The Proton Pagoda, with its double-helix stairway, sits atop the Proton Laboratory at Fermilab high energy physics research lab, Batavia, Illinois. The Pagoda is glassed on four sides and rises some 30 feet from the ground, making it the best place from which to see the entire outlying experimental areas. From the vantage point of the control deck of the Pagoda a 360 degree view is possible. But the three experimental halls controlled from the Pagoda - P-East, P-Center, and P-West - lie buried deep underground. The building houses the control center for the Proton Experimental area. Protons accelerated in Fermilab's giant Tevatron accelerator are deflected from their orbital paths into a switchyard, where a number of separate beams are produced to serve three experimental areas, including the proton area.