I LOVE ancient things. Touching history haptically or intellectually somehow attaches me to history itself.
I love ruins in Mexico as you are allowed to touch them (fewer and fewer though).
Touching carvings thousands of years old brings images in my mind of how people lived then.
GGG rocks!
I'm that way with ancient Egyptian artifacts, a real menace. :') I'm probably done now, having touched at least one thing from the Old, Middle, and New Kingdom periods (when the guards turned their backs to me during their rounds).