Metal

A museum dedicated to preserving, promoting, and advancing the art and craft of fine metalwork.

A collection of whimsical metal sculptures scattered along a forest path.

This metal installation is a tribute to an ancient megalithic structure and South Yorkshire's steel history.

Hundreds of "animals" created from scrap metal, alongside a collection of other oddities.

This prefabricated building was built in Belgium and shipped to Mozambique but was never inhabited, since its iron exterior was unsuitable for the tropical environment.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

A small mountain made entirely of banded iron stone overlooking downtown Ishpeming.

A giant scrap metal troll rests his hands on top of a dilapidated building covered in graffiti.

A charming easy-to-miss sculpture garden filled with whimsical and thought-provoking metal sculptures.

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.

This iron building in the Amazon allegedly shares an architect with the Eiffel Tower.

Once owned by the largest employer in Colorado, these ovens have been abandoned for over a century.

The only United States mine for magnesium carbonate has been operating continuously since the 1930s.

A place to appreciate the sweat and ingenuity it used to take to make a pot.

These conical kilns measure an impressive 30 feet in diameter, and were once used to produce charcoal for a local blast furnace.