An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A time-capsule monument reminding future generations of the importance of efficient and effective use of natural resources.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

The clock that sets them all.

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.