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Inventions

The Avrocar

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

Jasper, Alberta

Operation Habbakuk at Patricia Lake

The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.

Dienersdorf, Austria

Gsellmann's Weltmaschine

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

Ytterby mine.

Stockholm, Sweden

Ytterby Mine

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

Carson, California

International Printing Museum

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bascarsija

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

Portland, Oregon

The Vacuum Cleaner Museum

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

Seattle, Washington

‘A Sound Garden’

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Hammond Castle Museum

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Wuppertal, Germany

Schwebebahn Wuppertal

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

Brussels, Belgium

The Atomium

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

Green Valley, Arizona

Titan Missile Museum

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Los Angeles, California

Angels Flight

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Forres, Scotland

The House of Automata

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

Inside the interferometer

Walker, Louisiana

LIGO Livingston Observatory

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

Replica of the 7-foot telescope Herschel used to discover Uranus.

Herschel Museum of Astronomy

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

Williams Bay, Wisconsin

Yerkes Observatory

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.