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Plane Mates at Dulles Airport.

Sterling, Virginia

Dulles Airport Mobile Lounges

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

Rjukan illuminated

Giant Sun Mirrors of Rjukan

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

Ewing Township, New Jersey

The Sarnoff Collection

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

The site in 2017.

Mountain View, California

The Real Birthplace of Silicon Valley-The Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory

The first high-tech company in the valley that actually worked with silicon devices.

Nuclear Ship Savannah from the side, docked in Baltimore. Check out that elongated atomic design.

Baltimore, Maryland

Nuclear Ship Savannah

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Seydisfjordur, Iceland

'How's It Going?' Phone Booth

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

Windcatcher of Dolat Abad in Yazd.

Dolat Abad Windcatcher

Long before air conditioning, Persian architects found an ingenious way to cool off.

Picture of the particle accelerator.

Elmhurst, Illinois

Barbara A. Kieft Accelerator ArtSpace

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

The last coal-burning steam engine.

Trinidad, Colorado

Steam Engine 638

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

The Bullitt Center

Seattle, Washington

The Bullitt Center

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

Can memes get people to care about ocean conservation?

What Ecologists Can Learn From Memes

Some scientists are studying YouTube comments and trying to go viral.

Jessica Leigh Hester May 1, 2018

The concert took place in front of Michelangelo's "The Last Judgment."

The Sistine Chapel Streamed a Concert Online for the First Time Ever

Don't worry if you missed it—the entire performance is available on Facebook.

Cara Giaimo April 23, 2018

Istanbul, Turkey

Museum of Energy

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

One-Million-Liter Test Sphere in 2001.

Frederick, Maryland

One-Million-Liter Test Sphere

This four-story steel sphere in Maryland was used to test biological weapons.

objects of intrigue

Making Art for Bees

Michael Candy's Synthetic Pollenizer is "a sculpture for a different species."

Cara Giaimo April 17, 2018

Meyrin, Switzerland

Birthplace of the Web

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

Tracked Levitated Research Vehicle.

Pueblo, Colorado

Forgotten Grumman TLRV

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

Can you see me now?

Can Octopuses Teach Us How to Hide?

Some researchers think their skin holds the key to ducking infrared cameras.

Jessica Leigh Hester April 3, 2018