The world's most beautiful airport control towers

Most photographers are lured by landscapes, sunsets, crowded markets or herds of wildebeest. For Carolyn Russo, it's airport control towers.

An employee at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, she has spent the last nine years capturing 100 control towers in 23 countries. The results have been collated in a new book - The Art of the Airport Tower - and in an exhibition at the Washington DC attraction.

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Birmingham Airport, United Kingdom (BHX/EGBB): The Birmingham Airport (formerly Elmdon Airport) opened on July 8, 1939. It served as a flight school and test center during World War II. Today the airport serves over nine million people a year with just a single runway. Its new control tower, which replaced Elmdon Airport's original one in 2012, stands 33 meters (108 feet) high. The cab, the tower section where the controllers work, has heated windows to evaporate water for better visibility.

Picture: Carolyn Russo, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

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