307: Our Weird and Wonderful World with Dylan Thuros Co-Founder of Atlas Obscura

National Park After Dark

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Atlas Obscura began as a website and global community to catalog and celebrate the world's unusual and obscure places, stories and foods. Since 2009, it has expanded to include six books, group adventures around the world, a Youtube Series and a podcast! Today, we have the immense pleasure of speaking with Dylan Thuras, co-founder of Atlas Obscura to talk all things weird and wonderful.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to National Park After Dark. I'm Cassie. And I'm Danielle. And today's
0:24.8	episode is I'm losing my mind. Yes. Danielle is a very, we're both very excited for this episode,
0:31.1	but Danielle in particular is very excited. There's some, there's some moments in life that just come full circle and this is
0:38.9	definitely one of them. Yeah. And it's so funny because we just had, we just did our monthly
0:44.5	live stream a couple days ago over on Patreon and Atlas Obscura got brought up for legitimately
0:51.7	the first time in a live stream. And we were about to have
0:57.8	this episode that is all about Atlas Obscira. And we're talking to Dylan, one of the co-founders
1:03.6	of Atlas Obscira. And I wanted to say it's so bad. I wanted to be like, you don't even know.
1:08.7	We did hint at it, though. If you join our live
1:11.6	streams, we like to drop some little sneak peeks to things pretty often, I would say, and we
1:17.4	definitely hinted that this episode was coming out pretty soon. Yeah, I can't keep my mouth shut.
1:23.3	So, if you're a Patreon member, you know everything.
1:28.9	Literally, quite literally.
1:29.5	Yeah.
1:33.6	Well, we're super excited because as you said, we're talking to Dylan Thuris today.
1:37.1	He is the co-founder and creative director of Atlas Obscura. And if you know anything about Atlas Obscura, it began as a website and global community to catalog and celebrate the world's
1:45.4	unusual and obscure places, stories and foods, which it still does, but since its inception in 2009,
1:53.3	it has significantly grown. The Atlas Obscura world has expanded to include six books,
1:58.5	including titles like Atlas Obscura Wildlife, the Explorers Library,
2:03.6	and Gastro Obscura.
2:05.2	They host adventures around the world, have a YouTube series, and they have a podcast that we
2:09.7	were recently on.
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