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Unusual Loves Stories Week: Hachiko

2/11/2025 • 9 min

This week, we’re featuring unusual love stories – from couples who were introduced by a mule, to the world’s most loyal dog, to a post office sustained by the kindness of strangers. In today’s episode, we visit the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation—a dog. Play episode

Unusual Love Stories Week: A Long Walk Home
Send Dylan Your Questions!
Songs of Ice with the Places Team (Classic)
Paul Scheer’s Life in Three Places
Ben Franklin’s Musical Invention
Africville
First Travel Dates
Medfield State Hospital (Classic)
Joe Magarac: The Other Man of Steel
More First Trips Abroad
The Diving Horses of Atlantic City
Dylan’s Mailbag: Tough Trips, Controversial Airplane Etiquette, and Tattoos
Buckley’s Cave (Classic)
The Mystery Man of Marree
Mobile Bay’s Tidal Wave of Fish
Atlas Obscura Goes Off Assignment: To the Platinum Blonde DJ On Her Way to…
Atlas Obscura Presents: "Bigfoot is from North Carolina" with The Broadside
Brown Dog Statue (Classic)
Don’t Ask Jacques Ze Whipper What He Does for a Living
The Town That Moved a Windmill
The Kola Superdeep Borehole
First Trips Abroad
Endangered Wolf Center (Classic)
Zach Stafford’s Life in Five Places
Christine's Cell
Art on Wheels
Cabbage Patch BabyLand General Hospital
New Year, New Travel Resolutions
The Divorce Colony (Holiday Classic)
In the Doldrums with Bernie Harberts (Holiday Classic)
Broken Angel (Holiday Classic)
Beishan Broadcast Wall (Holiday Classic)
Anne Spencer’s Garden (Holiday Classic)
A Quick Hello from Dylan. Plus: We Want Your Dating Travel Stories!
Milo Bitters (Holiday Classic)
Exploring the Abandoned with Blake Pfeil (Holiday Classic)
The Shrek Donkey of Barron Park (Holiday Classic)
The Tank (Holiday Classic)
The Timbuktu Manuscripts
A Message from Dylan. Plus: Send Us Your Questions!
The Portland Treasure Map
Atlas Obscura Presents: A Tour de Stumps with Terrestrials
Christmas Monsters with Colin Dickey
Art We Love to Hate
Dylan's Mailbag: Strange Things Packed, Authentic Adventures, Road Trip Fo…
What Was Your First International Trip?
Larry Spring Museum of Common Sense Physics (Classic)
The Witch’s Gear
Palace of Depression

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