Places LewisWasHere Wants to Go

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Giant telescope mirrors built in a spinning furnace under a college football stadium.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

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

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

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

An abandoned Nazi explosives plant founded by the inventor of dynamite is now an underground museum.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

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

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

Once the world's biggest telescope, it was later used as a coat hanger by a famous Dutch astronomer.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

Site of the first official transatlantic wireless communications.

This giant satellite antenna services the transmission needs of government agencies and cable programmers.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.