Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
40°51'30'' N, 73°27'59'' W
Located just outside the historic seaside town of Cold Spring Harbor, the eponymous laboratory sits on the former grounds of a 19th-century whaling company. The institution was founded in 1890 as a biology teacher training laboratory, but is now an international leader in molecular biology and cancer research.
Nobel-ity: Eight Nobel laureates have worked at the laboratory, including James Watson, who discovered DNA’s double-helix structure with Francis Crick in 1953.
Stretching 80 feet, the sculpture "Waltz of the Polypeptides" is one of the artworks on the Cold Harbor Spring Laboratory grounds. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Tour It: Learn about the lab’s Nobel legacy, historic architecture and current research in cancer and neuroscience on a 90-minute tour led by graduate students and postdoctoral candidates. Tours ($5) are offered from March through October. Reservations must be made seven days in advance; call 516-367-8455.
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