Wind Turbine With Viewing Pod
North Vancouver, British Columbia
The world's first wind turbine with a viewing pod reached by elevator was built on a ski resort mountain just in time for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. It was considered such an important feat that it was given an important-soundng name: "Eye of the Wind."
Pretense aside, it's fun to take an elevator 20 stories to the top of a wind turbine that already stands at the 4,100-foot crest of a mountain that's next to an ocean. The viewing pod is wrapped in glass and has windows in the floor for straight-down views. It's suspended just below the hub of the 122-foot-long blades, slowly whoop-whooping in front of your face in the wind.