nOS4 iOS 4, rebuilt from scratch and running in the browser

Retired Landmark Binocular Viewer A decommissioned coin-op tower viewer, sold with its service history

Buddy Icon Archive 514,752 AIM icons, each one filed with where it was found

CCCP Cook Book Sixty recipes, and many of the photographs are of food nobody could get

Gin Drinkers Line Eighteen kilometres built to hold for weeks, navigated by London street names, overrun in two days

The Mundaneum A search engine with a postal interface, fifteen million cards deep

Ransom Center Movie Posters Five thousand sheets that actually hung in Texas lobbies, free to download at printing size

Tironian Notes Cicero's secretary invented shorthand, and Dublin still parks by it

Mělník Chapel of Bones An anthropology professor arranged thousands of bones into a pile, a cross, and his own signature

The Bankes Homer Sixteen columns of Iliad 24, and a second man's handwriting all over them

Pneumatic Tube Mail Twenty-seven miles of pipe under New York, 600 letters to a canister, 35 miles an hour

Ansel Adams' National Parks Murals 226 photographs for a wall that was never built, free to download

The Torment of Saint Anthony Sold as workshop, cleaned, and re-read as the earliest Michelangelo

Edward Quin's Historical Atlas Twenty-one plates on which everything not yet discovered is engraved as black cloud, lifting one period at a time

Agloe, New York A town invented as a copyright trap, which then opened for business

The Archimedes Palimpsest A prayer book written across the only known copies of two lost Archimedes works

Japanese Anatomical Woodblock Prints Tiny workers run the body like a village, one gate labeled 'urine'

Gedenkstein Melitta Bentz The stone in a Dresden back street for the woman who fixed coffee in 1908

Königshöhle The cave that lent a Copper Age culture its name, and a hole in the roof the Devil is blamed for

The Moist Towelette Online Museum A decades-old shrine to vintage moist-towelette packaging, still adding to the shelves

John Margolies Roadside America Archive 11,710 free photos of the teapot gas stations and doughnut shops America paved over

The First Herculaneum Scroll, Read A 2,000-year-old scroll read in full without ever being opened

David Rumsey Map Collection 149,000 historical maps online, free, and searchable down to the text engraved on them

The 1911 Odyssey The earliest feature-length Odyssey on film — a restored 1911 Italian silent, free to watch