Atlas Obscura's Guide to the Longest Running Scientific Experiments

Nuclear test sites, flamingos, and stereoscopes. | [View in your browser] Sep 7, 2016 [Image] [The Longest Running Scientific Experiments] [We've created a guide to experiments—some brilliant, some unethical—that have outlived the scientists who started them.] [Image] [Atomic Tourism] [Here's a list of nuclear test sites left behind from the atomic age that you can still visit today.] [Image] [Life as a LEGO Master Builder] [We spoke to a former LEGOLAND California Master Model Builder about the challenges, joys, and surprising dangers of tinkering with toy blocks.] [Image] [Flamingos in the Bathroom] [Why a flock of 30 flamingos were stuffed in the bathroom of the Miami Metrozoo in 1992.] [Image] [3-D Photography of the 1950s] [The stereoscopic viewer was the hero of a beautiful and forgotten photography craze.] [Image] [Devilish Domes] [These abandoned Domes built in Arizona in the late 70's and early 80's are rumored to be a place of ritualistic satanic worship.Â] [Image] SPONSORED OFFER [Find Summer Thrills] [Pack your Florida vacation with thrills! The Bradenton-Anna Maria Island-Longboat Key area has plenty of ways to do it.] [Image] Image of the day On the eastern side of the sierras in California is Devils Postpile, [an unsual rock formation of over 400 symmetrical basalt columns towering 600 feet]. (Photo: [Cooper.ch/CC BY-SA 3.0]) [Image] [Share a Discovery] [ADD A PLACE TO THE ATLAS?] [Image] [Facebook] [YouTube] [Twitter] [Instagram] [Pinterest] [View in Browser] • [Forward to a Friend] [atlasobscura.com] • [info@atlasobscura.com] 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222 [Unsubscribe] [{EMAIL}] Â