Instruments of Science by Atlas Obscura
8 dias / 1854 milhas / 38 horas 19 minutos
According to the Atlas Obscura website "there is something NEW under the sun, every day, all over the world."
Attractions in this trip are entirely from the Atlas Obscura.
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Dia 1
Camera Obscura & World of Illusions
360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science
10:00 am - 75.5 milhas / 2 horas 9 minutos - 12:10 pm
England's "pier at the end of the universe" unites astronomy and contemporary architecture
1:10 pm - 127.8 milhas / 2 horas 49 minutos - 4:00 pm
Dia 2
Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926
9:00 am - 20.1 milhas / 50 minutos - 9:51 am
A museum devoted to the science of color
10:51 am - 221.9 milhas / 4 horas um minuto - 2:53 pm
Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus
3:53 pm - 69.7 milhas / uma hora 35 minutos - 5:29 pm
This battery powered bell has been ringing since 1840 and is one of the worlds longest running science experiments
6:29 pm - 0.6 milhas / 3 minutos - 6:33 pm
7:33 pm - 36.4 milhas / 51 minutos - 8:25 pm
Dia 3
Luxurious hotel designed to stir the imagination of its many visitors
10:00 am - 27.5 milhas / 43 minutos - 10:44 am
Clock of the Long Now: Prototype 1
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years
11:44 am - 0.8 milhas / 5 minutos - 11:50 am
Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life
12:50 pm - 4.3 milhas / 23 minutos - 1:14 pm
Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer
2:14 pm - 2.1 milhas / 15 minutos - 2:30 pm
Whispering Gallery at St. Paul’s Cathedral
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome
3:30 pm - 1.2 milhas / 9 minutos - 3:40 pm
Dia 4
Masonic Lodge of the Andaz Hotel
Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations
9:00 am - 83.3 milhas / uma hora 50 minutos - 10:51 am
Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft
11:51 am - 168.9 milhas / 3 horas 32 minutos - 4:24 pm
Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator
5:24 pm - 28.4 milhas / 48 minutos - 6:13 pm
The Zimmer Clock Tower and Museum
A 14th century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of a 20th century ingenious clockmaker
7:13 pm - 119.1 milhas / 2 horas 12 minutos - 9:26 pm
Dia 5
Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland
9:00 am - 9.6 milhas / 21 minutos - 9:22 am
A unique collection of gilded age mechanical pianos
10:22 am - 11.1 milhas / 25 minutos - 10:48 am
Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities
11:48 am - 25.8 milhas / 37 minutos - 12:26 pm
Plague Hospital and Madhouse turned Medical Museum
1:26 pm - 65.9 milhas / uma hora 17 minutos - 2:44 pm
Dia 6
An idyllic hotel that gave its name to a supposed shadow government
9:00 am - 102.5 milhas / uma hora 36 minutos - 10:37 am
This collection of solar timekeepers includes the world's first digital sundial
11:37 am - 59.7 milhas / 56 minutos - 12:34 pm
Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history
1:34 pm - 51.0 milhas / 50 minutos - 2:25 pm
A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards
3:25 pm - 149.5 milhas / 2 horas 26 minutos - 5:52 pm
Dia 7
A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel
9:00 am - 1.9 milhas / 12 minutos - 9:13 am
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments
10:13 am - 2.0 milhas / 12 minutos - 10:26 am
Foucoult's Pendulum and the Paris Pantheon
19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists
11:26 am - 0.6 milhas / 3 minutos - 11:30 am
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory
12:30 pm - 11.5 milhas / 27 minutos - 12:58 pm
François Richard's Scientific Devices and Odd Machinery
A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati
1:58 pm - 2.3 milhas / 14 minutos - 2:13 pm
Dia 8