Obscura Day Locations

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.