Join Atlas Obscura at The Bone Room for a show-and-tell tour with the owner and founder, Ron Cauble. Explore the wonders of Berkeley’s venerable natural history store with the man who knows it best. Hear behind-the scenes stories and get a chance to ask all those questions we know you have.

RSVP here: http://obscuraday-berkeley.eventbrite.com/
Cost: Free

Obscura Day is an international celebration of unusual places taking place …

As part of the 2010 Atlas Obscura Day, Join Stanford University Hospital chief engineer Leander Robinson on a tour of one of the largest pneumatic tube networks in the world. Snaking through the medical center’s walls are four miles of tubes that shuttle specimens and paperwork around the facility at 18 miles per hour. Robinson will explain how this incredible system works.
Meet at the fountain …

Join Atlas Obscura for an afternoon excursion to the amazing Musee Mecanique for an afternoon of creepy wind-up fortune tellers, prisoner-made toothpick automata, and naughty peep shows of yesteryear. Proprietor Dan Zelinsky will be on hand to tell stories and answer questions about the contraptions.
When all the quarters run out, we’ll head down to Aquatic Park for afternoon snacks on the terraces made of discarded …

Join us at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View for a demonstration of their amazing Victorian Computer, the Difference Engine #2. Regarded by many as the first example of a mechanical computer, the Difference Engine was only one of many inventions by the mathematician Charles Babbage. Due to his difficult personality and the enormous technical challenges involved in building his designs, the machines were …

Watch NCAA March Madness all day while trying to eat 10 corn dogs 100 tater tots and down 10 PBR in one sitting – what better way to spend the Saturday before you get admitted to the ER!
What is National Corn Dog Day: National Corndog Day (actually sponsored by Foster Farms and PBR) coincides with the Saturday of the final 32 teams in NCAA basketball …

Please join us for a reception at The Long Now Foundation Museum & Store from 5-7pm on March 20th for Atlas Obscura Day.
Several of the engineers and project staff working on the 10,000 Year Clock and Rosetta Project will be on hand to give explanations and demonstrations of artifacts in the Museum. We are walking distance from Musee Mecanique and our space in San Francisco …

Dog Eared Books’ monthly musical/literary/scientific extravaganza and variety show returns with its April 2010 edition with Peter Orner, Passenger + Pilot, and a guarantee of surprises.
To be honest we don’t know what the hell is going to happen at this event, but with a promo photo of a steampunk Abe Lincoln wearing a jet pack it can’t ball all that bad, can it?

Watch teams of crazy bed racers jump on top of the sheets and head for the finish line as part of the “Bed Race for the Future.” Although it costs $181 to enter (proceeds go to charity) it’s free to watch for spectators and is bound to be a hoot. Teams will compete for speed and style with four strong and swift pushers to move …

Bring your tortillas (stale preferred), your costumed, your naked and your beer (shhh.. hide it this year) and participate in one of the largest races in America, and also one of the most strange and “San Francentric.”
The third Sunday in May sees the 99th edition of “Bay to Breakers” the crown jewel of SF events with over 70,000 race/walk/stroll 7.46 …