The Giant Light Bulb

While crashing at a friend's house in Pittsburgh, he offered to show us a pretty unique place he had discovered - an atom smasher! I thought he was joking until a cursory internet search revealed that there was, in fact, an actual particle accelerator from the 1930s, just sitting on top of a hill, abandoned for decades. Sign me up!

Going late at night seemed to be the best idea, as the generator building was exposed to a row of homes, and the bright street lights illuminated the place quite well on their own. With our flashlights off, we slipped through the fence and into the lab...