Retro-tech

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.