La Cañada Flintridge, California
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
La Cañada Flintridge, California
NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Flagstaff, Arizona
An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.
Washington, D.C.
A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.
Devon Island, Nunavut
The closest thing to Mars on Earth.
Magdalena, New Mexico
Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.
Hanksville, Utah
A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
Meyrin, Switzerland
Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.
Flagstaff, Arizona
This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.
Antarctica
Largest sub-glacial lake ever discovered.
Ithaca, New York
Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.
Antofagasta Province, Chile
In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.
Pasadena, California
Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.
Bonne Terre, Missouri
A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan
World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.
Shchyolkovo, Russia
Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.
Parkes, Australia
This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Collinsville, Illinois
Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.
Lebanon, Kansas
Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.
Atchison, Kansas
The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.
Weskan, Kansas
A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.