A toxic lake high in the Andes mountains in Argentina is home to microbes that provide a window to our planet’s past — and a key to securing its future.

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Real Good is a podcast with the mission to highlight real people out in the world - trying to make it better. This excerpt features the Real Good hosts and Goalsetter CEO Tanya Van Court discussing financial literacy. The show is powered by US Bank.
 

Visit https://www.stitcher.com/show/real-good to listen to the show's fourth season.

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Kasanka National Park in Zambia hosts one of the largest – and most mysterious! – animal migrations on the planet.

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Medellín Cartel founder Pablo Escobar built himself a sort of Jurassic Park-meets-Disney World resort with drug money. He called it Hacienda Nápoles. Now it’s overrun by Hippos.

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Thompson’s Ice House in Bristol, Maine is one of the only places in the United States where people gather every winter to take part in the age-old process of harvesting ice from a frozen pond. This “Small Town-Big Story” episode is produced in partnership with GoUSA TV.

To watch the video, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqxWG55-Mf8

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Atlas contributors bring listeners stories from spooky locations they’ve visited and which continue to haunt them. 

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These cakes had a particular ingredient that some believe protected them from witchery - and sparked one of the best-known witch hunts in United States history. 

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With Halloween just around the corner Jonathan Carey and Michelle Cassidy of the Atlas Places Team bring you two spooky legends of The Mothman from Point Pleasant, West Virginia and a potentially ghoulish forest in the Transylvanian Region of Romania.

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The Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki has been home to an infestation of Chilean recluse spiders for more than 50 years.

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Producer Johanna Mayer visits Houdini’s grave in Queens, NY and goes searching for evidence of the great beyond. To hear another take on Spiritualism check out our earlier episode - Cassadaga with Jamie Loftus.

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The Atlas Obscura Podcast is launching a week of spooky-themed stories ahead of Halloween. We begin with Jamie Loftus’ newest podcast about Cassadaga, a small town in central Florida that is one of the last great bastions of a Victorian era religion called Spiritualism.

Check out some of Jamie’s work:

GHOST CHURCH

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ghost-church-by-jamie-loftus/id1619557591
My Year in MENSA -https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-year-in-mensa/id1492147103

And check out AO’s podcast on Lily Dale, another contemporary spiritualist community

LILY DALE

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-lily-dale-spiritualist-community

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cassadaga

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The fossils of Wadi al-Hitan (Valley of the Whales) in Egypt give us a glimpse of a remarkable evolutionary history. 

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Producer Johanna Mayer travels to Times Square in NYC,  in search of a particular sound that may sometimes go overlooked.

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This memorial marks the life of a pup who sparked riots over animal rights issues in London, England. 

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This giant limestone cave outside of St. Louis, MO. is home to a combination of kitsch and world-class scenery.

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The San Diego Automotive Museum in California contains one man’s dream...of creating the ultimate road trip car. 

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/louie-mattars-fabulous-car

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Some say this little burbling creek is “The deadliest body of water on Earth.”

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In 1820 a group of Black Americans set off to make a home in Africa. They landed in Providence Island and set the stage for the development of the country Liberia.

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The Burger King in Kayenta, AZ is home to a small museum dedicated to a group of Native American veterans who developed an unbreakable secret code during WWII.

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/burger-king-navajo-code-talkers-display

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Science communication superhero Emily Graslie shares how a pair of severed wolf heads helped her fall in love with science, about the road trip she took back to the beginning of time, and why she’s now looking for wonder in her own backyard.

Learn more about Emily Graslie (and watch her bug videos!): http://www.emilygraslie.com/

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This former limestone mine in Kansas City, MO has been turned into a 55,000,000 square-foot industrial park and storage facility.

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/subtropolis

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A mind-tripping place where the art stands out not because of what's on  them but what's in  them. 

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Iconic musician Fela Kuti declared his home in Lagos, Nigeria, an independent state. He called it Kalakuta - and in 1977 it was invaded by the Nigerian Army. 

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A map in the archives of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library in Portland, OR may be the key to finding buried treasure that has yet to be found. 

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/buried-treasure-portland-oregon

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The history of this 150-year-old immersive painting at the Atlanta History Museum features a scheming promoter, the cast of Gone with the Wind, Atlanta’s first Black mayor,  and the voice of Darth Vader himself - and shows how our interpretations of art reflect the time in which we live.  This episode is produced in partnership with Discover Atlanta.

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/atlanta-cyclorama

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The Endangered Wolf Center in Eureka, Missouri was founded by zoologist and wildlife TV host Marlin Perkins and was home to an extraordinary wolf who gives us hope for the future of wolf survival. 

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A listener takes us to a town on the edge of the longest undefended border in the world.

US-Canada border regulations have been updated since this episode first aired: https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/services/covid/menu-eng.html

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For more than 40 years Selma Miriam and Noel Furie have maintained the Bloodroot Feminist Vegetarian Restaurant and Bookstore as a place where women from all over the world can gather, share ideas, and share meals.

Visit Bloodroot: https://www.bloodroot.com/about

Learn more about the Feminist Restaurant Project: http://www.thefeministrestaurantproject.com/

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Oyotunji is an African Village with real homes and real community founded in the 1970s and located in the US - just an hour south of Charleston, South Carolina. 

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/against-the-odds-a-40year-old-west-african-village-in-south-carolina-has-thrived

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The 1980s birthed a gleaming creature that spread its wings of scrap wood and glass over the intersection of two iconic Brooklyn, NY neighborhoods for thirty years. 

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/broken-angel

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