Amazing Automata

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

The Canaima airstrip in Venezuela keeps an antique DC 3 plane in its camp.

Museum of amazing old toys and automata.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

An automotive, farming machinery, and aviation museum located in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

Robotic car thieves, freakish animals and huge neon floats in Northern Ireland's capital.

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.

A chinese farmer builds robots from scrap.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

Arcade chock-full of old timey, whimsical, hand-cranked automata and peepshows.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.