Telescopes

In the high desert east of Bend, the University of Oregon maintains a research observatory on a remote mountain peak.

Take in the beauty of the Milky Way at one of the best sites for stargazing in Nevada—a state with some tough competition.

An observatory with a 54-meter-wide radio telescope sits in the mountains of Armenia.

This Idaho state park boasts the tallest single-structured sand dune in North America.

Peer into the night sky with one of Norway's oldest associations of land-based space explorers.

An amateur telescope-making club has been gathering at this Vermont site for more than a century.

The headquarters of one of Japan’s leading astronomy research institutions features several historic observatory facilities and a 2,000-year-old burial mound.

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.

Switzerland's oldest public observatory is an important part of the Zurich cityscape.

A historical observatory still in use by modern astronomers.