Places editors Jonathan and Michele are back again with a few new standout entries to the Atlas … including a spot in Antarctica that’s home to the oldest Martian meteorite and a column in Greece that symbolizes the fear and ritual past generations embraced when faced with their own plague.

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Artist Erika Nelson didn’t set out in life to necessarily become one of the foremost connoisseurs of large things, but her museum in Lucas, KS is nevertheless the ultimate tribute to the roadside attraction.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-largest-collection-of-smallest-versions-of-largest-things

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All summer we’ve been asking you to send us your summer travel stories. Our second installment in the series follows one listener from London to Rome – on foot.

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This secluded museum beats the drum for the preservation of Nepal's musical heritage.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nepali-folk-musical-instrument-museum

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A spinning furnace tucked under the football stadium at the University of Arizona is building giant telescope mirrors.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/richard-f-caris-mirror-laboratory

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This museum’s buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/good-vibrations-antique-vibrator-museum

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All summer we’ve been asking you to send us your summer travel stories. This is the first of a series of listener-powered episodes about this magical season.

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About 400 miles south of New Zealand, on the subantarctic Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, stands a Sitka spruce whose nearest neighbor is 170 miles away.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-loneliest-tree

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We visit Vanuatu in the South Pacific and go underwater to visit a very strange place from a very strange episode at the end of World War.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/million-dollar-point

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We’ve made 100 episodes of the show and figured it was time to hear from the people who make it happen. Enjoy! (And go back and catch up on any episodes you’ve missed) Kulning: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/episode/kulning-82833088 Mafra Library B...

A listener in Lawrence, Kansas takes us on his journey of discovering the secrets of his hometown.

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This site, and the enormous telescope that sits on it, is loved and lost to both scientists and everyday Puerto Ricans.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/arecibo-observatory

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She’s about 8 feet wide and 500 pounds. And her history spans all the way from the stockyards of Chicago...to a nuclear test during the Manhattan Project...to a stadium at the University of Texas at Austin.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/big-bertha-drum

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Sun cannons have been around since the 1600s. But as far as we know, there’s only one left that’s still up and running. We pay it a visit.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/atvidaberg-sun-cannon

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We nearly stump host Dylan Thuras with a seemingly simple question: Who are the top five dead people he would like to go on a road trip with?

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An industrial water tank-turned-concert hall in the high deserts of Colorado is nothing less than a sonic wonder of the world.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-tank-rangely-colorado

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On the tiny Kinmen Island, a bow-tie-shape strip of land between China and Taiwan, sits a giant weaponized wall of sound that still stands--and still broadcasts--today.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/beishan-broadcast-station-art

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There are tens of thousands of entries in the Atlas -- In these episodes, we hear from the people who sift through them, Jonathan and Michele, and hear about their favorites.

Learn more about submitting to the Atlas here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/faq

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The story of the unimaginable destruction of the American Chestnut tree and the group of scientists, academics and tree lovers who are desperately trying to bring them back from the edge of extinction.

LEARN MORE: Visit https://acf.org/ to find out more about this massive conservation effort

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Host Dylan Thuras confronts the good and the bad ways travel changes as you move through different life stages.

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A walk through this scale model has you feeling like a giant, and striding from Baton Rouge to Omaha in an hour.

LEARN MORE about the model and the group trying to revive it, here: https://friendsofmrbm.org/

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A repository in Cambridge, Massachusetts holds over 2,700 pigments that’ve been quietly coloring the world around us since the beginning of human history.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/forbes-pigment-collection

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Our team goes on a quest to find Prospect Park’s elusive -- and perhaps most magical -- resident rodent.

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On the outskirts of Oslo, Norway, there’s a mausoleum some say is the city’s “best kept secret.” It’s the underrated masterpiece of a mostly unknown artist -- an artist who was overshadowed his whole life by his more successful brother.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/emanuel-vigeland-museum

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Artist Rachel Sussman takes us on a tour of the world's oldest living things, which she’s been documenting for 10 years.

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/worlds-oldest-living-things

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We visit a park in Palo Alto, California, home of the world’s most famous donkey.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-donkeys-of-barron-park-palo-alto-california

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Host Dylan Thuras chats with author and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell about a beloved Disney movie, and the deeper questions it raised about the stories we tell ourselves -- and our children -- about places real and imaginary.

Hear more: You can listen to Malcolm Gladwell’s series on The LIttle Mermaid, and other stories in the latest season of Revisionist History here

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A huge rock, teetering on the edge of a hill for thousands of years, brought tourism, fame, and what’s said to be a 100-year curse to the town of Tandil, Argentina

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/la-piedra-movediza

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Does this sprawling mansion in San Jose, California live up to its reputation as one of the most haunted places in the world?

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/winchester-mystery-house

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The story of how humans desperate for water created a lake the size of the city of Los Angeles. And then, how that thirst turned toxic.

Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salton-sea

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