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solarconstant

solarconstant@msn.com

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Vienna, Austria

Gasometer Town

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Williams Bay, Wisconsin

Yerkes Observatory

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

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Trolltunga

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Brooklyn, New York

Atlantic Avenue Tunnel

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

Dylan

Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Ulugh Beg Observatory

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Cambridge, England

Queens' College Moondial

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

Josh

Dunedin, New Zealand

Beverly Clock

Running since 1864, this clock has yet to be wound, one of the longest-running science experiments known.

Astronomical Clock of Lyon

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Allison

Added by Allison

St. Mark's Clock Tower (Torre dell'Orologio)

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

The Zimmer Clock Tower and Museum

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

Jantar Mantar

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

Josh

Salisbury, England

Medieval Clock

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

San Francisco, California

Long Now Orrery

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Putty, Australia

Newnes Glow Worm Tunnel

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

Maple Ridge, British Columbia

Large Zenith Telescope

A large spinning bath of liquid mercury, used to probe the early universe.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Mesa Verde National Park

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

wythe

Pasadena, California

Hale Solar Laboratory

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

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Kaneohe, Hawaii

Ha'iku Stairs

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Genki

New Delhi, India

Iron Pillar of Delhi

An ancient iron pillar in Delhi that seems to be rustproof.

Dylan

Brisbane, Australia

The Pitch Drop Experiment

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

Dylan

Marble Canyon, Arizona

The Wave

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Added by renakaba

Daniel Campos, Bolivia

Uyuni Salt Flat

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Dylan

McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope

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

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Hole in the Ground

Massive crater in central Oregon.