Hi everyone. It's Dylan. Today we are going to do something a little different. You are

going to get to meet two members of the Atlas Obscura team who are a little bit behind

the scenes. They have a job that's actually very close to my heart. Well, I don't want

to say too much. I don't want to give it all away. So to start, I'm just going to ask

you actually to introduce yourselves. What are your names and what do you do at Atlas Obscura?

So my name is Jonathan Carey and I'm the senior associate editor for the Places team here at Atlas

Obscura. And basically I edit, publish, review all new entries submitted through our community,

through various other channels. So I'm one of the stewards of the Atlas of new places to the Atlas.

And I am Michelle Cassidy and I also do that. At the heart of Atlas Obscura is this database of

20,000 plus places. And from day one, it back starting in 2009, basically the way it works is

people can submit places anywhere in the world. And then on our side, we actually look at all of

these things that people send in and say, oh, that one is a good one or that one is like that doesn't

make sense at all. And so we Jonathan, Michelle, that's what they do. They get to see all of the

weird, interesting, amazing places that people send into Atlas Obscura every day. So you both have

been doing this job for a while now. You've seen a lot of places come through the Atlas. I wanted

to ask you both, Michelle, I'll ask you first, was there an entry early on that you were like,

this is crazy. Like this is an amazing place. Was there something that like really caught your

attention when you started doing this work? There was. And you know, it's it's funny because

it is one that on the surface is not one that I think seems particularly crazy or out there.

But as I kept learning about it, it fascinated me. And it's the sattiest cashewsco

national memorial in Philadelphia. Okay. So it's like a statue? So it is a small brick

row house in the Society Hill neighborhood. It doesn't look terribly exciting from the outside.

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