Instruments Of Science

Site of the first official transatlantic wireless communications.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

A neutrino detector built into the largest man-made underground cavity in the world.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

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

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

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

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

This sprawling collection hides many charms.