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Catacombs, Abandoned Train Stations, Secret Doors...etc

Thanks for the link PB... I find this:

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Is almost as sexy as the shirtless hunk in the "flat stomach" ad on the same site ;).

Your site also reminded me of yet another place I'd love to check out, Azerbaijan's Neft Dashlari ("oil rocks") - a city constructed on a series of interconnected offshore rigs in Azerbaijan.

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Then again Azerbaijan remains one of the most fascinating places in the world for me, because the above is just one of its many eccentricities which include mud volcanoes, cracks that spew natural fire, isolated villages built in impossibly high altitudes...etc.
 
Jamshyd said:
Thanks for the link PB... I find this:

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In a lot of third world countries people work in grounded ships dismantling them to sell the scrap metal. They have an average life span of around 25 years.

It's known as ship breaking.

http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&q=ship+breaking&btnG=Search+Images

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I've always loved urban exploration.

This thread reminds me of exploring abandoned buildings in Los Angeles and having to avoid gangs all the time. Lots of weird people you can meet in places like these...
 
theres a website which features photos of tchernobyl today... i dont know the link, google it. this pics might please you!
 
There's an abandoned mental institution in the outskirts of my hometown. Of course people say it's haunted and what not. We just liked to go out there and get high :D I also loved exploring the different rooms and trying to figure out what happened there at one time, good times.

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spork said:
There's an abandoned mental institution in the outskirts of my hometown. Of course people say it's haunted and what not. We just liked to go out there and get high :D I also loved exploring the different rooms and trying to figure out what happened there at one time, good times.
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oh dammit i envy you so much!!!!!!
 
Jamshyd said:
Yep, this is part of the cisterns beneath the old city of Constantinople (part of what is now Istanbul). To my limited knowledge, their basic function was flood-protection and an effective way to drain out rain water. So at different times of the year these might be more or less filled with water but would generally maintain a minimal level of water from on-going drainage.

Although as a city that was in a state of almost constant warfare, I would not be one bit surprised that these also served a secondary function as secret escape routes, treasuries, prisons, or shelters.

It seems to me that Tokyo's G-Cans Project is essentially the same thing, just much bigger and slightly more high-tech.

Geez, I got so excited just typing this! I don't know why the hell do these things interest me so damn much! =D

What I find even more interesting is what academics call palimpsest (after a method of using oil paints in layers) - its when buildings of one era are constructed on top of existing infrastructure, so you'd find parts of a 14th century drain canal opening up into a 7th century cistern, with WWI-era added secret tunnels between the two that serve as secret escape routs.

The Old City of Jerusalem is particularly known for this kind of thing.

It really is one of my biggest dreams to explore any one of the places mentioned above in full-detail.
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such a shame for me to say this but you know much more about it than me lol
 
I too am fascinated by underground spaces and secret architecture. One of my dream vacations is to spend days exploring London's other underground.

But coincidentally, on the "ghost landscape" of Chernobyl, I spent a few hours this week procrastinating at this site:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

This woman has been making motorcycle trips through Chernobyl and the surrounding region for several years. Her photos and the accompanying essay are extremely interesting.
 
artaxerxes said:
But coincidentally, on the "ghost landscape" of Chernobyl, I spent a few hours this week procrastinating at this site:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

This woman has been making motorcycle trips through Chernobyl and the surrounding region for several years. Her photos and the accompanying essay are extremely interesting.
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Fascinating.

I too just wasted several hours looking over that site. Very good descriptions and photos of Chernobyl as it is now.
 
Jamshyd said:
PB, funny enough, this looks identical to a level from Tomb Raider III: Gold =D. If it is of any help, that level is set in scotchland.
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famously, there are entire underground streets to be explored in edinburgh. a few years ago, two friends of mine were married there and the restaurant in which we had dinner and the reception was jjust off the high street (the royal mile) and had access to underground rooms and passages. we went on a tour before dinner and it was absolutely fascinating.

read more:

http://www.undergroundedinburgh.com/home.asp
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/14_8.html
http://thecapitalscot.com/pastfeatures/vaultedin.html

when i lived in london, i tried to avoid the tube at all costs (travel in london by bus is so much more pleasant). once in a while i would take it and recall passing through abandoned tube stations now and then. i believe the british museum station is pretty easy to see from the tube:

http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/

i'm not sure if it's all possible to get any closer to these than a glance from a moving (and enclosed) train.

alasdair
 
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