
It's a working calendar, an open-air observatory, and the largest lawn ornament in New Zealand. A dozen hardcore members of the Phoenix Astronomical Society spent two years (and $60,000) erecting Stonehenge Aotearoa on a plain outside Wellington. The latter-day druids consulted GPS and computer models and logged more than 1,000 hours of celestial observation before aligning the prefab stones with points on the horizon and in the heavens. (via Wired)