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Incredible Ruins
Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, a pub, and an underground lake
In disaster movies, when the asteroid is hurtling towards earth, or the super volcano is about to blow, there is always a top-secret location where the president, government officials and... »
Retro-Tech, Disaster Areas, Incredible Ruins, Repositories of Knowledge, Subterranean Sites | Edited by and Dylan
The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune
Allied bombs and rough seas have reduced the once mighty turn of the century giant into an armless ruin. Located at the end of a popular sunbathing beach in the Italian riviera town of Monterosso... »
Strange Statues, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Annetta
The world's largest military aircraft cemetery
Airplane aficionados rejoice! Heaven has been found and it's on the grounds of the Davis-Montham Air Force Base in Tuscon, Arizona.
The 2,600-acre area, officially called the 309th Aerospace... »
Incredible Ruins | Edited by littlebrumble and stanestane
The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense
The Safeguard Program was developed in the 1960s to shoot down incoming Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles. Built at a cost of 6 billion dollars in Nekoma, North Dakota, the site was a... »
Incredible Ruins | Edited by Kaluz, Dylan and others
Abandoned LA zoo provides a perfect place to experience what it is like to be on the other side of the bars
In a quiet area of Griffith Park in Los Angeles, you can picnic in a bear grotto and climb inside abandoned monkey cages. If you have ever wondered what you appear like to the animals in the zoo,... »
Ghost Towns, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Lisa E
An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain"
This abandoned NSA field station sits atop an 80 meter artificial hill in the Grunewald forest on the west edge of Berlin.
The hill has a noteworthy history: created from the post-WWII debris of... »
Incredible Ruins | Edited by blainedoneill
Abandoned Nuclear Missile Base
LA-88 was one of the few dozen Nike missile bases located around LA to protect the civilian population and military industrial sites from Soviet attack and was in operation from 1957-1974.
It... »
Incredible Ruins | Edited by dittlelifferent