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Science

The Bizarre Gut Wound That Changed the History of Medicine

Beenish Ahmed May 1, 2014

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.

Land of Legends

Land of Legends

This Denmark theme park is part family attraction, part experimental archaeology project.

Picture of Mount Redoubt eruption, Alaska, April 21, 1990

Apocalypse Now?: Five Places That Could Destroy the World

Darmon Richter February 5, 2014

Moray

Moray

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Central Experimental Farm with the city of Ottawa in the background.

Ottawa, Ontario

Central Experimental Farm

A sprawling Victorian farm that has been surrounded by a capital city is one of Canada's greatest treasures.

Willow Springs, Illinois

Red Gate Woods

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

Einstein's living room.

Bern, Switzerland

Einsteinhaus

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

The wind harshed this one.

Delta Solar Ruins

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

Mount Hamilton, California

Lick Observatory

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

Permanently Closed

Institute For Figuring

Los Angeles, California

Institute For Figuring

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

Fort Alexander

Fort Alexander

A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.

A pack of Radium-laced cigarettes at the Musée Curie.

Musée Curie

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Ricketts used the concrete tanks behind the lab to hold the specimens he collected

Monterey, California

Doc Ricketts' Lab

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Parkes, Australia

Parkes Radio Telescope

This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.