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Manchester, England

Alan Turing Memorial

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.
Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Jaquet-Droz Automata

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.
Bletchley, England

National Museum of Computing

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.
Mountain View, California

Computer History Museum

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.
Stockholm, Sweden

Pionen Data Center

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.
Mons, Belgium

Mundaneum

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.
Edwards Air Force Base, California

World's Largest Compass Rose

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.
Korolyov, Russia

RKK Energiya Museum

This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.
New Zealand

Spacecraft Cemetery

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.
Lincolnshire, England

RAF Stenigot

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.
Los Angeles, California

Griffith Observatory's Tesla Coil

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.
Casa Grande, Arizona

Corona Satellite Calibration Targets

Concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland which were used to align spy satellites.