Your New Year’s Travel Resolutions
Listeners share their travel resolutions for 2026. Plus, we want to hear stories about interesting or unusual places where you’ve stayed the night. How did you find it? Who did you go with? What made ...
20 Tammi 8min
Tell Us: Wonders in Your Backyard
We’re taking the day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But in the meantime, we want to hear from you. Tell us about the wonders in your backyard. Is there a strange, unusual or surprising place in y...
19 Tammi 44s
Little Lambs, Big Back Story (Classic)
Spring is a popular time to visit Colonial Williamsburg, not least because it’s “lambing season,” the time of year when baby lambs are born and take their first steps (which is obviously very, very cu...
17 Tammi 15min
Fendika Cultural Center (Classic)
The story of the Fendika Cultural Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is the story of Melaku Belay and his journey from homelessness to international acclaim as a community leader.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: ...
16 Tammi 11min
Retracing A Grandfather’s Footsteps
Dawn Anahid MacKeen’s grandfather survived the Armenian genocide, journeying nearly a thousand miles (much of it on foot) out of what is now Turkey and into the Syrian desert. Dawn chronicled his jour...
15 Tammi 22min
My Life in Three Places: Kelly McEvers
Kelly McEvers spent years living and working across the globe as a foreign correspondent, reporting from across Asia, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. Today, she shares three places that ...
14 Tammi 11min
William Buckland’s Poo Table
In the collection of the Lyme Regis Museum in England is a beautiful 19th century tabletop made of delicate, inset stones. The rub is that these stones are… (spoiler alert)... coprolite, or fossilized...
13 Tammi 15min
1000 Places with Caroline Mazel-Carlton
Caroline Mazel-Carlton has visited over 1000 Atlas Obscura Places. But the project was about more than ticking off a list – she says it helped save her life. This episode contains discussion of suicid...
12 Tammi 17min
