Industrial

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

This disused boat elevator was saved from the scrap heap so that visitors could tour its rusting skeleton.

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.

The shipyards along the outskirts of the Bangladesh capital are a flurry dangerous boat breaking and rebuilding.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

Only a handful of these gorgeous historic waterwheels remain but even those are in danger from local unrest.

Boats must transform into railroad cars to navigate this Polish canal.

This huge industrial sculpture looks like a UFO and a factory had a baby.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

The remains of a paranoid inventor's hidden workshop lie in beautiful ruins amidst a Canadian park.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.