Jonathan Carey and Michelle Cassidy of the Atlas Places Team find beauty and fascination at the sites of warped and bizarre statues in Nuremberg, Germany and Urgnano, Italy.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/der-hase">https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/der-hase</a><a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-grotesques-of-urgnano-castle">https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-grotesques-of-urgnano-castle</a>

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Gorgeous Grotesques with the Places Team

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.