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The multicolored sign at Brixton Road.
London, England

Electric Avenue

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."
Shaki, Armenia

Shaki Waterfall

After visiting hours, this picturesque waterfall is essentially turned "off" to be used for hydroelectric power.
The entrance to the historic mosque.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.
Museum ENTER.
Solothurn, Switzerland

Museum ENTER

Its vast collection of wondrous gadgets details the fascinating history of information technology.
Tangub City, Philippines

Tangub City Christmas Symbols Festival

An annual festival full of illuminated replicas of iconic landmarks from around the world.
Tesla's wireless experimental station, Shoreham, Long Island, August 22, 1907.
infrastructure

Nikola Tesla Built a Giant Tower to Send Wireless Electricity Around the World

Ultimately, things didn't go as he had planned.
Sarah Laskow September 18, 2018
Majestic white exterior of the House of Wonders
Zanzibar, Tanzania

The House of Wonders

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.
The public art is located between the Helms Building and Platform in front of the Culver City Metro Station.
Culver City, California

Old Growth (New/Now)

A pair of disused Los Angeles electrical poles now glow with delicate windows into the past.
Examining coils that reduce plasma instabilities in the quest for controlled nuclear fusion using Z Machine.
Albuquerque, New Mexico

The Z Machine

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.
The MegaZapper.
Bellingham, Washington

SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.
Waves crash against the abandoned plant.
Øygarden kommune, Norway

Ocean Wave Power Plants

Ruins of two abandoned stations destroyed by the power they sought to harness.
The world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator demonstrates the power of electricity.
Boston, Massachusetts

World's Largest Air-Insulated Van de Graaff Generator

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.
Staufen geothermal cracks 2016 (some repairs made between 2013-2016)
Staufen im Breisgau, Germany

The Cracking Buildings of Staufen

A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.
Stairs to the theater
Dubuque, Iowa

Union Park

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.
Copper wire covered with asphaltum that was part of the first underground electrical system and used to illuminate Edison's home.
objects of intrigue

For Sale: A Wire From Thomas Edison's 1880 City Lighting Demo

The insulated copper wire was used to illuminate the inventor's New Jersey home.
Vittoria Traverso November 21, 2017
Emerald Valley
Piti, Guam

Emerald Valley

A beautiful waterway tucked in the corner of a power plant.
The sign is blocked by overgrown weeds.
Arlington, Virginia

Pentagon Cable Crossing Sign

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.
"Energy Flux," data source: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, September 2000.
maps

For as Much as We Know About the World, There Are Still Dark Spots on the Map

A new atlas aims to surprise.
Sarah Laskow October 16, 2017