Attach a fuse if possible. From 60 volts, attach another transformer, from 6v to 120 volts, and out the other end, you get 1200 volts - enough to do some serious damage. The rod will be good for drawing sparks to another wire attached to ground. Just be careful. Well, that question seems to be more of a subjective question.
People explore because there is a quest for knowledge.
We will never know everything there is to know, and no one person can know all there is. But humanity as a whole can try to learn whatever there is to learn about ourselves and the universe - for the sake of science. There might be other life forms out there. The secret to diseases might be out there. The secret to understanding what the universe is made of is out there.