Halberstadt, Germany
Sankt Burchardi Church Organ
Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.
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Halberstadt, Germany
Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.
San Francisco, California
A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.
London, England
A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.
London, England
Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.
Rawtenstall, England
The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.
London, England
A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.
Coventry, England
A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.
London, England
Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.
Claines, England
This 15th century pub is one of only two pubs in England situated on consecrated ground.
Bury Saint Edmunds, England
The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.
London, England
A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.
London, England
A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.
London, England
Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.
London, England
This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Cambridge, England
The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.
London, England
The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.
Nottingham, England
The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.
Sinaia, Romania
This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.
Phoenix, Arizona
The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.
Lee Vining, California
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
Santa Cruz, California
A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.
Yosemite National Park, California
Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.
Glendale, California
A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.