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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Viral Video of Cuckoo: During childhood, we would hear about the cuckoo bird and many of us also must have seen and heard the clocks chiming like the cuckoo. I don’t know how many were able to see and ...

James "Jim" Fiorentino worked for more than 40 years in the garage door business, but he didn't pursue his true longing until after he retired in 1990. "He never wanted to be in the garage door ...