Ai Pioppi in northern Italy is a handmade amusement park whose rides are driven by gravity and human effort.

Vertical mesh collectors can turn wind-driven fog droplets into usable water without pumps.

The Mechanical Turk appeared to play chess autonomously while concealing a human operator inside its cabinet.

Monowi, Nebraska is an incorporated village with one resident, who performs the town's civic jobs and keeps a public library.

On January 10, 1992, a container carrying nearly 29,000 plastic bath toys fell into the North Pacific.

While two Apollo 14 astronauts walked on the Moon, Stuart Roosa circled above with roughly 400 to 500 tree seeds tucked into his personal kit.

FLIP looked like a ship until the crew flooded one end.

Sometime in the second half of the 1500s, a maker packed an iron clockwork into a wooden friar scarcely 16 inches tall.

A Utah bank wanted a handsome pressed-brick face.

The diabolical ironclad beetle cannot escape trouble by flying.