A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

The only museum about the history of dentistry in Canada.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

This small university museum houses a priceless collection of scientific instruments.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

Philippine art and culture are on display at this university museum.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.

The Lund University's former gym houses a museum focusing on the creative process of art.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

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

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

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

For more than half a millennia, this automaton has rung an hourly bell.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.