Obscura Day Events
Anniston, AL *
Berman Museum of World History and Anniston Natural History Museum
On Obscura Day we visited both the Berman Museum of World History and the adjacent Anniston Museum of Natural History for an afternoon of discovery.
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California City, CA *
BLDGBLOG expedition to the Geoglyphs of Nowhere
Our friends at BLDGBLOG hosted a day of desert exploration in the Southern California desert. Carloads of intrepid souls ventured out into the wasteland to photograph the streets, signs, and abandoned hotels of a never-built city.
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GOOD.is Obscura Day - Preservation by Exploration
BLDGBLOG: California City Expedition Update
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Mercedesfromtheeighties' Flickr Set
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Obscura Day in California City
A Drive Through California City
Abandoned Lake Shore Inn
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Joshua Tree, CA *
Tours of the Integratron, Tour Giant Rock, and the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum
Paul K. Sholar of Suede Shirt Travel led a day of explorations through Joshua Trees most curious locals, such as the Integratron Self-Guided Tour and Sound Bath, originally designed as a rejuvenation and time machine, today it is the only all-wood, acoustically perfect sound chamber in the U.S., the Giant Rock the largest freestanding boulder in the world, and the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum.
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Los Angeles, CA *
Curious Los Angeles Locales Tour
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Palo Alto, CA *
Tour of One of the World's Largest Pneumatic Tube Systems
Stanford University Hospital opened up on Obscura Day for an exclusive peek at the four miles of four miles of pneumatic tubes that shuttle specimens and paperwork around the facility at 18 miles per hour. (Photo courtesy of Stanford School of Medicine)
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Groton, CT *
Expedition to the Stone Ruins of Gungywamp Hill
Obscura day explorers went out to the unique stone circles and hidden chambers at the Gungywamp archaeological site to explore two rows of standing capstones, with a bird of prey image carved in one of the standing stones, double-ring of stones (old tanning mill?), and stone chambers (the Calendar Chamber and the tomb chamber).
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Colorado Springs, CO *
Cowboys, Castles and Cups of Tea with the Colorado Steampunks
The Colorado Steampunks were out in force for a day of explorations at the Wild Wild West Museum, and to the rock formations of "Garden of the Gods" - not to mention proper afternoon tea at the Glen Eryie Castle.
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Miami, FL *
Tour the Coral Castle
In Miami, explorers roamed the Coral Castle, one the world's most unusual self-built monuments to lost love.
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West Palm Beach, FL *
Trek through the abandoned streets of Unit 11 in the Everglades
Join us for a trek through the abandoned streets of Unit 11 in the Everglades. A failed development that has remained untouched for nearly 40 years, Unit 11 has become a home for wild boars, carnivorous plants, and exotic birds living amid a suburban rectangular grid of forest.
Adventurers trekked through the abandoned streets of Unit 11 in the Everglades, where a failed development has remained untouched for nearly 40 years.
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Hutchinson, KS *
Kansas City Underground Salt Museum
In Hutchinson, Kansas Obscura Day visitors went sixty-five stories below the city into a salt mine that stretches from Kansas all the way to New Mexico, for a tour of the Underground Salt Museum to see the piece of crystal on which the oldest known bacteria was found, and the "Dark Ride" tram tour of the mine.
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Lucas, KS *
Field Trip to the Garden of Eden
Obscura Day was held at one of the "Eight Wonders of Kansas Art". The Garden of Eden is an eccentric home and sculpture park built by civil war veteran Samuel Dinsmoor.
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New Orleans, LA *
Abita Mystery House Tour
Museum founder John Preble led visits to his eccentric museum near New Orleans, a folk art environment with thousands of found objects and homemade inventions.
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Boston, MA *
Warren Anatomical Museum
Dominic Hall, curator of Warren Anatomical Museum at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, led a special Obscura Day tour of the museum’s exhibition gallery and its historic collection of anatomical preparations and medical instrumentation and models, including casts from the phrenological collection of Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, papier-mache anatomical models made by physician Louis Auzoux, a teaching Beauchene "exploded" skull, and the life cast, skull, and tamping iron of Phineas Gage, the railroad foreman who became one of the most notable 19th century medical case histories detailing traumatic brain injury.
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Jamaica Plain, MA *
Walking Tour of Forest Hills Cemetery
Writer and independent scholar Matthew Battles headed up a tour of the Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood, the final resting place of Anne Sexton, e.e. cummings, and Eugene O'Neill.
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Needham, MA *
Picnic at Martini Junction
Join us for a short walk thru the Needham Town Forest to Martini Junction, where we will explore Jim Metcalf's model railway and miniatures set in the woods, and get a rare demonstration of the G Scale model train in action.
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Baltimore, MD *
National Museum of Dentistry: Oddities Tour
There was a special Oddities tour of the National Museum of Dentistry on Obscura Day - the perfect chance to admire George Washington’s choppers, Queen Victoria's dental instruments, and sing along to vintage dental commercials.
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Kansas City, MO *
Tour the Hair Museum
In Independence, Missouri Obscura Day was observed with explorations to Leila's Hair Museum, which displays 159 wreaths and more than 2,000 pieces of jewelry made out of human hair.
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St. Louis, MO *
Founder's Tour of the Space Museum
Space Museum founder Earl Mullins led a special Obscura Day tour of the collection of artifacts from space programs around the world, including a flag flown to the Moon in personal preference kit of astronaut Gene Cernan on Apollo 17, a very early Mercury spacecraft design model and Scott Carpenter’s flown Mercury Operator's Manual from Mercury 7.
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Daily Journal Space Museum Plans Activities for Obscura Day
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Butte, MT *
Berkeley Pit Mine
An expert-led tour of the the Berkeley Pit Mine was held for Obscura Day. The Mine is the country's largest Superfund site, once a huge copper pit mine, now a toxic man-made lake of extremely acidic water.
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KBZK Montana Obscura Day Observed at Berkeley Pit Mine
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Butte, MT *
Synchronized Ringing Rocks Concert
A singing stone concert was held at the musical rocks at the edge of the Boulder Batholith by banging with hammers, mallets, wrenches, and other percussive instruments for Obscura Day.
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Elkin, NC *
Visit to a Private Cabinet of Curiosities
Anne and Paul Gulley of Elkin, North Carolina welcomed us into their home for Obscura Day, where they have transformed their livingroom into an ersatz wunderkammer, complete with an alligator hanging from the ceiling.
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Greensboro, NC *
Tour of the Elsewhere Collective's living museum
The Elsewhere Collective held a free tour of Elsewhere's living museum and 58-year collection of re-organized thrift and surplus
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Albuquerque, NM *
Hikaru Dorodango Workshop
Bruce Gardner of dorodango.com held a special Obscura Day workshop on creating hikaru dorodango, the Japanese art of shiny mud balls.
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Brooklyn, NY *
Dead Horse Bay Explorations with Underwater New York!
Our friends at Underwater New York led Obscura Day at Dead Horse Bay, named for the bones that still wash up there, remnants from horse rendering plants on what was once Barren Island., for a walk along a beach littered with thousands of toys, vintage bottles, horse bones, and a slew of wacky trash from eras past.
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For the Love of BrooklynObscura Day at Dead Horse Bay
Underwater New YorkObscura Day Expedition to Dead Horse bay
The Ullage GroupAdventure on Barren Island
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Queens, NY *
Urban Foraging with "Wildman" Steve Brill
In Queens we went urban foraging under the guidance of world-famous naturalist/author "Wildman" Steve Brill who helped us spot a wide selection of wild herbs, greens, roots, and even some cold-weather mushrooms.
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Urban Oyster Wildman Makes City Parks Delicious
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Williams, OR *
Arborsmith Studios Tour
For Obscura Day, Arborsculptor Richard Reames opened up his Arborsmith Studio and showing visitors the techniques he uses to create living sculpture, where he is currently growing a living tree house 15 feet off the ground.
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Bucks County, PA *
Ringing Rocks Concert
Hammers, mallets, bats, and other percussive instruments were used to produce musical mayhem at the mysterious Ringing Rocks Park in eastern Pennsylvania, where the stones have a most curious property: they ring out musical tones when struck.
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Adam Ringing Rocks
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Austin, TX *
Museum of the Weird and the Bat Bridge
Obscura Day in Austin visited the classic dime store novelty museum, the Museum of the Weird, and then went looking for Mexican Free-tailed Bats at the Congress Street Bridge.
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Melbourne, Australia *
Trek through the Outsider Artist's William Ricketts Sanctuary
Park rangers gave a special Obscura Day tour through the William Ricketts Sanctuary to admire the the 92 ceramic sculptures in the park which blend seamlessly into the natural surroundings.
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Anecdoted Obscura Day at the William Ricketts Sanctuary
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Sydney, Australia *
Newnes Glow Worm Tunnel Expedition
Daring adventurers headed out to the Newnes Railway Tunnel outside of Sydney to admire the rare bio-luminescent beauty of thousands of cave-dwelling glowworms.
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A Pretentious Blog - Anna Rose Kerr Newnes Glow Worm Tunnel Day
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Dawson City, Canada *
Celebrate Thaw-di-Gras on Obscura Day
We invited brave souls to celebrate the end of a Yukon winter with a Body Parts Cocktail Bar Crawl (including the the infamous "Sourtoe Cocktail" complete with real human toe) as part of the the annual Thaw-di-Gras festivities.
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Lethbridge, Canada *
Behind the scenes tour - Treasures & Curiosities at the Galt Museum
The Galt Museum & Archives held a special tour of the new exhibit “Treasures & Curiosities” – a selection of 200 artifacts selected by members of the community from our Collections Vaults, including a a behind-the-scenes visit to the Collections.
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Toronto, Canada *
Mysterion's Curio Collection
The Sunnyside Tattoos and Sideshow Parlour showed off the stunning curio collection of Toronto mentalist Mysterion, including pickled punks, albino squirrels, and sundry other curiosities.
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Havana, Cuba *
John Lennon Park and the Old Havana Perfume Museum
Obscuraphiles gathered at John Lennon park in Havana, Cuba to view a sculpture of John Lennon and celebrate the Beatles controversial legacy in Communist Cuba, then proceeded to the Old Havana Perfume Museum and their extensive collection of bottles, ingredients, and historical artifacts all related to perfume.
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Budapest, Hungary *
Tour of Budapest's Semmelweis Medical Museum
Obscura Day was held at Budapest's famous Semmelweis Medical Museum where the terrific collection includes a wax "anatomical Venus," an early X-ray machine, and even a shrunken head, all housed in the very building in which Dr. Semmelweis was born.
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Husavik, Iceland *
Iceland Phallological Museum Tour
Icelandic Obscura Day explorers visited the unique Icelandic Phallological Museum in Husavik, which is "probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country."
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Nighoj, India *
Picnic at Kukdi River Potholes
Obscura Day was held in Nighoj, India with a picnic and exploration of largest natural pot holes in Asia, the phenomenon known as giants kettles, giants cauldrons or potholes is caused when small hard pebbles are trapped in eddies and, over many thousands of years, drill circular holes into the riverbed.
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Jerusalem, Israel *
Scavenger Hunt at the Bloomfield Science Museum
The Bloomfield Science Museum held an Obscura Day Scavenger Hunt called "find the exhibit" designed to help us discover new corners at the museum.
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Turin, Italy *
Grand Tour of the Nautilus Collection of Antique Scientific Instruments & Old Oddities
Obscura Day was held in Turin Italy at the oddities shop writer David Sederis called "The greatest shop in the world." The owners gave a guided tour of the shop, telling histories about main pieces of the collections and some facts about where and how we found them: the mummy arm, the 2-headed calfs, the anatomical specimen, the electroshock machine, and many more.
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Nautilus Antiques and Old Oddities
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Tokyo, Japan *
G-Cans Tour
Obscura Day in Tokyo and the planned visit to the G-Cans was unexpectedly cancelled a few days before Obscura Day. If you've made it there since or taken any photos please email us!
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Dunedin, New Zealand *
Visit the Beverly Clock
Paul Yates of the University of Otago physics department put on an afternoon of scientific wonder, with an explanation of the Beverly clock - one of the world's longest running science experiments- followed by demonstrations of a water manometer, equipment belonging to radio pioneer Robert Jack, a Wimshurst electrostatic generator, cloud chambers showing radioactive decay, as well as liquid nitrogen demonstrations.
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Kristiansand, Norway *
A flashlight tour of Sandviktoppen, NATO's nuclear hardened Command Bunker
Obscura day was held at Sandviktoppen, Norway at NATO's Atlantic North Command and Control Bunker, built during the Cold War deep under a mountain overlooking Kristiansand, Norway. This ABC (Atomic, Biological, Chemical) proof facility was in service until 1992. After being decommissioned, the bunker has been locked and sealed awaiting a decision about its future use.
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Warsaw, Poland *
Fotoplastikon
Obscura Day was held at the Warsaw Fotoplastikon, hosting a stereoscopic presentation on life in Warsaw at the turn of the last century.
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St. Petersburg, Russia *
Tour of Mystical St. Petersburg
In St. Petersburg, Obscuraphiles toured the mystical past of the city, exploring the Tower of Griffins, the Courtyard of Spirits and the hidden courtyard of the KKunstkamera.
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Inverness, Scotland *
Grand Tour of Scotland's House of Automata
AutomatomaniA, also known as "The House of Automata" hosted Obscura Day in Inverness. A gothic stone workshop and store rooms on the beautiful Altyre Estate near Forres in Scotland, AutomatomaniA is dedicated to the history and restoration of automata.
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Belgrade, Serbia *
Tour the world's only Tesla Museum
In Belgrade, Obscura Day was held at the one and only Tesla Museum for a visit with Tesla's ashes (held in a gold plated sphere), a two-phase generator, the famous "egg of Columbus" (which Tesla used to secure funding for his AC motor), and of course, lots of Tesla coils.
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YellowCab Obscura Day at the Tesla Museum
24 Sata Obscura Day at the Tesla Museum
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Stockholm, Sweden *
Get Up Close to the Wreck of the Ghost Ship Vasa
The Vasa Museum hosted a rare up-close, "under deck" look at the legendary Vasa, the pride of the 17th century Swedish Navy, sunk on her maiden voyage for Obscura Day.
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Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland *
Journey to the Maison d'Ailleurs
Maison d'Ailleurs, a museum devoted to science fiction utopias and extraordinary journeys, hosted a special guided tour of the newly opened exhibit Galactic Hits: Music and Science Fiction! Space rock, cosmic jazz, scifidelic, futurepop!
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Alnwick, UK *
Special Tour of the Alnwick Poison Gardens
Obscura day was held at Alnwick Poison Garden on the grounds of Alnwick Castle, one of very few places in the world dedicated not only to medical herbs, but to deadly plants.
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Cheltenham, UK *
Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music
Join us for a special tour of this unusual collection of "reproducing pianos," which recreate live performances by famous virtuosos. Listen to Greig, Rachmaninov, and Gershwin playing their pieces as if they were alive today.
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London, UK *
Bloomsbury: London's Lost Medical Landscape
Richard Barnett, author of Medical London, led a tour of Bloomsbury’s medical curiosities from the Holborn tube to the Wellcome Collection.
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Strange Attractor Strange Attractor on Obscura Day
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