The coolness, the courage and the analytical skill of the shuttle astronauts, crawling around the skin of their tiny vessel, is a peculiarly modern sight.
Along another secluded roundabout near the A6 highway to Paris, we came across a more modern sight: a haggard-looking prostitute standing by her cramped red Fiat, where she patiently waited for clients.
But in a classic Bhutanese compromise, modern sights and trigger releases are not permitted.
Manchester, however, has made the cut, rubbing shoulders with Rome, Nashville, Mumbai and Dublin on a list that promises to provide the must-see modern sights for travellers.
This logo, though, is one of the saddest modern sights of all, and this from a city that produced the rightly world-famous London Transport logo.
And although we were close to the modern beach town of Ostia, aside from the occasional roar of a jet at Rome's main airport, we felt remote from modern sights and sounds.
This introduced an on-carriage hydropneumatic recoil-control system, a shield to protect the gunners, modern sighting, fixed ammunition, and a quick-acting breech mechanism thus forming the prototype of what became known as the "quick-firing gun".
The only reported modern sighting of a unicorn occurred in one of the delightful fables of James Thurber, and the reader was left in doubt about whether that mythical beast was really there.
This introduced an on-carriage hydropneumatic recoil-control system, a shield to protect the gunners, modern sighting, fixed ammunition, and a quick-acting breech mechanism thus forming the prototype of what became known as the "quick-firing gun". The idea was quickly taken up in other countries, and, by the outbreak of World War I (1914 18), such weapons were standard in all armies.
You can consider updating your old-school weapon by fitting it with more modern sights.
This buried treasure in Arizona has all the accoutrements of modern living — sights, boutiques and fine foods — for when the coyotes and cactuses just aren't enough.
