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The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

The mosaic floor of a 4th-century synagogue features a pagan zodiac wheel alongside traditional images of a Torah ark and menorahs.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.

This mountaintop observatory is home to one of the world's largest reflective telescopes.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

One of the world's most complex timepieces.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.