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 ...

If you walked into Mary Foreman’s clock shop at the top of the hour, you would hear something she called “heavenly”: Dozens of chimes, bells and alarms would ring, from the chirps of the tiny cuckoo ...

Polished faces gleam from every corner of the room, yet the only sound inside this Elgin shop is a soft ticking. Keith Krantz, owner of the American Black Forest Clock Company, says he used to keep ...

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 ...

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Genius ideas in cuckoo technology: take the bright yellow, beady-eyed cuckoo bird popping his head in and out every hour on the hour. Replace with the blood-smeared visage of a homicidal Jack ...