What is the most famous laboratory in history?

Fourteen addresses where the work happened. Two are wooden sheds, one is a country house, one is a ring under the Swiss border.

1. 1
   Los Alamos

   The New Mexico site where the first nuclear weapons were designed under the Manhattan Project.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Bell Labs

   The industrial lab that produced the transistor, the laser, information theory and nine Nobel Prizes.
   875pts
3. 3
   Fermilab

   America's particle accelerator laboratory outside Chicago, where the top quark was found.
   700pts
4. 4
   The Salk Institute

   La Jolla biology institute, as famous for Louis Kahn's concrete as for its research.
   577pts
5. 5
   Tesla's Wardenclyffe lab

   Tesla's Shoreham laboratory and tower, built for wireless power and abandoned unfinished.
   500pts
6. 6
   Edison's Menlo Park lab

   The New Jersey workshop of the 1870s where the phonograph and the practical light bulb were developed.
   409pts
7. 7
   The Cavendish Laboratory

   Cambridge physics department that produced the electron, the neutron and the structure of DNA.
   409pts
8. 8
   Jet Propulsion Laboratory

   NASA's robotic-spaceflight centre, responsible for the Mars rovers and the Voyagers.
   409pts
9. 9
   CERN

   The European particle physics lab where the Higgs boson was found and the web was written.
   300pts
10. 10
    Skunk Works

    Lockheed's secret shop behind the U-2, the SR-71 and the first stealth fighter.
    300pts
11. 11
    Bletchley Park

    The English country house where Enigma traffic was broken during the Second World War.
    300pts
12. 12
    Xerox PARC

    Palo Alto research centre that invented the graphical desktop, the mouse interface and Ethernet.
    167pts
13. 13
    The Pasteur Institute

    Paris foundation for infectious disease research, where HIV was identified in 1983.
    167pts
14. 14
    Woods Hole

    The Massachusetts oceanographic institution whose expedition found the wreck of the Titanic.
    167pts