Leonardo was also the Oppenheimer of his time...

Visited Leonardo Da Vinci's house in Amboise.

After going through the customary 16th century bedrooms, dining rooms and kitchens, you get to see small models inspired from his sketches. Many military barbaric devices, but also among others the parachute, the lift, the engine, various flying devices and architectural curiosities, lots of things with cogs...

Then you reach the gardens where they have life size models of at least 30 of the previous, with which the children can interact (they were quite frustrated at not being allowed to touch the models in the house). Oh and also an xbox application to get to drive Leonardo's 12-cannon tank, that was hard to get the boys away from...