An amazing clockwork museum in the Val de Travers holds examples of various prestigious legacies horological history.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

Where Eunice Williams was murdered by natives, and where locals say her ghost still haunts.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.