About Industry Tours

Industry Tours is a big list and map of places where you can see how science, engineering and industry work: national labs, observatories, dams and power plants, factories with process tours, and technology and industrial-history museums. Each listing links the official page that says how to visit, records the rules that decide whether you can go (days open, booking, age or ID rules, seasons), and shows when it was last checked.

298 places so far.

Listings can be wrong

Listings can be wrong, and things change: tours get suspended, seasons end, booking rules move. Always confirm on the official page before you go. If something is out of date, write to hello@industrytours.net.

Take it with you

Every view of the map and the list can be downloaded as KML (for Google My Maps or Google Earth) or GeoJSON. All places at once: KML · GeoJSON.

Credits

• Map: OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap contributors, rendered with MapLibre.
• Data from Wikidata (coordinates and identifiers, CC0).
• Some pins: the US Census Bureau Geocoder.
• City and ZIP code search: US Census Bureau Gazetteer files.
• Photos are credited under each one, with their licences.

More

See the terms and privacy pages, and the first note on why it exists.