The Mackinac Bridge, also known as "Mighy Mac" or "Big Mac," stretches some five miles long and connects  Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas.  Outside a storage facility in St. Louis, Michigan, you can find a miniature replica of the Mackinac Bridge. Though it's more than 200 times smaller than its larger cousin up north. The Mini Mac Bridge stands...

Around 100 miles west of London in the west Wiltshire town of Bradford-on-Avon, a restored large rubber calender machine stands as a memorial to the town's 150th year of association with the rubber industry. Located on Kingston Road, it is one of the largest and heaviest objects in the village's museum collection. A calender is a machine used: to...

On an early February morning in 2024 at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, David Westenberg dons safety goggles and latex gloves. The bespectacled microbiologist and professor of biological sciences for the last 27 years gently removes a series of test tubes containing strains of Escherichia coli from a crisp freezer set to minus 112...

Visitors to Sand Cave, tucked inside Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, will be surprised to find themselves standing on beach-like sand, rather than stone. The cavern’s sandy floor is mostly due to erosion.  The cave was once a huge piece of sandstone, but over many years, wind hollowed out the rock, forming Sand Cave, a 250-foot wide grotto...

As this museum likes to remind visitors, it is "more than just a quilt museum." Located in a three-story, century-old heritage building, the nonprofit showcases everything in the extended quilting world from toy sewing machines to vintage thimbles. They claim to have the largest collection of sewing machines in the world, as well as the largest spool...

South of Panaji, the capital of the Indian state of Goa, there is a popular lookout point called the Dona Paula View Point. Hordes of tourists flock here every evening to see the sunset from a pergola perched atop a small hill. Many popular Bollywood movies have been filmed here, such as the first three installments of the comedy film Golmaal and a...