Amazing Automata

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The spectacular Roshen Fountain show lights up the night sky all summer long, until it "hibernates" under the ice waiting for spring to come.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.