Factories

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

Over 60 chemical plants and oil refineries sit in a 15-mile-wide section outside town.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

For a century, the tallest building in Tasmania was a tower built to manufacture ammunition.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

The Japanese mayo factory famous for its cute mascot.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.