Oxford, England
Oxford Electric Bell
This battery powered bell has been ringing since 1840 and is one of the worlds longest running science experiments.
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Oxford, England
This battery powered bell has been ringing since 1840 and is one of the worlds longest running science experiments.
Svalbard, Norway
This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.
Los Angeles, California
A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.
Willen, England
The first peace pagoda to be constructed in the Western world sits next to a small English lake.
Harpenden, England
Chemical fertilizer in agriculture's origin story begins here.
Belize
Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.
Bletchley, England
Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.
Bedford, England
A historic house devoted to the teachings of a 1700's prophetess and her mysterious box of revelations.
Stilton, England
Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.
Leicester, England
The world's largest collection of artifacts from our history of industrial gas use is hard to simply pass.
Grantham, England
Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.
Stannington, England
St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.
Antarctica
The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.
Tongwynlais, Wales
High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.
Swansea, Wales
Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.
Kielder, England
England's "pier at the end of the universe" unites astronomy and contemporary architecture.
Elsdon, England
A lone pole once used to display a man's corpse now stands empty, but the memory remains.
Alston, England
A well-preserved 2nd century fort where moles are the archaeologists.
Gateshead, England
Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.
Sunderland, England
A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.
Whittingham, England
This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.
Manchester, England
19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.
Manchester, England
Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.
Buxton, England
This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.