For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

The world's first funicular powered by a steam engine.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

Once known as one of the finest tourist railways in Europe.

According to a local legend, this peculiar mountaintop rock formation is actually a demon that was turned into stone.

The cellar of a former factory is now home to a collection of gloves, machines, and tools of the trade.

Vaucanson's most famous automaton, brought back to life.

Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.