Something about these hulking titans of industry just innately appeals to me
If you ever come to Germany, you should visit the Landschaftspark Nord in Duisburg. It's an old steel mill that has in part been left to rewilding, and getting overgrown with vegetation, and there's parts of the plant you can visit freely, including a giant blast furnace that's more than 60 meters high. You can walk the staircases all the way to the top, and going up there even on a warm summer day, i couldn't help but think of the workers making that climb across the steep, exposed metal staircases on the outside of the furnace in wind and rain, being pelted by the elements while sweating to enrich the steel barons of the Ruhr area. That is, when i didn't take a look at the site as a whole and was completely blown away by the combination of industrial architecture and thriving vegetation. It's an absolutely fascinating, otherworldly beautiful place.