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Amazing Automata

Green Valley, Arizona

Titan Missile Museum

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Forres, Scotland

The House of Automata

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

the Elephant Clock at the Ibn Battuta mall

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Elephant Clock

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

Permanently Closed

Portland, Oregon

Kidd's Toy Museum

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

Permanently Closed

Image showing mechanism from mid 1800s

Grenoble, France

Canard Digérateur de Vaucanson (Vaucanson's Digesting Duck)

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

Bird's eye view of the France Miniature

Élancourt, France

France Miniature Park

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

San Francisco, California

Leroy King Carousel

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Pianola Museum

A unique collection of gilded age mechanical pianos.

Whitehorse, Yukon

The World's Largest Weathervane, a DC-3

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

Mechanical Dragon Clock

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Los Angeles, California

Nethercutt Collection and Museum

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

Permanently Closed

Coin-Operated Orchestra Machine with Little Men Playing Bells

Wiscasset, Maine

Musical Wonder House

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

Morristown, New Jersey

Morris Museum

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

Machines of the Isle of Nantes

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

Musee de la Magie

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

San Francisco, California

Musée Mécanique

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.