"The Universe's Ten Most Epic Projects"

Popular Science gallery on some really ambitious projects:

• Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider on Long Island, New York
• The Neptune ocean-observatory network off the coast of British Columbia
• The Very Large Array telescope in New Mexico (in photo)
• The National Ignition laser Facility in Livermore, California
• Juno, the Jupiter Orbiter
• Advanced Light Source, a particle accelerator in Berkeley, California
• The International Space Station
• Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
• The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland
• The Earthscope, with 4000 instruments across the US and Puerto Rico