Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard Lampoon Building
The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Cape Town, South Africa
This historic observatory was established to keep shipwrecks from littering the Cape of Good Hope.
Villavieja, Colombia
A self-taught astronomer fell in love with the stars and built his own observatory in Colombia.
Santiago, Chile
This observatory high on a hilltop in the center of Santiago got its start in 1852.
Irbene, Latvia
This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.
Bath, England
Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
Windsor, Vermont
This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.
Terrace Bay, Ontario
This small archipelago in northern Lake Superior was formed by a massive meteorite impact 450 million years ago.
Saint Charles, Missouri
A frog crossed this road, but whether it made it to the other side remains a mystery.
Stamford, Connecticut
An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.