Visit the Baikonur Cosmodrome

Submerged sunken forest in a turquoise lake.

Transform Mars into a habitable planet

Space theme park in Europe’s aerospace capital: a full-size Ariane 5, a Mir station mock-up and a planetarium.

Build rockets, kill Kerbals, learn orbital mechanics by accident.

Experience complete silence in an anechoic chamber, a room designed to absorb all sound reflections. Visit Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis (holds a Guinness World Record for the quietest place on Earth at -24.9 dB(A)) or the anechoic chamber at Microsoft's Building 87 (known for testing audio equipment). The extreme silence can be disorienting, and visitors often hear their own heartbeat and internal bodily sounds.

Step inside a working base like Port Lockroy or Vernadsky, post a card from the world’s southernmost post office and meet the scientists.

Nineteen masonry instruments from the 1730s, including a sundial accurate to two seconds.

Bill Bryson explains the universe, the atom and the dinosaurs as if to a friend in a pub.