World’s Largest Quilting Needle

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

The World Heritage-designated site of Japan’s industrial revolution, once mistaken as a den of vampires.

This decaying, grandiose tweed mill once housed the Norwegian Army in exile.

A tiny museum dedicated to the charkha, a traditional spinning wheel that became a symbol of national resistance during Gandhi's freedom movements.

One of the techniques used to construct this 1797 mill was later incorporated into modern skyscrapers.

The only museum in the world dedicated to the global, historic, and modern art of beadwork.

A larger-than-life representation of the humble aloe plant.

Housed in a historic 1840 home, this museum provides a window into the lives of everyday, 18th- and 19th-century Bulgarians.