Huequeville, France [Photo by Stephan Vanfleteren]

Attending to the shrine, Venetian lagoon' by Italian painter Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844-1905)

A painting by Edgar Alwin Payne (1883-1947)

The unintentional dystopia of dams, sluices, and watergates 1. The Hoover Dam, Black Canyon (1934)

2. Hòa Bình Dam, Vietnam, one of the largest hydroelectric dams in Southeast Asia. Photograph by @ flayrasa

3. Xiluodu Dam, Yangtze River, Yunnan Province, China (2012) as photographed by Edward Burtynsky

4. The inflatable rubber dam of Ramspol in the Netherlands

5. Grande Dixence Dam, Hérémence, as photographed by Jörn Vanhöfen

6. The impressive concrete staircase of the Varosa dam (Barragem de Varosa), located near to Lamego, Portugal, and built in 1976

Concept art by Moebius for James Cameron's 'The Abyss' (1989)

Orientalist scenes by French-Polish painter Adam Styka (1890–1959)