Inventors

The only dome home to be owned or occupied by dome inventor Buckminster Fuller.

The final resting place of the visionary founders of Kelloggs, a global leader in breakfast cereals.

One of the few places in the world that let's you legally relieve yourself on a UNESCO world heritage site.

In this rural town square, a unique statue honors the inventor of the microchip.

A larger-than-life monument to the inventor of the Bunsen burner.

An ingenious way to immortalize the inventor of universal time.

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

An enormous factory from the late 1800s sits abandoned on Cleveland eastside.

The only bicycle museum in the Netherlands charts the invention of the now-ubiquitous two-wheeled machine.

The birthplace of the man who patented the cotton gin and pioneered interchangeable parts.

A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

Thomas Edison's home and final resting place also boasts an impressive garage, where some of the earliest electric cars are on display.