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pigs

Podcast: Big Apple Inn

A humble hole-in-the-wall with a serious civil rights history.
March 6, 2023
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eccentric homes

Podcast: The A. Everett Austin Facade House

How does such a grand mansion only have one room?
March 2, 2023
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state parks

Podcast: The Discovery Tree

Big stump, bigger movement.
March 1, 2023
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civil rights

Podcast: The Hampton House

Inside the childhood home of a civil rights icon.
February 28, 2023
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dolls

Podcast: Nellie Mae Rowe's Playhouse

Inside an artistic, whimsical playhouse.
February 27, 2023
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monks

Podcast: Thomas Merton’s Hermitage

This little house in Kentucky is where the famous rebel monk tried to get away from the world.
February 23, 2023
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podcast

Podcast: Jadeite Cabbage

A tiny stone cabbage has a big backstory stretching from Beijing’s Forbidden City to Taipei's National Palace Museum.
February 22, 2023
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pollution

Podcast: Newtown Creek Nature Walk

One man in Brooklyn—armed with a homemade boat and an artistic vision—helped transform one of America's most polluted industrial waterways.
February 21, 2023
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podcast

Podcast: The Gankutsu Hotel

In Japan, a farmer's unfinished art project lies in ruins—but a dedicated duo are determined to keep his legacy alive.
February 20, 2023
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moth

Podcast: Cactoblastis Memorial Cairn

A moth once saved Australia from a cactus crisis.
February 16, 2023
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duels

Podcast: Pushkin’s Duel

How a real-life confrontation seemed to mirror a literary masterpiece.
February 15, 2023
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library

Podcast: The Henry Miller Memorial Library

In Big Sur, California, a library that's not really a library.
February 13, 2023
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war

Podcast: The San Juan Island Pig War

How, yes, a pig almost started a war between the United States and Britain.
February 9, 2023
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dinosaurs

Podcast: Creston Dinosaur

The roadside attraction is thought to be the first enormous concrete dino in North America.
February 8, 2023
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weather

Podcast: The Rainmaker

Was Charles Hatfield a scientist or a con man?
February 7, 2023
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revolution

Podcast: Marchand Dessalines

An entire town in Haiti memorializes one man and his historic revolution.
February 6, 2023
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movie theater

Podcast: The Westgate With Rico Gagliano

The inside story of a flop that changed one theater's history.
February 2, 2023
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psychiatry

Podcast: Freud Museum London

Lie back on what might be the world's most famous psychoanalytic couch.
February 1, 2023
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galileo

Podcast: Galileo’s Middle Finger

Investigating a renowned scientist's iconic digit.
January 31, 2023
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diplomacy

Podcast: Tangier American Legation Museum

In North Africa, the first American-owned property on foreign soil.
January 30, 2023
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bears

Podcast: Rae Wynn-Grant and the Bear

A wildlife ecologist specializing in large carnivores unfolds a mystery for listeners.
January 26, 2023
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ice castles

Podcast: Empress Anna’s Ice Palace

The spectacle in St. Petersburg, Russia, was the site of an incredibly strange wedding.
January 25, 2023
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podcast

Podcast: Lee’s Legendary Marbles and Collectables

This Nebraska destination is a pilgrimage of sorts for serious collectors, and a curiosity for the casual passerby.
January 24, 2023
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vikings

Podcast: Urnes Stave Church

This intricately carved church is one of Norway’s great treasures of architecture.
January 23, 2023