Infrastructure

Dubbed Germany’s most accident-prone shopping street, this short stretch has seen around 30 cars crash into storefronts.

An Ohio man paved the way for the future of American transportation.

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.

The world’s second-largest flood defense barrier has protected London for decades.

An intersection between architecture, industrial construction, machine, and scientific instrument.

Slated for demolition in 1962, the historic Pomeroy-Academia Covered Bridge was saved by conservationists.

One of the few remaining railroad turntables is hidden near downtown Raleigh.

A Belgian town divided its water supply into six troughs, each with a specific use.

Malta’s oldest sea water distillation building is now an architectural anomaly on the Sliema waterfront.

A Roman water tunnel still flows 2,000 years on.

A river hides a charming medieval bridge.

An unexpected public exhibit showcases the diversity of Dutch street posts.

On the outside of the Mersey Tunnels, an Art Deco sculpture of an Egyptian Pharaoh wears goggles and racing gear.

Water still flows through the oldest Spanish aqueduct in America.

This California town keeps a graveyard of its retired, decorated fire hydrants.

Construction of this bridge was once described as an "act of violence" against a neighboring country.

Unrefined, uneven, and unstable—this is the real McCoy of Pakistani suspension bridges.