named Christine Carpenter was enclosed in a tiny cell in the walls of a church in Shere, England. She was expected to spend the rest of her life praying in almost complete isolation. But the reason we know her name is that she did something very unusual – she broke out.

    Learn more about our guest Professor Diane Watt’s work about the lives of medieval women in England, and about St. James’s Church in Shere.

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    16 mins
  • Art on Wheels

    Art on Wheels
    Jan 7 2025

    Dylan and producer Gabby Gladney dive into the colorful world of art cars, from Houston’s epic parades to DIY creations in Minneapolis.

    Then, Dylan talks to his own father about the multiple art cars they’ve had over the years.

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    18 mins

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