Author: Ms. R.

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit Post Office Bay, on the Galapagos Islands. The post office runs on luck and the goodwill of visitors, and has a knack for bringing strangers together. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you to an incredible site, and along the way you’ll meet……

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At the greatest dinner party on earth, one thing is always on the menu: fireworks, with a side of dessert. At the end of every Nobel banquet, held yearly on December 10, servers descend a grand staircase in Stockholm’s City Hall bearing platters of sweets, surrounded by spitting sparklers. It’s an appropriately grand finale for an event celebrating groundbreaking scientists, artists, and peacemakers. Perhaps it’s also a tongue-in-cheek reference to the person who paid for the festivities. It’s suspected……

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In March 2020, when India was on a COVID-19 lockdown, wedding photographer couple Shilpi Sharma and Kailash Bhatt built a photography studio in Rishikesh, a town in the foothills of the northern state of Uttarakhand. They had just moved from Delhi, where they lived in a two-room rented apartment, to be closer to organic farm produce, fresh air, and open space. For Kailash, who lived in Uttarakhand when he was young, the move was also about missing the dishes……

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Tucked away on a busy street of Kennedy Town, Sun Hing is known for serving up heaping steamer baskets of fluffy char siu bao (barbecued pork buns), curried tripe, spare ribs, and Cantonese sponge cake to night owls starting at 3:00 a.m. every day. By the time the sun rises, the place is packed with customers ranging from elderly people sipping tea to students from the nearby university and still-tipsy revelers seeking late-night bites. Opened by Chui Hoi in 1973……

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A magnificent piece of Victorian engineering can be found hidden just outside the Nottingham city center.  Completed in May 1855, built originally to allow horse-drawn carriages access to the private enclosed village The Park estate. Commissioned to architects Thomas Holland to design and build. The Park Tunnel never fulfilled the expectations of being the main thoroughfare over other routes.  You have to have a keen eye to locate the obscure access. Make your way up Derby Road making your……

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Deep in the historic heart of Palermo, a dragon stirs. A drumbeat thuds through the darkened room—once part of a luxury hotel—as the creature takes flight. The dragon lurches toward our armor-clad hero, Orlando, but he is no match for a knight. Orlando’s sword slices through the beast and its body falls to the ground. Its bloodied head dangles by a string above the stage. Off to one side, 10-year-old Martina Bumbello turns the crank of the puppet theater’s……

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The Phillip Island Koala Conservation Reserve is a peaceful sanctuary in the heart of Phillip Island, which allows visitors to come face to face with koalas in their natural habitats. This park is unique and special in that it helps koalas who have suffered at the hands of natural disasters or from the effects of human encroachment into the natural areas of Australia. It is thought that there are around 80,000 of these unique animals left in Australia and……

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