Exploratorium at Pier 15, San Francisco

The Exploratorium was founded by physicist and educator Frank Oppenheimer, brother of renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Oppenheimer was a target of McCarthyism and was blacklisted from finding any physics teaching position in the US until 1957.

Hour by hour, the water in these 24 columns creates a full-scale graph of the day's tide heights.

20-minute geyser.This geyser's regular eruptions depend on the water's temperature and pressure.

The colored areas represent different types of bacteria that get their energy from light. The Grand Prism story shows it in the real world.

Self-centered mirror on the left (say "hi" to your handsome photographer in the mirror) with self-excluding mirror on the right.

The giant mirror that shows people upside down.

The model dances and wiggles realistically, displaying the same vibrational modes and motions that occur in the actual bridge.

Great bay view from the deck.