This very dramatic slender brick smokestack is part of the MIT Research Reactor in Cambridge, MA. It acts as a landmark within an urban neighborhood as it stands alone in the wide open space. Massachusetts Ave. runs right by as it leads into Boston. The ascending shape tapers gracefully as it reaches high into the sky. In detail, a line of ladder rungs are embedded into the brickwork, beckoning who would be brace enough to climb such an precariously enormous height.