The quietest place on earth will drive you insane

However, this will certainly not be the case if you find yourself in the quietest room in the world - no one can survive for more than an hour. In 2015, Microsoft built a room that is now officially designated in the Guinness Book of Records as the quietest place on Earth. A competitor for the anechoic titleAnother anechoic room is hoping to win the title of the quietest room in the world. The room is located at Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis and was designed by scientist Steven J. Orfield, who held the record for the quietest room before Microsoft broke it in 2015. A Guinness representative confirmed receipt of Orfield's referral and added that the Guinness World Records team is in the "process of evaluating his evidence and their review criteria."