Cultural historian Kassia St. Clair tells the stories of two highly prized colors that are linked to specific places in the world: an exquisite, extremely expensive blue that crossed the globe and upended the European art world… and a shade of purple that possibly wouldn’t have ever come to exist in a different place and time.   
Learn more about color history in Kassia’s book,<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552503/the-secret-lives-of-color-by-kassia-st-clair/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> The Secret Lives of Color</a>
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Old City Hall Station (Classic)

An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore a new wonder every day, Monday through Thursday. In under 15 minutes, they’ll take you to an incredible place, and along the way, you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Our theme and end credit music is composed by Sam Tyndall.