In an era of mass consumption and mass production, we need a place to store all of our stuff. Enter the warehouse, or storage facility, where we can let everything sit around before it actually gets put to use, or meaninglessly thrown away.
Here are 20 photos of storage areas absolutely stuffed to the max with stuff, for better or for worse.
1
A storage room at the Olympia Museum in Greece.
2
World's biggest dry aging room with around $10 million worth of beef in New Jersey.
3
“Walking my Potato Storage in Idaho.”
4
The world's largest storage of wood in Sweden.
5
Brazilian businessman Zero Freitas posing in one of his two warehouses full of the largest collection of vinyl records in the world.
6
Wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese in an aging room, Bibbiano, Italy.
7
“My dad channeled his inner entrepreneurial spirit last year and bought a warehouse full of poorly-designed hoodies which he couldn't sell even for $2 each. We now use them as hand towels at home.”
8
The cafeteria at an IRS facility in Austin, Texas overstuffed with a backlog of paper.
9
Shell collection in the Smithsonian storage room.
10
Parking lot at a nearly-abandoned mall being used for Tesla storage.
11
A bourbon storage facility with 9000 full barrels of bourbon collapsed in Kentucky.
12
36 Corvettes from an 80s promotion. One from each production year from 1953 to 1989 found sitting in a nearly abandoned New York City storage lot for about 25 years.
13
“Warehouse full of ivory products confiscated by US customs.”
14
Inside the LEGO storage facility at their Denmark HQ.
15
The FBI finger print files, 1944.
16
Warehouse full of water in Delaware.
17
US Air Force aircraft storage facility.
18
Warehouse full of Buffalo Trace bourbon.
19
Muppet storage room at the Smithsonian.
20
Inside an Amazon warehouse.
