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Electrical Oddities

Balgarevo, Bulgaria

Kaliakra Transmitter

Massive, unfinished broadcasting station stands as a monument to the fall of communism.

Celebration, Florida

Mickey Pylon

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

A tram crossing over the Schwamendingen X.

Zurich, Switzerland

The Schwamendingen X

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

A glimpse of the collection housed by the Chamsori Museum.

Gangneung, South Korea

Chamsori Gramophone and Edison Science Museum

Explore the history of recorded sound at the world's third largest collection of Edison memorabilia.

The voltaic pile at the Tempio Voltiano in Como, Italy.

Tempio Voltiano

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

Beam Wave Guide antennas at Goldstone

San Bernardino, California

Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

Illuminated at night by 97,000 bulbs

Mysore Palace

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

Roman heads alongside a diesel engine.

Centrale Montemartini

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

Portland, Oregon

The Vacuum Cleaner Museum

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

Photo by Anhie Nguyen

Santa Monica, California

Jadis

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

The machine of Grimeton VLF Transmitter

Grimeton, Sweden

Grimeton VLF Transmitter

A Very Low Frequency transmitter you can tune in on your PC.

Permanently Closed

Faraday Cage over Motorway at Heusweiler

Heusweiler, Germany

The Heusweiler Motorway Faraday Cage

A Faraday Cage protects cars from a nearby high-power transmitter.

Crescent, Oregon

Mount Thielsen Fulgurites

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

St Aidan's Walking Dragline

St. Aidan's BE1150 Dragline

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

A Moonlight Tower at night

Austin Moonlight Towers

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

London, England

Michael Faraday Memorial

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

Photo by James Woodcock.

Bozeman, Montana

American Computer Museum

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

Permanently Closed

Paynesville, Liberia

Paynesville Omega Tower

The dead gigantic radio tower of Liberia.