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Infrastructure

The Manmade Marvel of the Baltimore Sewers

Atlas Obscura January 6, 2016

A street planning map from 1821 by John Randel

The Hidden Bolts that Drive Manhattan's Infrastructure Nerds Nuts

Cale Weissman September 28, 2015

Fayetteville, West Virginia

New River Gorge Bridge

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

USPS Remote Encoding Facility

Salt Lake City, Utah

USPS Remote Encoding Facility

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Jacksonville Interchange Spiral from above.

Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville Interchange Spiral

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

Its Walls in Ruins, a Mumbai Suburb Turned to Art and Was Reborn

Jack Thomas Yarwood November 14, 2014

New York, New York

Marilyn Monroe’s Subway Grate

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A Quarantine Island, Abandoned Railroad, and More NYC Ruins That May Soon Be Reclaimed

oriana leckert October 20, 2014

Incredible Photographs of the Monumental Power Station That Electrified the Manhattan Rails

Allison Meier September 30, 2014

Halnaker, West Sussex, UK.

Holloways: Roads Tunneled Into the Earth by Time

Allison Meier September 25, 2014

The 19th-Century Iron Balls Still Cleaning the Paris Sewers

Allison Meier September 22, 2014

Abandoned Fort Tilden.

New York City's 11 Most Accessible Ruins

Kimberly Wadsworth August 25, 2014

Infiltrating London: Subterranean Exploration in the British Capital

Darmon Richter August 5, 2014

Exploring the Storm Drains of Melbourne, a Secret Labyrinth of Tunnels and Creepy-Crawlies

Darmon Richter July 23, 2014

Copyrighting Cartography with Fictional Places

Bess Lovejoy July 15, 2014

No Trains Required to Ride the Rails

Eric Elder June 10, 2014

The Riskiest Roads in the World

Mic Florendo June 4, 2014

The Planes, Soviet Trains, and Rare Automobiles of North Korea

Eric Elder May 28, 2014