Right at the entrance, we were greeted by an array of rockets used over the years. The specific names of all the models escape me, but the largest one is the legendary Saturn 5 model - the most powerful machine ever built by man.

The business end of this rocket looks more like a tangled mess of tubes and wires, but its a very advanced and complicated machine.

Instead of a boring fountain, the center had a map of the cosmos carved into a 2 ton granite sphere, suspended and slowly rotating on a water base. With enough force you could spin it a different direction!

The solid state rockets and liquid fuel tank for the Atlantis Space shuttle, The picture doesn't do any justice to just how massive this is.

A panorma with a view of several facilities. The location this was shot from was formerly a public viewing area for space launches, but has been deemed too dangerous since then.

One of NASA's two land crawlers, currently being outfitted for SpaceX missions.

This building is where every NASA space vehicle is assembled. Again, the picture does no justice to the height of this building.

Another one of NASA's land crawlers, hiding inside.

Looking out into the Atlantic, one of the main launch platforms would have been behind me. According to our guide this little bunker was used to house sensitive equipment for detecting electricity in the air, as lightning is a grave threat to launches.

3 lightning towers designed to direct bolts away from the launch pad that they surround.

The business end of a decomissioned Saturn 5. Walking the length of this rocket takes minutes! 20 tons of fuel per minute would flow through here.

A list of mission status and abort codes from the Apollo era. View full size to read it.

The retired Space Shuttle Atlantis. 'Murica!

That's the last of the space pictures, I took a few quick shots of birds outside my hotel a few days later on the same trip.

"What you lookin' at?"

A gull dive-bombing to catch a fish, at the moment of impact. Took quite a few trys to capture this!

Deck of the Whiteface Lodge, at the foot of Little Whiteface and Whiteface mountains

Looking out over the grounds of the area, many local vendors set up tents to show off their homemade products every year.

The quickest way to the top of Little Whiteface! 

A group of 3 yodelers and their alphorns, these instruments were traditionally used for communicating mountaintop to mountaintop in the past.

Inside the Whiteface Lodge, the Yodelers teamed up with a traditional German band, DSB die Schlauberger.

I really wish this photo came out better. Oh well!

This guy was awesome.

Can't beat that view! This is why I love the Adirondacks.

Halfway up the mountain, looking down.

A better view of the festivities below. The line across the picture is the arm-size cable hauling our gondola to the summit.

Nearly there! And an amazing view of the surrounding mountains.

We met our yodeling friends from earlier, they were demonstrating how sound from their alphorns could be bounced off other mountains and heard echoing. Very neat demo!

Facing the opposite direction as the previous photo, the view of Whiteface from Little Whiteface.

The business end of some of these horns. Looking east.

Very pretty!

Facing north, a good view of the ski trails connecting the two mountains.

A short distance from the gondola drop-off, the peak of Little Whiteface.

A tribute to soldiers of a local division in WWII, a gift from Italy.

Not the best photo, but I think it came out alright considering the range was about 12 miles.

Another long distance shot at about 8 miles, the Olympic Bobsled run at Mt. Van Hoevenberg.

Facing west, the view of Lake Placid from the mountain.

My "Cannon" and my ticket.

Entrance to the facility - and my car!

Judging from the abundance of 440 volt hookups in the building, this likely was some sort of machine shop.

Back door to the machine shop.

Rusting silo between concrete silos for holding iron ore. It looked like there was more machinery on top of the silos that had rusted away and collapsed.

Tree blocking a doorway.

Outside view of another building showing the decay of the area.

Even older looking stairs - the mine has history back to the 1800s, but this is probably not that old. The building on top of it appears to have burned, leaving behind electric wires and boxes.

...With no bucket. Likely a Massey Ferguson 450.

Outdoor view of the first building, the roof on this side is nearly rotted through. Most of the buildings were built with cinderblock walls, metal trusses, and wooden roofing.

Inside another building, some sort of workshop.

The guts of the transformer were missing, probably stolen by copper thieves.

One of the few two-story buildings, with major fire damage inside.

Some sort of office area, completely rotted out.

Likely decimated by vandals.

The office/bathroom is inside this building, and the first building in the album is visible through the trees in the background.