Garden Week: A Sound Garden
An orchard of metal poles sits on a hill overlooking Lake Washington. And when the wind blows, this musical sculpture "sings the world into existence" with its unique sound. This week, we’re celebrati...
21 Apr 15min
Garden Week: Alnwick Poison Garden
The Alnwick Poison Garden in England is a place where stopping and smelling the flowers could actually kill you. The garden is dedicated entirely to plants that are narcotic or deadly. This week, we’...
20 Apr 11min
Bone Vinyl (Classic)
In the Soviet Union, x-rays didn’t just give you a look inside the human body. They also gave you a glimpse of the outside world, thanks to music that was imprinted onto this unassuming medical tool. ...
17 Apr 14min
The World’s Biggest Social Studies Assignment with Paul Barbato
As a young adult, Paul "Barbs" Barbato gave himself perhaps the world's biggest social studies assignment: make a profile of every single one of the 193 UN-recognized countries in the world. Ten years...
16 Apr 24min
Bean There, Baked That
In a storefront in Kearney, Nebraska, Morris Press Cookbooks Store houses a massive "Google of family recipes," chronicling nearly a century of American home-style cuisine. To test the archive, produc...
15 Apr 14min
When In Rome… Accidentally Break the Rules?
We asked you to send us stories about a time you accidentally broke the rules while traveling… and some you really went there. Plus, we want to hear stories about a place you love returning to. Where...
14 Apr 14min
When Kelly McEvers Was In Over Her Head
As a foreign correspondent, Kelly McEvers has found herself detained by the KGB, held up at ISIS checkpoints, and on the front line in Syria. But it was a much more mundane experience that left her fe...
13 Apr 12min
Thomas Merton's Hermitage (Classic)
This little house in New Haven, Kentucky is where Thomas Merton aka profit-poet aka the rebel monk tried to get away from the world. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/thomas-...
10 Apr 16min
