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Dowth, Ireland

Newgrange

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.
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Salzburg, Austria

Schloss Hellbrunn

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.
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Roubaix, France

La Piscine

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.
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Cahors, France

Pont Valentre

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.
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Paris, France

Musée National de la Marine

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.
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Greatstone, England

Greatstone Sound Mirrors

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.
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Scarborough, England

Peasholm Park's Naval Battles

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.
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Brighton, England

Madeira Lift

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.
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London, England

Traffic Light Tree

A student driver's nightmare.
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Isle of Anglesey, Wales

Parys Mountain

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.
Allison Added by Allison
Brooklyn, New York

Pratt Institute Engine Room

Haven for steampunks.
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London, England

Ruins of the Crystal Palace

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.
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London, England

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Abstract dinosaur models in London.
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Brooklyn, New York

New York Transit Museum

Ride the subways of yesteryear.
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New York, New York

Grand Opening 139 Norfolk

Check your calendars; you might be attending a drive-in movie or sitting next to a fashion runway.
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New York, New York

The Relic Chapel at the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.
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London, England

Get Stuffed

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.
Shropshire, England

Three Tuns Brewery

The oldest working Brewery in Britain.
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Starcross, England

Starcross Engine House & Brunel’s Atmospheric Railway

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the great Victorian engineers, was the driving force behind the short-lived atmospheric railway.
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Bournemouth, England

Memento Mori Oddities Shop

A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.
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Northleach, England

Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music

Music boxes like you've never imagined.
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Tisbury, England

Old Wardour Castle

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.
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New York, New York

Mmuseumm

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Rome, Italy

Centrale Montemartini

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.
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