Cavite City, Philippines
Fort Drum (El Fraile Island)
A man-made island designed to look like a massive battleship.
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Cavite City, Philippines
A man-made island designed to look like a massive battleship.
Cavite City, Philippines
The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.
Hong Kong
This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.
Bushell Park, Saskatchewan
A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the middle of the Canadian prairie.
Enontekiö, Finland
This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.
Aptos, California
At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.
Huelgoat, France
If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.
London, England
A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.
Selçuk, Turkey
The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.
Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
The effect of this ancient form of image projection situated atop an 11th century Moorish palace is thrilling.
Raleigh, North Carolina
This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.
Bristol, England
The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.
Edinburgh, Scotland
360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.
Santa Monica, California
An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.
Greenport, New York
A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.
Donaueschingen, Germany
The great Danube river starts here.
London, England
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
Jaipur, India
The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.
Salisbury, England
The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.
Utrecht, Netherlands
This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
This unique bridge physically lifts a piece of the road into the air to let boats pass by.
San Francisco, California
A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.
New York, New York
More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.