Minneapolis, Minnesota
Washburn Park Water Tower
Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Explore the History & Technology of Electronic Communication
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A Perpetually Under construction Park.
London, England
What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.
Forres, Scotland
A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.
Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.
Salzburg, Austria
Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
Barnard Castle, England
A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.
Utrecht, Netherlands
This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.
Hamelin, Germany
The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.
London, England
A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.
Snugborough, Ireland
A Neolithic passage tomb said to have sheltered two legendary Irish lovers.
Uppsala, Sweden
Legend says this fabled well held part of a mythical Norse tree.
Tulsk, Ireland
This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.
Berlin, Germany
Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.
Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.
Kyoto, Japan
This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."
Brooklyn, New York
Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.
New York, New York
Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Pay homage to the quintessential P-town dive.
Eastbourne, England
Eat and drink at a pub older than the Magna Carta
Newport, Rhode Island
The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.