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Standard toilets like this one are not usually profitable enterprises for the user, but a new project in South Korea is changing that.
sewers

Students Are Getting Paid to Poop at a South Korean University

The project transforms human waste into biogas, and allows participants to buy everything from bananas to socks.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 23, 2021
Lift Pool and Lock No. 1
Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria Tide Lock Park

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.
Burj Al Babas today is composed of hundreds of unfinished castle-like villas.
abandoned

The Story Behind Turkey's Pricey, Fairy-Tale Ghost Town

Burj Al Babas may one day be full of wealthy vacationers, but for now it's a strange sight.
Inka Piegsa-Quischotte July 20, 2021
Walking down Via degli Asini.
Brisighella, Italy

Via degli Asini (The Donkey's Road)

Built as a defensive structure, this medieval walkway road offers a unique view of the village of Brisighella.
Looking toward Eastgate on old US-50 (NV-722), from near its west junction.
Austin, Nevada

Nevada State Route 722

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.
nuclear

Podcast: Shoreham Power Plant

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team June 29, 2021
Merging onto Alaska 1 from a scenic overlook.
Anchorage, Alaska

The Seward Highway

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.
Baltimore, Maryland

First Public Gas Street Lamp in America

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.
Locomotives more than a century old rust on the tracks at the Mar Mikhael station in the middle of Beirut.
railroads

The Daunting Challenge of Saving Lebanon's Storied Rail Network

Can rusting locomotives and crumbling stations become a vibrant transportation network again?
Pesha Magid May 4, 2021
Amtrak train No. 10, the North Coast Hiawatha, on the Milwaukee Road main line along the Mississippi River at Dakota, Minnesota, in 1975, with the "Bloody Nose" paint scheme.
railroads

It Takes a Lot of Thought and Planning to Paint a Train

Over the last 50 years, Amtrak has seen many designs come and go.
Justin Franz April 28, 2021
Ottoman Fountain 1 (primary fountain identified in site address)
Nafplio, Greece

Ottoman Fountains of Nafplio

Public water fountains built during the Ottoman Era still stand throughout this seaside town.
Chandelier Hall in the Cologne sewage system.
List

13 Places to Wade Into the Wondrous History of Sewers

From guided tours of the world below to a chunk of a fatberg.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 15, 2021
A former London Underground train approaches Sandown station on the Isle of Wight.
islands

London's Retired Tube Trains Live on an Island

Vintage rail cars hide in plain sight on the Isle of Wight.
Lauren Keith February 1, 2021
Hermes, back on the surface after ages amid the filth.
architecture

We Shouldn’t Have Been Surprised to Find a Sculpture of Hermes in a Sewer

Filthy infrastructure has long been a site of artistry and civic pride.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 4, 2020
Aboard the ship <em>Gobustan</em>, which spent months abandoned in Ravenna, Italy.
ships

When Ships Are Abandoned, Stuck Sailors Struggle to Get By—and Get Paid

“We are satisfied with little, but even that little is impossible today.”
Federico Formica November 17, 2020
The volunteers were given suitcases to check in and pick up. The bags didn't always make it to carousel.
infrastructure

What It's Like to Stress-Test Berlin's Brand New, Much Maligned Airport

A little stressful, by design.
Andrew Curry October 30, 2020
Cambridge, MA 2018.
infrastructure

Meet the Artist Who Does Extreme Close-Ups of Utility Poles

Rosamond Purcell finds stories, landscapes, and more on their mottled surfaces.
Winnie Lee October 16, 2020
Kirkland, Washington

Truck-Eating Bridge

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.