Science in New Mexico

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

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

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

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.