Infrastructure

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

The last working windmill in the U.K. that has eight sails.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

Long before air conditioning, Persian architects found an ingenious way to cool off.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.