The Blue Whale of Catoosa (Classic)

A Seattle restaurant pushes diners to eat beyond their borders through its embrace of global street foods. 

The Pan-American Highway is considered the longest road in the world – it stretches nearly 20,000 miles, from Alaska to Argentina. In her new docuseries Pati Jinich Explores PanAmericana, Pati talks with people along the famous route about the different ways we form our identitie ... Show More

Early polar explorers faced long nights and dangerous expeditions. To entertain themselves, they wrote and published niche newspapers and periodicals. Atlas Obscura’s community editor Allegra Rosenberg reads an essay exploring this unique polar tradition. Read her full essay here ... Show More

After half-a-century in a tank, a beloved orca named Tokitae was about to be freed. Then her life ended, and a moment of reckoning began. Read more: Most of the nearly 50 southern resident orcas taken from the Pacific Northwest during the 1960s and ’70s died within the first year ... Show More

The Whale of a Tale dynamic due, Atlas and Zavia, head back to the bottom of the Pflugerville Ocean in search of answers about a pirate submarine and the mysterious machine it seems to be guarding. 

We are going on a different kind of adventure today. Join Birdie as she goes on an adventure with twins Zavia and Atlas in the Whale of a Tale submarine! 

Swimming with Whales off Tonga 

Join us for a special preview episode of our new show, Whale of a Tale! Join Atlas and Zavia as they go on their first big adventure to the bottom of the Pflugerville Ocean! What kind of hidden secrets and deep sea adventures will they find themselves in? Only one way to find out ... Show More

Less than 0.001% of the deep ocean has been explored. Ella Al-Shamahi speaks to two women from South Africa and the US who have dedicated their careers to finding out more about our planet's most uncharted depths.Dr Katy Croff Bell is an American ocean explorer and deep-sea techn ... Show More

After the movie “Free Willy” became a hit, word got out that the star of the film, a killer whale named Keiko, was sick and living in a tiny pool at a Mexican amusement park. Fans were outraged and pleaded for his release. “The Good Whale” tells the story of the wildly ambitious ... Show More

Can't get enough Whale of a Tale? Next week get ready to join Betty the Whale and Bubbles the Seahorse as they explore sea creature features, underwater mystery theater, and a weekly ocean quiz fest!