Your Spring Break Travel Stories
We asked you to send us stories about your unforgettable spring break trips. From a U2 concert to a tornado in 1974, you delivered. Plus, we want to hear your stories about the times you’ve accident...
16 Mar 10min
The Red Book (Classic)
In the early 1900s, influential psychologist Carl Jung spent more than a decade documenting the strange images that popped up in his unconscious mind and documenting them all in a beautiful illustrate...
13 Mar 15min
The Family That Tried To Escape History
In 1978, a team of Soviet geologists working deep in the Siberian taiga came across something they never expected to see: a house. As it turned out, they had stumbled on a family that had lived in com...
12 Mar 20min
AO Mailbag: How Shlubby Is Too Shlubby On an Airplane?
Co-host Kelly McEvers and producers Jerome Campbell and Manolo Morales answer questions about places they could live permanently, how to navigate travel as a Type B person when all your friends are Ty...
11 Mar 11min
The Amargosa Opera House
Marta Becket was an artist from New York City. Then in 1967, when she was on a road trip with her husband, she discovered an abandoned social hall in the California desert town of Death Valley Junctio...
10 Mar 16min
Mr. Toilet House
In 2007, the beloved former mayor of Suwon, Korea, demolished the home he and his wife had lived in for 30 years and built them a new house shaped like a toilet: curved walls, a toilet seat roof, and ...
9 Mar 15min
The Grave of XYZ (Classic)
We go to Deep River, Connecticut – where the story of a botched bank robbery more than 100 years ago has taken on a life of its own as an urban legend. MORE: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-gr...
6 Mar 11min
The Mirror That Reveals Your Truest Self
There is a mirror said to reveal the truest, most precise reflection of oneself. It’s called the Aranmula Kannadi. The tradition of mirror-making has been passed down for generations by self-taught ar...
5 Mar 21min
