Obscura Day 2012: Urban Explorations and Off-Limit Adventures

Obscura Day has got all the adventure you could possibly want: Get outside end explore the urban landscape and see the city with new eyes.

More than anything else, Obscura Day is dedicated to creating opportunities to get to understand and appreciate our local wonders. Frombeer-fueled biking through the wilds of Staten Island, a street art photo contest, to an exploration of Chicago’s obscure architecture, there are all kinds of opportunities to discover your hometown and the strange places, odd buildings and hidden histories it holds.

Bicycle Blitz Thru Staten Island: Italian Inventors & Agitators, Clam Pies & German Beer Gardens, Staten Island, New York

Street Art Photography Workshop, New York City

GET CURIOUS:

• Disasters of New York: Green-Wood Cemetery Walk with Allison Meier, New York, New York
• Obscura Day on Board the USS Iowa Richmond, California
• Expedition to the 1553 Stone-Carved Monks of Nihon-ji, Kyonan, Japan
• Bloomsbury: Walking London’s Lost Medical World, London, England
• South Bank to Bermondsey: Walk the Lost River Neckinger , London, England
• Explore Hidden London with Context Travel, London, England
• Thirteen Steps Around Dutch Kills, Long Island City, New York
• Obscura Day Picnic at the Abandoned Zoo, Los Angeles, California
• Urban Foraging in Central Park, New York, New York
• Lost Streams of NYC: Walk the Route of Minetta Brook & Canal Street Canal, New York, New York
• Explore Paris’ Pere Lachaise Cemetery with Context Travel, Paris, France
• Off Limits and After Dark at Eastern State Pen, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• After Dark Under Old Sacramento, Sacramento, California
• Historic Cave Exploration at the Wabasha Street Caves, Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Tour of Inscape building and Northwest Museum of Legends and Lore, Seattle, Washington
• The Forgotten Beaches of the Forgotten Borough, Staten Island, New York
• Caves as Portals: Exploring the Grotto Beneath Ting Mountain, Vancouver, Canada
• Topography of Terror, Berlin, Germany

Obscura Day April 28, 2012 - EVERYWHERE