The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Atlas Obscura podcast team is from all over America. So, in celebration of Atlas Obscura’s upcoming book, “America Obscura,” members of the AO team recall their favorite places and traditions from their home state. We hear about everything from a miniature panorama of NYC, to a diving competition, to an unsettling relic in a chapel.
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On Fridays this October, we're surfacing strange, incredible and sometimes spooky stories.. At Denmark’s largest haunted house attraction, it’s not just about the screams. Researchers are studying the effects – good and bad – that fear has on humans
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-science-of-horror-fear



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The James J Walker Park is a local New York City park in Greenwich Village. But what people might not know is that there are 10,000 dead bodies buried underground. In today’s episode, writer and tour guide Christina Ray Stanton tells us how a cemetery becomes a park, reveals some of the disturbing things that’ve happened there and gives us the story of the man who made sure we remember it all.

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This museum in Stone Mountain, Georgia is home to thousands of chairs – not for sitting, and not dollhouse furniture, but miniature chairs “with a different purpose,” as the museum’s founder describes them.
Check out their website: https://museumofminiaturechairs.com/



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The Atlas Obscura team answers the question:
If time travel were possible, what time period would you visit and what place would you like to see most?
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