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Copenhagen, Denmark
Elephant Gate
Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.
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Rockefellers to Divest of Oil, Which Made the Family's Fortune
The family now believes that oil exploration threatens us all.
industrial
Inside the Shady, Dangerous Business of Shipbreaking
Getting rid of giant ships is a hazardous operation.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Monongahela Incline
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
O Rosal, Spain
Mills of Folon and Picon
"Satisfying" is a good way to describe these beautifully aligned rows of Spanish mills.
Kawasaki, Japan
Ajinomoto MSG Factory
One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.
Clipstone, England
Clipstone Colliery Headstocks
These abandoned coal mine towers near Sherwood Forest might soon boast the U.K.’s longest zip-line.
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New Hampshire Mill Workers Invented A New Type Of French
Chicago, Illinois
Carroll Avenue
A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jones Island Water Reclamation Facility
A factory in Milwaukee where poop is reclaimed… and recycled.
Kawasaki, Japan
Keihin Industrial Ward
An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.
Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Watermills of Jajce
This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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The American Textile Industry Was Woven From Espionage
Oregon City, Oregon
Willamette Falls
The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.
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The Indestructible Appeal of the Wrecking Ball
Genola, Utah
Tintic Standard Reduction Mill
The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.
Permanently Closed
Beacon, New York
Dennings Point Ruins
This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.
Broad Run, Virginia
Ruins of the Chapman Beverley Mill
This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.
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