Factories

An abandoned 19th-century iron factory perched along the outskirts of an idyllic village.

Once the largest rope factory in Greece, this abandoned plant now stands like a ghost of industry past.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

Make your own fake treats at this factory and workshop in the epicenter of Japan's food replica industry.

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

An abandoned socialist utopia built in the late 19th century.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

An abandoned textile factory on the "island of crows" was home to Estonia's first workers' strike.

Some of England's last cave dwellers lived and worked within this huge cave.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

Called the “General Motors of the piano industry,” these buildings once produced as many as 700 pianos a week.