291 Items Tagged

Inventions

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

Berlin, Germany

Fernsehturm Müggelberge

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre.

London, England

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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.

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.

(Audium press photo)

San Francisco, California

Audium Theatre of Sound-Sculptured Space

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Photo taken on Obscura Day, April 9, 2011

Palo Alto, California

Pneumatic Tube System at Stanford University Hospital

Four miles of pipelines form the model of still-functioning retro-tech efficiency.

World's Largest Collection of Smallest Versions of Largest Things

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

Permanently Closed

The M65 Atomic Cannon, affectionately called "Atomic Annie" by the grunts back in the day, stands guard against the Flint Hills prairie chickens and hawks. (3 o'Clock AM)

Junction City, Kansas

Atomic Annie

Cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

Radio Bloemendaal circa 1984

Bloemendaal, Netherlands

Radio Bloemendaal

Small transmitter operated by a priest in the Netherlands.

The entrance to the park.

Old Mill Pond Museum (formerly Parrot Park)

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

Stenkullen ACDC Pylons

Only electricity pylons carrying both AC and DC circuits.

The southern portal of the Rove Tunnel.

Marseille, France

Rove Tunnel

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

Kulgrindas

Underwater roads undetectable from the surface used for escape routes from foreign invaders.

Permanently Closed

Historic bat tower on Lower Sugarloaf Key, Florida.

Summerland Key, Florida

Sugarloaf Key Bat Tower

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

Milly-la-Forêt, France

Le Cyclop

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

One of the two completed sections for the Barge Canal.

Palatka, Florida

Cross Florida Barge Canal

Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.

Permanently Closed

BREN tower in

BREN Tower

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