Industry

This museum seems tiny but is absolutely packed full of regional history.

A relic of the region's rich seaweed industry.

Weathered remnants of a coastal saltworks.

A 19th-century blast furnace that played a big role in the area’s industrial development.

A charming tour of the umbrella, tin-can, and drinking-straw capital of the world.

A bronze sculpture immortalizes a historic 1936, 26-day-long march for economic relief.

A relic of Poland's shipbuilding past, reborn as a sky-high lookout.

This abandoned concrete building was once hailed as an innovative architectural marvel, originally built to store sugar.

This Medieval tannery was accidentally discovered in 2002.

This crumbling warehouse was once the third-largest cannery in the U.S. and the first in the world to can green asparagus.

The World Heritage-designated site of Japan’s industrial revolution, once mistaken as a den of vampires.

This decaying, grandiose tweed mill once housed the Norwegian Army in exile.

This windmill has been grinding pigments for traditional paints for more than 200 years.

The legacy of the Ohio-founded Fostoria Glass Company lives on in West Virginia.

This restored 19th-century calender, a machine used in rubber manufacturing, commemorates the town's local industry.

The former site of the world's largest paper mill is now a museum preserving the heritage of Canada's pulp and paper industries.

A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.

The birthplace of the man who patented the cotton gin and pioneered interchangeable parts.