Lübeck, Germany
Astronomical Clock at St. Mary's Church
A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.
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Lübeck, Germany
A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.
Wilkieston, Scotland
Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.
Aguascalientes, Mexico
Public clocks around the city chime with bullfights, cockfights, old railways, and other local traditions.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.
Bethel, New York
The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.
Gwynedd, Wales
A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."
Swansea, Wales
Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.
London, England
A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.
London, England
A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.
Barcelona, Spain
One of Europe's largest supercomputers is housed inside of a disused chapel.
Stockholm, Sweden
The world's largest model of our planetary system.
Oxford, England
Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.
Oxford, England
An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.
Cambridge, England
A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.
Cambridge, England
A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.
Cambridge, England
The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.
Cambridge, England
Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Jaipur, India
The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.
Washington, D.C.
The most accurate timepiece in the world.
Vienna, Austria
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.