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William H. Webb

Brooklyn, New York

Webb and Bell

One of the first major shipyards in Brooklyn.

The voltaic pile at the Tempio Voltiano in Como, Italy.

Tempio Voltiano

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

The Long Now Orrery

San Francisco, California

Long Now Orrery

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

The Avrocar

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

Mount Tremper, New York

Kaatskill Kaleidoscope

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Gastown Steam Clock

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

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Wiesbaden, Germany

Nerobergbahn

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

Golden Hinde in London

London, England

Replica of the Golden Hinde

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Ulugh Beg Observatory

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

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St. Augustine, Florida

St. Augustine Airplane Graveyard

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

Decoys

Havre de Grace, Maryland

Havre de Grace Decoy Museum

The Decoy Capital of the World.

Carson, California

International Printing Museum

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

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Santa Monica, California

Jadis

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

The museum as seen from the road.

McMinnville, Oregon

Evergreen Aviation Museum

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

Engineer readies the steam locomotive

Darmstadt, Germany

Darmstadt Railway Museum

1898 German railroad depot museum with working engines, steam train excursions, and hands-on displays.

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.

Wunderland Kalkar

Kalkar, Germany

Wunderland Kalkar

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.