The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Listen, download, subscribe

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

That Time Locusts Ate The Entire Midwest

In the 1870s the Midwest experienced a devastating natural disaster in the form of… an enormous cloud of extremely hungry locusts. Dylan and producer Amanda discuss what happens when a cloud of locusts twice the size of Colorado descends on your town. If you can’t get enough of Rocky Mountain Locusts check out our episode on Grasshopper Glacier! 

• 

  Dylan’s Mailbag: Trips We’d Never Go On, the First Places in the Atlas, an…

• 

  We Want To Hear From You: Love & Travel

• 

  The Super Museum (Classic)

• 

  The Wall of Sound

• 

  Where We Would Spend Our Last Day Before the Apocalypse

• 

  How to Dine Like an Ancient Philosopher

• 

  The Library on the Border

• 

  National Parks Week: Discovery Tree

• 

  National Parks Week: The Allagash Four

• 

  National Parks Week: Montezuma Well

• 

  National Parks Week: Yellowstone’s Zone of Death

• 

  National Parks Week: Take a Walk, Find A New Species

• 

  Little Lambs, Big Back Story

• 

  Dolly Parton’s Dreambox (Classic)

• 

  Atlas Obscura Presents: Traveling Back in Time for Coconut Cake with The S…

• 

  Museum of Friends