(I was at a conference at CERN).

It's BIG, but a bit cramped for having a DM in, I'd have thought... amazing gigantic almost Victorian-style machinery though. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lag2ooJUZ3E 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkerAQCmV_o&NR 

thanks Lun.

Of course it's all gonna go tits up once the manned missions begin and we start the excavations... 

I actually think the fifth video in that series is the best though for the pure speculation and apparently drug induced imagery.

Living creatures with heat rays and ultrasonic weapons? Rock on. 

While the fifth video has plenty of wtf moments, the sixth one is cool because of how close to a lot of modern thinking the journey is accomplished. 

you are physicist? 

http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Antonio_Gaudi.html 

No, mathematician/computer scientist, I was at CERN for a computing conference. Did some particle physics in my degree though, so I knew a bit about what I was seeing (the best part of the tour though was having a real live CERN scientist as your guide you could pester with questions). 

nice! i'm going to into math and compsci myself (AI) so perhaps we will formulate devious plans together.. 

http://www.damnfunnypictures.com/html/Cool-Illustrations.html 

I would seriously buy a few of those if I could 

http://www.yerka.pl/

http://www.tendreams.org/yerka.htm 

Very nice builds...

http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2006/08/frank-lloyd-wright-architectual.html 

the last comment says it all - "Looks nice but I keep expecting someone to pop out and start shooting" :D 

Yep, I agree !! 

Very interesting; for me it serves as a perfect example to demonstrate how using real-world scale always feels too small in games. 

http://www.khulsey.com/main_english.html

although this leaves little room for creativity, you have to admire the skill and attention to detail that (good) technical illustrators have.

Look at this ship ffs... http://www.khulsey.com/empress_main.html 

I love this thread. 

Only a few of these can be considered level design related, but all of it is cool:

http://www.oncotton.co.uk/peter/index/index2.html 

(Paper) hats off. 

but there's some recent video from Chernobyl
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2006/10/chernobyl_example_what_we_made.html 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Architecture_stubs

note: the pages go on in chunks of 200 terms at a time. 

oh, the first time I learned to put up a post! 

More accelerators and particle collisions: the CERN photo collection
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/collection/Photos

CERN is the European version of Fermilab, featured in Dan Brown's book Angels & Demons. It is also the birthplace of the WWW - yup, the web was invented to do particle physics! Go figure.