Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, Virginia

This is a roadway research facility, operated by the Department of Transportations Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Research, Development, and Technology.  It opened in 1950, and was expanded in 1983, with additional lab and office space.  It now has more than a dozen labs, in three primary buildings, and studies safety, pavement, bridges, computer-aided driving systems, and other highway phenomenology, despite not having much space to do so, as the CIA took over most of the property originally allotted for the Department of Transportation site when its headquarters was built there in 1959-1961.