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Nave Espacial de Varginha

Varginha, Brazil

Nave Espacial de Varginha

This spacecraft-shaped water tower is only a part of the mysterious UFO mania in this Brazilian town.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Munich, Germany

Eisbachwelle

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Hessdalen AMS

Holtålen, Norway

Hessdalen AMS

Research station devoted to mysterious floating lights seen in a Norwegian valley.

Watari-Kashiwabara's Pylon 24. (Creative Commons)

Mito, Japan

Watari-Kashiwabara's Pylon 24

The only electricity pylon built over two lanes of traffic.

Saint Lawrence River HVDC Powerline Crossing. (Creative Commons)

Grondines, Québec

Saint Lawrence River HVDC Powerline Crossing

Extremely long cable tunnel buried under the river.

Pylon 9108. (Wikimedia Commons)

Fulda, Germany

Pylon 9108

Electricity pylon standing in the middle of a shelter.

Lawn Cross.

Eisenberg an der Raab, Austria

Eisenberg Lawn Cross

Cross mysteriously appeared for 36 years.

Last pylon of "Anlage 0704" close to Nehren substation. (Alpha/Atlas Obscura)

Nehren, Germany

Anlage 0704

Powerline dead since the 1980s despite appearances.

Deutschlandsender III. (Wikimedia Commons)

Herzberg, Germany

Deutschlandsender III

Remains of a huge radio tower.

The unfinished TV Tower Berlin-Müggelberge. (Wikimedia Commons)

Berlin, Germany

Fernsehturm Müggelberge

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

Gurun Electric Converter Temple.

Gurun, Malaysia

Gurun Electric Converter Temple

Temple-like building holds power equipment.

At the hill - RSDN-3/10, Crimea. (Wikimedia Commons)

Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District, Russia

Dudinka CHAYKA-Mast

Unused mast taller than every structure in the EU.

Noviken VLF Transmitter

Gildeskål, Norway

Noviken VLF Transmitter

Large military radio station without transmitting towers.

View from West onto the static inverter hall of the Wolmirstedt HVDC-back-to-back plant. (Wikimedia Commons)

Wolmirstedt, Germany

Wolmirstedt Converter Hall

Where the interconnection of German power grids should be.

Radio Bloemendaal circa 1984

Bloemendaal, Netherlands

Radio Bloemendaal

Small transmitter operated by a priest in the Netherlands.

Bayer Cross

Leverkusen, Germany

Bayer Cross

Largest illuminated advertisement sign in the world.

Stenkullen ACDC Pylons

Lerum, Sweden

Stenkullen ACDC Pylons

Only electricity pylons carrying both AC and DC circuits.

Huddersfield Sailing Club Race Control Tower

Holmfirth, England

Huddersfield Sailing Club Race Control Tower

Collapsed television tower finds new life as a control tower for boat races.

BREN tower in
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Nye, Nevada

BREN Tower

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

Crossing of 400 kV DC line CU ( on large pylons) of 250 kV DC line Square Butte ( on small pylons).

Tuttle, North Dakota

CU / Square Butte Crossing

Only place outside China and India where two overhead DC power lines cross.

A motorcade drives past the Uniroyal Giant Tire.

Allen Park, Michigan

Uniroyal Giant Tire

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

A strainer of the 380 kV-Powerline between Lübeck-Siems and Lübeck-Herrenwyk

Lübeck, Germany

380 kV-Powerline between Lübeck-Siems and Lübeck-Herrenwyk

Only 380 kV Powerline in Europe not directly interconnected to the European 380 kV Grid.

Termoelektrarna Toplarna Ljubljana

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Termoelektrarna Toplarna Ljubljana

Colorful power station with a chimney equipped with a gallery for exhaust monitoring equipment.

St Johns Beacon

Liverpool, England

St Johns Beacon

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.

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