Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

Preserving the research tools, unexpected inventions, and odd collections of generations of college professors.

These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

For more than half a millennia, this automaton has rung an hourly bell.

A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

A wooden dock art installation on Chiloé Island taps into the island's indigenous mythology.

This Turkish cave boasts some rather bizarre associations with the King of Mount Olympus.

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

This tiny little pool is said to be home to a malicious mermaid named Jenny Greenteeth.

A Neolithic passage tomb said to have sheltered two legendary Irish lovers.

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

A geological wonder shrouded in myth.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

Legend says this fabled well held part of a mythical Norse tree.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’ immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

Flames have been burning within this mountain for more than 2,500 years.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.