Jaipur, India
Jantar Mantar
The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.
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Jaipur, India
The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.
Delaware City, Delaware
A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.
Milton, Delaware
What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.
Dover, Delaware
Museum houses an impressive display of the origin and artistry from the now-quaint invention's history.
South San Francisco, California
A large instrument played by the wind.
Cambridge, England
An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.
Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.
Cambridge, England
A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Cambridge, England
Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.
Boston, Massachusetts
19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!
Detroit, Michigan
Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.
Shartlesville, Pennsylvania
An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.
Reading, Pennsylvania
A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.
Houlton, Maine
This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.
Zadar, Croatia
A musical instrument played by the sea.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.
Zagreb, Croatia
This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.
Bergen, Norway
Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.
Ulcinj, Montenegro
On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.
Penzance, England
A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Kotor, Montenegro
These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.
Lehi, Utah
Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.