A science teacher's dream.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

The largest drain hole in the world.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

This humble star-gazing center touts itself as the "Birthplace of American Astronomy."

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

This observatory comes complete with three separate telescopes and a dedicated community of amateur and expert astronomers.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

Tiny observatory made big contributions to the study of the Earth's motion.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

Annual convention held by the largest pyrotechnic community in the world.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.