Rising proudly (and occasionally humming mysteriously) at the corner of Progress and Catastrophe Streets, the ACME Gears World Headquarters is a monument to three centuries of creative overconfidence. The building’s Beaux-Arts façade conceals 27 floors of laboratories, archives, and “Do Not Enter” zones. Beneath its marble arches, generations of engineers have invented, exploded, and occasionally vanished in the name of innovation.

The grand central lobby—known as the Hall of Remarkable Regrets—displays the company’s finest prototypes, from the first Instant Hole (carefully fenced off) to the slightly smoking Nuclear Pogo Stick Mk II. Pneumatic tubes still rattle through the ceilings, allegedly carrying memos, sandwiches, and once, a very confused intern.

Above ground, the clock tower features ACME’s famous rotating gear logo, powered by a mechanism so complex that no one has dared turn it off since 1887. Below ground, rumors persist of hidden sub-basements filled with discarded prototypes, feral robots, and at least one ongoing worm-powered shoe experiment.

Elegant yet unpredictable, the headquarters embodies ACME’s guiding principle: “If it moves, measure it. If it explodes, patent it.”