Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Museum of Material Failures
It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.
Rochester, New York
The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Zanesville, Ohio
A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.
Newark, Ohio
An office built to look like a giant basket.
Paris, France
One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.
Kingsbridge, England
Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Nashville, Tennessee
This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.
Bamburgh, England
The medieval-looking hammer beam teak roof may be a Victorian vanity, but it's still absolutely magnificent.
Wierschem, Germany
This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.
Heidelberg, Germany
This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.
Elberta, Alabama
Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.
Hull, Massachusetts
Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.
Grafton, Vermont
Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.
Vienna, Austria
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Lier, Belgium
A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.
Queens, New York
The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.
Bletchley, England
Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.
Warren, New Hampshire
Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.