Astronomy

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

This Brazilian astronomy museum allows guests to gaze at the stars through their telescopes each weekend.

This abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Tens of thousands of rocks make up what is thought to be a giant star calendar.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

An unassuming grey box sitting on San Francisco's Pier 17 is a "sky diary" of the coastal city's temperamental weather.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.