Other World Tours

27/02/2016

We will be hosting several events in Marblehead and Salem on Obscura Day - April 16th!

In our struggle for Independence, the British military received its first setback from the inhabitants of Salem in an episode that could not have been more ludicrous or entertaining if it had been ...

20/10/2015

Monday, November 9th: "From Ancient Grudge to New Mutiny: Intrigue and Conspiracy in Fair Verona” Lecture at Unnameable Books, with the New York Obscura Society

http://www.otherworldtours.com/ #!services-events/c615

New York City obscure historical and cultural walking tours

29/09/2015

a "great choice for New Yorkers and tourists alike," Other World Tours gets its visitors to "cop a feel" of living history. Thanks, Rachel!

Touring New York Recently I entertained a guest from Israel who works as a tour guide. We discussed at length how a tour guide can shape your understanding of a place, and this prompted me to explore the tour options that exist in New York. Since this is New York, there are a range of marvelous opti…

22/08/2015

Join Other World Tours and the New York Obscura Society in Central Park at twilight on September 3!

As dusk falls over the city, explore the grandiose, fantastical, utopian vision-made-reality of America's first constructed park.

25/06/2015

"Everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What my book presupposes is, maybe he didn't?" - Eli Cash

On this day in History, Battle of Little Bighorn on Jun 25, 1876. Learn more about what happened today on History.

25/06/2015

The tombstone of one of the hanging judges from the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 - John Hathorne. He was Nathaniel Hawthorne's great-great grandfather.

25/06/2015

Photos by Michelle V. Porche

14/02/2015

We're back for the first tour of the year tomorrow - join us for a brisk frigid jaunt in Central Park! http://www.atlasobscura.com/events/obscura-society-ny-secrets-of-central-park

Dan Veksler of Other World Tours joins the New York Obscura Society for an in-depth walking tour of Central Park, laying open the familiar landscape to reveal the archeological layering of seldom-known secrets and untold history.

02/10/2014

19/08/2014

More exploring with New York Obscura Society. Sunday, August 24th: Shadows of Nieuw Amsterdam Tour. Tuesday, August 26th: the History of the Duel at Nowhere Studios.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/events/a-history-of-the-duel

Definitive guidebook and friendly tour-guide to the world's most wondrous places. Travel tips, articles, strange facts and unique events.

27/07/2014

The only surviving original subway entrance at Astor Place.

27/07/2014

Alexander Hamilton's resting place. Founder of the American economy and "probably the lowest price in the city."

27/07/2014

Tactile history at Delmonico's

27/07/2014

Sidenote about early skyscrapers

27/07/2014

Today! Shadows of Nieuw Amsterdam with Atlas Obscura!

24/07/2014

This Sunday, July 27th, Other World Tours is delighted to team up with the New York Obscura Society for an expedition through Manhattan's Financial District. This little-understood neighborhood - the oldest and most oft-reinvented- began as a fortified 17th century Dutch settlement on the tail end of the ancient native trade route that is now Broadway, and by 1776 had turned into New York's first opulent neighborhood and a hotbed of espionage and separatism. It was the scene of a surprising number of dramatic first steps in America's history, and has continued as the location of many turbulent and formative events. It remains a schizophrenic collage of the remnants of its numerous cataclysms and pheonix-like resurrections and a poignant reflection of who we are today.

Join us as we peel back layers of time and transformation on the "Shadows of Nieuw Amsterdam Tour" by signing up here: http://www.atlasobscura.com/events/obscura-society-nyc-shadows-of-nieuw-amsterdam

Definitive guidebook and friendly tour-guide to the world's most wondrous places. Travel tips, articles, strange facts and unique events.

16/06/2014

Tasting the mulberry bushes

16/06/2014

Olfactory interpretations/discovering the scent of Poe's world on the Greenwood Cemetery walk

15/06/2014

Daguerreotype gravestone

15/06/2014

Checking out the symbolism...

15/06/2014

Yesterday's entourage on a beautiful exploration of Greenwood Cemetery. Back again today with a new group of curious humans.

10/06/2014

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27/05/2014

Look at things from a new perspective...

This sunday=Flatiron and Gramercy, enchanted fairy ghost lands of Manhattan. Visit www.otherworldtours.com for more info.

27/05/2014

100 likes! Yikes! Yea! Yahoo! Better yet, a REAL LIVE HUMAN walking tour and mobile lecture this Sunday, June 1st...

Discover the enchanted fairytale woods of Manhattan, gilded and elegant, schizophrenically eclectic, and weirdly frozen in time on the "Flatiron and Gramercy" walking tour.

Email [email protected]. Learn more or sign up here: www.otherworldtours.com

Love, adventure, and gratitude-
OWT

New York City obscure historical and cultural walking tours

22/05/2014

SUNDAY, JUNE FIRST: Join us for a tour of Flatiron and Gramercy. Discover the rich history of this city that seduces and drives you so crazy... Sign up on our website: http://www.otherworldtours.com/ #!contact/c2q4

"Gilded and elegant, schizophrenically eclectic, and weirdly frozen in time, Flatiron and Gramercy are the enchanted fairytale woods of Manhattan. Built on the periphery of things, largely in the serenely grandiose monumental and utopian mid-19th century, the two adjacent neighborhoods bear the permanent imprint of the Civil War. The buildings stand silent as ancient trees. The Victorian wrought iron and bronze hang heavy over the past, which is, as truth always is, so much stranger than fiction."

21/05/2014

New June tour dates:
Sunday, June 1st
Sunday, June 15th
Sunday, June 22nd

Stay tuned for details!