Machines

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

This quirky collection is an interactive exhibit crammed with creative contraptions and tinkered-with toys.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

The world's largest washing machine collection has more than 1,400 antique items in its exhibit.

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

The early data processor factory founded in Washington for the 1890 U.S. Census went on to become IBM.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

For those late-night mollusk cravings.

A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.