North Adams, Massachusetts
Harmonic Bridge
Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.
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North Adams, Massachusetts
Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.
Vermillion, South Dakota
One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.
Burnley, England
A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.
South San Francisco, California
A large instrument played by the wind.
Charlotte, North Carolina
This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.
London, England
Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.
Delaware City, Delaware
A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.
San Francisco, California
The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.
London, England
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.
Cleveland, Ohio
This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."
Boston, Massachusetts
19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!
Buxton, England
Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.
Montreal, Québec
Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.
New York, New York
Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.
Hobro, Denmark
A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.
Nampa, Idaho
A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
Uxbridge, England
Visit the WWII bunker where the British won the battle for the skies.
Hereford, England
The largest known medieval map of the world.
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Madaba, Jordan
The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.
Larvik, Norway
Mysterious man-made rock piles form an ancient cemetery on this rocky beach in Norway.
Elie, Scotland
The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.