With a population of nearly 13.5 million packed into just 2,448 square miles and a large network of disused bomb shelters, it's no surprise that some Shanghai businesses are going underground. ...
Watching the city go by from an elevated or even ground-level rail system can be relaxing, but the transition to an underground section is at best boring, at worst jarring. ...
Why would a network of cramped, claustrophobic tunnels emerge into the kitchens of farmhouses, the aisles of churches and the center of cemeteries? No one knows exactly why man-made subterranean ...
Beneath one idyllic meadow field in rural Hamburg, Germany, a slumbering city hides. Its walls barely peek up above the surface of the soil; after dark, gentle light wafts up from the ...
Dark, smelly, filthy and crawling with rats – while this may be an accurate description of many subway stations and tunnels around the world, it definitely doesn't apply to Barcelona's ...
Stone houses invoke thoughts of dark, cold, and damp places full of creepy creatures. Some cultures have battled these prejudices for centuries, building dwellings deep into rock, and now modern ...
Once, they were bomb shelters, fortified underground structures that housed military operations or nuclear warheads. Today, they're apartment buildings, tea houses, hotels and art galleries. ...
It's a jaw-dropping hideout worthy of a James Bond villain – so some may find it appropriate that Pionen White Mountain in Sweden is indeed connected to WikiLeaks, international whistle-blowing ...
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 ...
The above-ground world that we can see is only a small part of what's actually there. In cities around the world, subterranean passageways, hidden histories and underground complexes crisscross ...
