United States · Building
North Shore Sanitary District Tower
A 50-foot Art Deco brick tower built in 1931 to ventilate Highland Park's sewer system, its formal architectural…
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Óbuda Gasworks, Budapest
Óbuda gasworks, Budapest, in 2017. Photo: 12akd, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. ÓBUDA, BUDAPEST · BUILT 1910–1914…
Japan · Manufactured
Ohitayama Tatara Iron Works
A premodern steelworks in Yamaguchi Prefecture where craftsmen produced tatara steel using Japan's traditional metalworking technique.
Poland · Building
Old water tower of Bydgoszcz
A municipal water tower in Bydgoszcz, Poland, registered on the regional heritage list in 1986 for its importance…
Indonesia · Manufactured
Ombilin Coal Mine
Southeast Asia's oldest coal mine, established in 1876 near Sawahlunto in West Sumatra.
Japan · Manufactured
Ōmine Okugakemichi
A 170-kilometer pilgrimage route through Japan's Kii Peninsula, connecting the Yoshino River valley to the sacred Kumano Hongū…
Japan · Manufactured
Ōminesan-ji
An austere Shugendō temple at Mount Ōmine's summit, venerated since the Heian period and off-limits to women for…
Germany · Manufactured
Peenemünde
A Baltic Sea municipality where the world's first functional large-scale liquid-propellant rocket, the V-2, was developed at the…
United States · Building
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Enamel Plant
A streamlined 1937 Art Moderne factory in Milwaukee, built for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and now recognized…
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