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Tales of Hidden Tunnels: Read About the Secrets of Underground Spaces

In centuries past, people would dig tunnels for all sorts of purposes - escaping war, transporting bootleg goods, running other kinds of illegal operations, secretly expanding their homes under the ...

Secret Spaces: 12 Architectural Easter Eggs Hidden Under Our Noses

By now, most of us are aware of the abandoned, once-forgotten subway stations and other underground wonders hidden beneath the streets of cities around the world. There are even entire cities ...

Underground Art: 11 Subterranean Galleries & Installations Delve Deep

Often mysterious, somber and a little otherworldly, subterranean spaces add a sense of depth (no pun intended) to the art installations and performances held within them. Abandoned subway ...

Subterranean Secrets: The Mystery of Liverpool’s Tunnels

Starting in the basement of a home owned by a wealthy philanthropist in the 1700s, a network of tunnels descends into the earth beneath the city of Liverpool, their full extent still undiscovered ...

Abandoned Underground: 10 Long-Lost Subterranean Cities

Subterranean spaces now silent, dank and cobwebbed once bustled with activity - often of the illicit variety - housing secret speakeasies, opium dens, bootlegging operations and hubs for human ...

Architectural Archaeology in Antwerp’s Abandoned Tunnels

Beneath the bustle of Antwerp, Belgium, empty tunnels lie still and silent, forgotten by most of the inhabitants above. Meant for a metro system, the tunnels have been abandoned since they were ...

Subterranean Secrets: 10 Tunnels for Smuggling & War

Perhaps there's one beneath you right now: a hidden underground passage, crumbling and half-forgotten or even modern and air-conditioned, actively whisking contraband goods from one hidden ...

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