London, England
Clock of the Long Now: Prototype 1
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
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London, England
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
Esperança, Portugal
You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.
Baker, Nevada
A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.
Kansas City, Missouri
Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.
San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
Nampa, Idaho
A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
Lübeck, Germany
A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.
Cleveland, Ohio
A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.
San Jon, New Mexico
The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.
Helsingborg, Sweden
From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.
Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands
The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
Milledgeville, Georgia
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.
Rybachiy, Russia
The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.
Portugal
An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.
Andover, New Hampshire
The final resting place of the first American-born professional magician.
New York, New York
The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.
Angoville-au-Plain, France
Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.
London, England
A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Known as the Hintz House, this medieval pharmacy has been an apothecary's haven for nearly 450 years.
Kaunas, Lithuania
Folky pharmaceuticals abound in this medicinal reliquary.
Székesfehérvár, Hungary
300 years of pharmaceutical history on display.
Lviv, Ukraine
Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.