Machines

This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.

One of the world's largest tractors was built to replace camel caravans.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

Public clocks around the city chime with bullfights, cockfights, old railways, and other local traditions.

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

Once the largest rope factory in Greece, this abandoned plant now stands like a ghost of industry past.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

One of these two land speed record-breaking vehicles went so fast it shattered the sound barrier.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.