Technology

This enormous storm barrier is one of the largest moving structures on Earth, with each arm taller than the Washington Monument.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

This Victorian marvel of engineering and artistic prowess is nicknamed the "Cathedral of Steam."

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Nearly 2 billion seeds from 38,000 species are stored and processed at this visitable facility in a quiet corner of England.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.