The Viennese Clock Museum is housed in the Harfenhaus (Harpist's House), one of the oldest homes in Vienna. With around 1,000 clocks in all, there is much to see, from ornate pocket watches, to a... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Inspired Inventions, Astounding Timepieces, Long Now Locations | Edited by Dylan

Conceived by Jem Finer of London / Irish punk band The Pogues, Longplayer is a musical composition 1,000 years in length. Its first performance began at midnight on December 31, 01999 and will... »

Astounding Timepieces, Musical Wonders, Long Now Locations | Edited by LongNow

For over 2000 years a shipwreck lay off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera, its hidden treasures slowly corroded by the Mediterranean. It wasn't until 1900 that sponge divers happened... »

Unique Collections, Inspired Inventions, Astounding Timepieces, Instruments of Science, Retro-Tech, Long Now Locations | Edited by Trevor and wythe

The Peruvian capitol Lima is not the beauty it once was. It is vastly overcrowded thanks to perverse rural land policy that vacated the villages, suffused with the stench of fish factories. Its... »

Intriguing Environs, Cultures and Civilizations , Lost Tribes, Long Now Locations, Incredible Ruins, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by LongNow

One of the first realizations one has about Easter Island is, it's not an archipelago. There are no other islands surrounding it. No, in all directions there is nothing but empty ocean for greater... »

Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues, Retro-Tech, Intriguing Environs, Disaster Areas, Rites and Rituals, Lost Tribes, Long Now Locations, Curious Places of Worship, Incredible Ruins, Outsider Architecture, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by LongNow, re_nakaba and others

Built sometime around 1550-1292 B.C. as a capital city for the Nabataeans, an ancient Semetic peoples, Petra is perhaps one of the most astonishing wonders of the ancient world. It lay... »

Long Now Locations, Curious Places of Worship, Incredible Ruins, Subterranean Sites | Edited by LongNow

Sitting in the Science Museum of London, is the first prototype for the 10,000 year Clock, also known as the Clock of the Long Now, to be built in a a remote mountain site near Ely, Nevada.... »

Inspired Inventions, Astounding Timepieces, Instruments of Science, Long Now Locations | Edited by Dylan, Henry and others

It is a small monastery hung far up on a cliff overlooking a spectacular valley. It is also one of thirteen small monasteries or "tiger's lairs" where the Guru Rinpoche or "Precious Master" also... »

Long Now Locations, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by LongNow

The anthropologist/philosopher Gregory Bateson used to tell this story: Founded in 1379, New College, Oxford is one of the oldest Oxford colleges. It has, like other colleges, a great dining hall... »

Extraordinary Flora, Long Now Locations, Horticultural Marvels, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by LongNow

Yucca Mountain in southern Nevada is more a ridge than a mountain. Created by an extinct supervolcano, it slowly rises from a height of four thousand feet to six thousand feet along its’ length of... »

Instruments of Science, Long Now Locations, Subterranean Sites | Edited by LongNow