Places larryhockett Wants to Go

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

A neutrino detector built into the largest man-made underground cavity in the world.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

The middle finger of modernity.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.