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Sunken Periscope: Europe’s First Underwater Restaurant Opens in Norway

What looks like a post-apocalyptic scene of a building collapsing into the sea is actually Europe's first underwater restaurant, and it's officially open for business. Architecture firm Snøhetta ...

Underwater Hotel in a Formerly Abandoned Quarry Now Open to Guests

The concept renderings for this wildly unusual hotel design in an abandoned Chinese quarry debuted on the internet over a decade ago, and now the finished complex is welcoming guests. The ...

Coralarium: Ocean’s First Intertidal Art Museum Doubles as Marine Habitat

A new first-of-its-kind underwater art museum in the Maldives features exhibits and sculptures at various levels, from the seabed through the intertidal waterline and up to the skyline, designed ...

Looking ‘Under’: Snøhetta’s Submerged Restaurant is Taking Shape in Norway

Half-sunken into the sea along the Norwegian coastline, Snøhetta's submerged restaurant project looks like yet another cool rendering that will never actually be built - but a new series of ...

Urban Explorers Scuba Dive Through an Abandoned Submerged Soviet Prison Camp

How eerie must it be to swim past submerged lamp posts, barbed wire and other remnants of an old Soviet prison while scuba diving in a former quarry? The setting is dangerous; visitors might ...

Sunken City of Sin: Submerged Ruins of a Roman Playground for the Rich

Hidden at the bottom of Gulf of Naples in Italy for 1,700 years, the ancient Roman city of Baiae has been revealed to the world after divers were permitted to explore and photograph the site. ...

Underwater Castle: 3,000-Year-Old Ruin Discovered in Turkey’s Largest Lake

Deep in Turkey's biggest body of water, Lake Van, a secret fortress lay dormant for thousands of years, discovered recently by a team of university archaeologists following local rumors of a ...

World’s First Floating Underwater Tunnels to Span Fjords in Norway

Norway is working to create the world's first "submerged floating bridges," suspended from surface pontoons and engineered to span its vast network of wide and deep fjords. A system of ...

Last Stop: 2,800 Drowned NYC Subway Cars Turned Marine Habitats

Since the early 2000s, decommissioned New York City subway cars have been seeded into the waters around New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia and other eastern states, creating infrastructure for fish ...

Sunken Ruins of Alexandria to be World’s First Underwater Museum

The Ministry of Antiquities in Egypt is planning to turn submerged ruins of ancient Alexandria into an underwater museum, allowing tourists access to 2,500 of subsurface stonework dating back ...

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