FARGO – What began 10 years ago as a small collection of 16 nonworking clocks has ballooned into a store filled with 350 timepieces - cuckoo and grandfather, antique and contemporary - all ticking and ...

STURBRIDGE — Sturbridge is seemingly synonymous with history, from its first settlers in 1644 to the opening in 1946 of Old Sturbridge Village, which welcomes visitors to experience life in a rural ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Officially called the “NI-TELE Really BIG Clock,” four or five times a day this wacked ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. The Piekarskis are the owners, proprietors, and restorers in residence of ...

A few weeks ago my treasured 40-year-old chiming grandfather clock stopped chiming, but continued to keep time. Alone at home, at age 86, I missed the sound. Global concerns were descending as a ...

In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to see the wooden cuckoo at Edinburgh's famous floral clock. But much to his horror, when they got ...

Amazon announced its "Day 1" hardware program last year as a way to build unusual hardware products in limited quantities, get feedback from users and eventually make them more widely available. In ...

There are few better ways of asserting your independent spirit as a hardware hacker than by creating your own special timepiece. Even more so if the timepiece is a watch, particularly in this era of ...

In the Black Forest town of Triberg, visitors can marvel at a genuine world record holder: the largest cuckoo clock on the planet. Its dimensions are so enormous that you can actually step inside it.

George cheers as the cuckoo emerges from the floral clock at Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to ...