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Industrial

Fabric at the Homespun Museum.

Asheville, North Carolina

Biltmore Industries Homespun Museum

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

Restored furnace top allows visitors to look down into the structure.

Moira Furnace

This early 19th-century blast furnace only survived because it was a financial and technical failure.

Morgantown, West Virginia

Henry Clay Iron Furnace

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

Hatgal, Mongolia

Abandoned Petroleum Distribution Center

Traces of the thriving lake trade that once linked the Soviet Union with Mongolia.

The old Pillsbury A-Mill building.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Pillsbury A-Mill

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

Old gas holder.

Abandoned Gas Holder

These ruins are all that remain of Tortosa’s lost coal gas manufacturing industry.

Brattleboro, Vermont

Estey Organ Museum

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

Buffalo, New York

Abandoned Wonder Bread Factory

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

Mary Smith using peas as an alarm clock.

Remembering the ‘Knocker-Ups’ Hired to Wake Workers With Pea Shooters

Rise and shine!

Paula Mejia May 18, 2018

Saturation divers do construction and demolition work at depths up to 1,000 feet or more, and must spend weeks living in a pressurized environment.

The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver

One of the world's most hazardous jobs is known for its intense pressure.

Jen Banbury May 9, 2018

St Monans windmill and salt pans.

Anstruther, Scotland

St Monans Salt Pans

The ruins of Scottish sea salt production.

Permanently Closed

Huta Etelka.

Nižná Slaná, Slovakia

Huta Etelka

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

Rolls of dressed fiber, South Manchester, Connecticut, 1914.

How Connecticut's Homegrown Silk Industry Unraveled

The problems began with a new variety of mulberry and ended with lumpy thread.

Taryn Skinner April 19, 2018

Istanbul, Turkey

Museum of Energy

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

Women of Steel.

Sheffield, England

Women of Steel

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

Permanently Closed

Kanavourgio.

Kanavourgio

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

Piece Hall.

Halifax, England

Piece Hall

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

Permanently Closed

Mitsero, Cyprus

Abandoned Mitsero Mines

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.