Places brendan3133 Wants to Go

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Deep in the Negev Desert, the world's tallest solar tower looks like a sight straight out of science fiction.

This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

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

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.