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Retro-tech

1930s-era service station

Wetaskiwin, Alberta

Reynolds-Alberta Museum

An automotive, farming machinery, and aviation museum located in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada.

Permanently Closed

Brooklyn, New York

Pratt's Steam Whistle Christmas

Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.

New York, New York

Roosevelt Island AVAC System

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

Permanently Closed

Brooklyn, New York

Pratt Institute Engine Room

Haven for steampunks.

Submarine Peral

Cartagena, Spain

Submarine Peral

The world's first electric battery-powered submarine.

High Wycombe, England

Mayor Weigh-In

17th-century tradition of public weighing is met with boos or cheers depending on the Mayor's weight.

McLean, Virginia

Patowmack Canal

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

MINOS neutrino detector

Tower, Minnesota

Soudan Underground Mine State Park

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

Plane in Hangar B

Brooklyn, New York

Floyd Bennett Field

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

Stones for the guilotine

Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Scarborough, England

Peasholm Park's Naval Battles

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

Johnstown Inclined Plane

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Johnstown Inclined Plane

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

Museum of Soviet Arcade Games

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Museum sign

Bowie, Maryland

National Capital Radio & Television Museum

The development and impact of electronic media showcased in a picturesque farmhouse in Maryland.

The exterior of the Drottningholms Slottsteater (Flickr/Holger Motzkau)

Drottningholms Slottsteater

18th century opera in its original splendor.

Right part of the relief (Wikimedia Commons)

Dandarah, Egypt

Dendera Light

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

The mysterious rainbow bridge depicted in the Qingming Scroll (WikiCommons)

Changzhi, China

Rainbow Bridge

Nova reconstruction of the bridge that baffled engineers for years.

Tataouine, Tunisia

Ksar Ouled Soltane

A 15th-century granary that played the role of futuristic slave quarters in the world of 'Star Wars.'