Troll Train: Brazil’s Steamy Mundo a Vapor Museum
The front facade of the Mundo a Vapor train museum in Canela, Brazil recreates a spectacular Parisian train wreck from 1895 in steamingly accurate detail. No doubt the worst – or at ...
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Abstract Geography: Huge Historical Map Spans Dutch Train Station Ceiling
Amidst the modern architecture and undulating spaces of this station in Delft, one design detail stands out above the rest: a huge abstracted version of a map from the late 1800s that connects ...
Michigan Central Station: Ford & Snohetta to Revive Abandoned Detroit Icon
Driving into Motor City, the beautiful and towering 18-story Michigan Central Station is hard to miss -- it is both a Beaux-Arts Classical landmark (standing out even in a city rich with ...
Last Stop: Japan Keeps Old Train Station Open for Lone Passenger
In a remote area of Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, a train stops just twice a day, as it has for years: once to pick up a girl on her way to school, and once to drop her back off ...
Bold Border Checkpoint: Cantilevered Curves Welcome Visitors
Passing over the border between Turkey and Georgia isn’t an experience you’re soon to forget thanks to the surreal, undulating concrete customs checkpoint structure looming over the Black ...
Subterranean Solar: $100K Raised for Daylit Underground Park
With two weeks left to go in its crowdfunding campaign, the Lowline has already raised over $100,000 from over 1,000 backers, promising to turn an old trolley station in Manhattan into the ...
No Exit: Bricked Train Door Blocks German Subway Commuters
Presumed a prank at first by online skeptics, authorities have since confirmed that these precisely-stacked cinder blocks were indeed carefully assembled and bonded together to fully block the ...
Terminal Velocity: 10 Abandoned Intercity Bus Stations
Long distance bus transportation has been in decline for decades, leaving countless abandoned bus stations to watch time and potential passengers pass them by. ...
Typographic Shelter: Most Obvious City Bus Stop in the World
If you cannot spot this giant bus shelter in Baltimore, you may have bigger problems than missing the bus and getting to work on time. Standing 14 feet high, the ...
Home Ice: 12 International Antarctic Research Stations
Constructing a research station in Antarctica means thinking outside the box-like building but not TOO far outside... Great Scott it's COLD out there! ...
