The Atlas Obscura team shares memorable encounters they’ve had with animals—everything from parakeets to a very special opossum.

An infamous break in the Pan-American Highway has been in and out the news for more than 100 years.

Author Dave Eggers shares the story of a unique family and one of the strangest, slowest moves in history.

A majestic building was once the center of the coffee trade.

Two very special dogs lovingly preserved after death.

Turns out, beefing about bad service really is as old as time.

Every year, lumberjacks and lumberjills from around the world flock to Hayward, Wisconsin, to compete in the Lumberjack World Championships.

More than 200 unconventional instruments are on display at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

From dinosaur parks to a mysterious stone giant.

Explore the mysteries of Mexico's Indigenous healers and Denmark's gruesome witch burnings with Condé Nast Traveler's Women Who Travel Podcast.

Uncover the edible wonders of Asheville's forests and learn to connect with nature's bounty.

A visit with the author of a classic zine about unusual deaths.

The island might be almost completely gone now, but the memory remains.

The surprisingly delicious outcome of a fascist campaign.

How a feud broke new ground for fossil history.

A museum that gives new meaning to the term "hands-on."

A love letter to an unloved Midwestern town.

Pay your respects at the sweetest cemetery in the world.

Step inside the cutest, most cuddly museum in the desert.

For the past 50 years, undergrads at a liberal arts college have had access to a remarkable scientific instrument.

This fallout shelter beneath a West Virginia resort was a state secret until 1992.

Dive into another installment of our listeners' near-death travel experiences.

Long before anyone appeared live at Red Rocks or made The Fillmore shake, there was The Tabor Opera House.

Near a Colorado mountain town, there's the frozen corpse of a Norwegian grandpa. We get the tale of how this came to be.