Originally published at: Atlas Obscura's list of the world's weird and wonderful water towers | Boing Boing
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No love for South Carolina’s “Peachoid”?
There was a whole storyline about it in a House of Cards episode.
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The Cochituate Standpipe in Boston, although not a working water tower for at least a century. Some residents don’t even know what it is.
Not really all that weird, but I love the architecture.
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I found this one quite intriguing:
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or the giant catsup bottle in Collinsville, IL?
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Barcelona has quite a lot of modernist-era water towers and they are gorgeous brickwork works of art 
Poble Sec
Eixample
Tibidabo
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This doesn’t look like much, these days (as seen on Google Maps - I haven’t been this way in many years)
It’s next to the airport in Grand Prairie, TX. Back in the 1980s, this was painted red-and-white (in horizontal layers; not in a checkerboard pattern that one might otherwise see near an airport). At night, lights around its “equator” flashed in a rotating pattern, as though the lights were spinning around its perimeter. The effect was like a big flying saucer.
Further up that same highway, closer to DFW Airport, was another water tower that had a similar spinning effect, but faster (and the reservoir wasn’t painted red-and-white).
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Owner of that website has been photographing Finnish water towers since 2005.
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These kinds of really common water towers I had a fascination with when I was a kid. On family trips I would always marvel at them, since we didn’t have any near my hometown.
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ATAB (All Towers Are Beautiful)
(Old water tower for the Isabel II Channel, now converted to exposition center)
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Our city has one of these. It’s a mostly beloved local icon. It reminds me of a friendly War of the Worlds invader.
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That’s a nice photo too.
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It’s a crime that the Leaning Tower of Niles wasn’t in this list.
I am so sad The World’s Most Phallic Building didn’t make the list. 
AKA - Tower of Power, or more commonly The Brick Dick
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Also of note to water tower enthusiasts, the Compton Hill reservoir and tower in St. Louis.
The tower is open for visits several times a year, but alas, I’ve never made it.
Edit: better photo
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So I went out and bought me a leisure suit
I jingle my change but I’m still kinda cute
Got a job doing radio promo
And none of the jocks can even tell I’m a homo
Eventually me and a friend
Sorta drifted along into S&M
I can take about an hour on the tower of power
As long as I get a little golden shower
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My name is Bobby Brown, watch me now I’m going down
Was Zappa homophobic? He ridiculed a lot of people in his lyrics.
