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The Morrow Plots
Urbana, Illinois

The Morrow Plots

The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.
Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences

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

Could Urban Algae Farms Clean Up Our Air?

oriana leckert November 4, 2014
Electric Ladyland in full color.
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Electric Ladyland: The Museum of Fluorescent Art

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.
science

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

oriana leckert October 14, 2014
Permanently Closed
Superconducting Super Collider
Waxahachie, Texas

Desertron: The Superconducting Super Collider

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.
Rothschild Patent Museum
Wilmington, Delaware

Rothschild Patent Model Collection

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.
A rusty steam-engine in the nearby jungle.
Sundi, São Tomé and Príncipe

Roça Sundy

This abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.
Harvard Bridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harvard Bridge

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.
Bradbury Science Museum
Los Alamos, New Mexico

Bradbury Science Museum

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
society adventures

Backyard Bugs: LA’s Unsung Biodiversity

Erin Johnson August 7, 2014
objects of intrigue

Objects of Intrigue: Look Radiant in Radium

Allison Meier June 25, 2014
science

Double Sunsets and Peasants with Pitchforks in the Trials of 18th Century Balloonists

Allison Meier June 4, 2014
science

The Bizarre Gut Wound That Changed the History of Medicine

Beenish Ahmed May 1, 2014
relics

Stolen Brains and Last Breaths: 6 Relics of Science

Dolly Stolze April 28, 2014
The Grand Kugel
Richmond, Virginia

The Grand Kugel

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.
The Palace Light bulb
Fort Worth, Texas

The Palace Light Bulb

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.
Santa Fe, New Mexico

109 East Palace

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.