Gizmodo has posted a list of the 14 Immense Scientific Instruments You Won't Believe Are Real but are very cool. They include the:
- Daya Bay neutrino detector
- Super-Kamiokande, a large Cherenkov detector
- ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) particle detector
- Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment
- Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO)
- Borexino Experiment (measures solar neutrino flux)
- Cockcroft Walton generator
- Z Pulsed Power Facility (largest x-ray generator)
- Gammasphere, a gamma ray detector
- Joint European Torus (JET) vessel, the largest tokamak in the world
- National Ignition Facility (NIF)
- NASA's cryogenic testing chamber
- Large Diameter Centrifuge (LDC)
- Large Space Simulator
Daya Bay neutrino detector