Barnard Castle, England
The Silver Swan
A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.
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Barnard Castle, England
A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.
Haiti
This iconic fortress was once the crown jewel of Haiti's national defense.
Milot, Haiti
The royal seat of Henri Christophe, a formerly enslaved man who became Haiti's only king.
Antigua and Barbuda
A hotly contested micro-nation off the coast of Montserrat.
Vienna, Austria
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.
Vienna, Austria
The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.
Vienna, Austria
One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Vienna, Austria
Located right outside of Vienna, visitors can take in expansive views of an ethereal forest.
Vienna, Austria
Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.
Vienna, Austria
Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.
Vienna, Austria
Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.
Vienna, Austria
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
Vienna, Austria
The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.
Vienna, Austria
A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Key West, Florida
"We Seceded Where Others Failed."
Suffolk, England
A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.
Safita, Syria
Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.
Agion Oros, Greece
An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.
Yallabatharra, Australia
A micronation of epic proportions.
Bommayapalayam, India
This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.
Höganäs, Sweden
Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.
Fishers Island, New York
Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.