Places solarconstant Wants to Go

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

This battery powered bell has been ringing since 1840 and is one of the worlds longest running science experiments.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

Oberweissbacher Bergbahn - a broad-gauged cable car capable transfering railcars.

Where giant ships go to die.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

One of the world's most complex timepieces.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.