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On the Hunt for Government Treasure with Mitch Yockelson

Investigator Mitch Yockelson, a historian and academic turned archival bounty hunter, has a job that makes for pretty interesting dinner party discussion: tracking down the people who steal government property.

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  The Wave Organ

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  Wild Life Week: Rae Wynn-Grant and the Bear (Classic)

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  Wild Life Week: Why Would a Researcher Pull a Lion’s Tail?

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  Wild Life Week: Celery Makes A Nature Documentary

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  Wild Life Week: The Female Alphas of Yellowstone

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  Wild Life Week: Exploring Our Alien Planet with Cara Giaimo

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  Ottoman Bird Palaces (Classic)

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  The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

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  Auctioning off Roadside America

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  Atlas Obscura Goes Off Assignment: Sa Cabaneta & Provincetown

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  The Wimbledon Queue

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  Seven Keys Lodge (Classic)

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  Are Cemeteries…Dying?

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  District Six

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  Atlas Obscura Goes Off Assignment: To the Swimmer in the Borneo Rainforest

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  Oh, the Places We Can’t Go