Step aside Monsieur Verne, science is our guide in this very cool online journey to the center of the Earth.

As you scroll through the layers, each offering articles about it, a counter in the upper right corner counts out your depth and your the ambient temperature there:

To the very center:

(which, for fans of Verne, is disappointingly bereft of dinosaurs and Morlocks)

Drill deep into the mysteries of our home planet, from the surface all the way down to the core.

Here’s 3 of the 27 articles:

Visit a Vertical Underwater Cave in Belize

Largest Asteroid Crater Ever Discovered Underground in Australia

Happy Birthday to Inge Lehmann, the Woman Who Discovered Earth’s Inner Core

Source: Journey to the Center of Earth | Science | Smithsonian