Instruments Of Science in New Mexico

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

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