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Tunnels

Naours

Cité souterraine de Naours (Underground City of Naours)

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

The newly painted outside of the Brunel Museum.

London, England

Brunel Museum Grand Entrance Hall

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

Gesundbrunnen Bunker - Entrance from inside

Berlin, Germany

Berliner Unterwelten (Subterranean Berlin)

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

Permanently Closed

Looking out from the Pogue's Run tunnel. (Photo: Stuart Hyatt)Looking out from the Pogue's Run tunnel. (Photo: Stuart Hyatt)

Indianapolis, Indiana

Pogue's Run

This hidden stream beneath Indianapolis makes an appearance in the best-selling novel "Underground Airlines."

A historical reenactor in what was Burrows and Sons Chinese Laundry.

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

Tunnels of Moose Jaw

Underground tunnels once home to crime are now back open to the public.

Found: An Underground Meth Lab in a Walmart Parking Lot

The Walmart stayed open while police dove down in.

Sarah Laskow August 10, 2016

Found: Secret, Illicit Tunnels in an Oregon Park

Police are not happy.

Sarah Laskow August 4, 2016

A view from inside the tunnel. (Photo:

East Jerusalem, Israel

Siloam Tunnel

An ancient tunnel in Jerusalem built to redirect water in the event of a siege is one of history’s great architectural innovations.

City Hall Station

8 Spooky New York Places That Should Be in the New Ghostbusters Movie

There's something strange in these neighborhoods.

Meg Neal July 15, 2016

Clinton, Massachusetts

Clinton Tunnel

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

Bryson City, North Carolina

The Road to Nowhere

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

The World's Longest and Deepest Tunnel to Open in Switzerland

It's a big deal.

Erik Shilling May 24, 2016

This Secret Tunnel Could Solve the Mysteries of an Ancient Mexican Civilization

Not much is known about Teotihuacán.

Erik Shilling May 19, 2016

Russia Built a Huge Tunnel to Save a Near-Extinct Group of Leopards

In the far eastern part of the country.

Erik Shilling May 10, 2016

Every Spring, Montana's Abandoned Mine Shafts Open Giant Holes in the Ground

A depression in the backyard could be an abandoned mine shaft hundreds of feet deep.

Sarah Laskow May 9, 2016

Found: Secret Tunnels Underneath Naples

Two geologists were tipped off by a 90-year-old man who sheltered there during World War II.

Sarah Laskow March 11, 2016

Hope, British Columbia

Othello Tunnels

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

Found: A Secret Tunnel to India

It was the fourth discovered in the past four years.

Sarah Laskow March 4, 2016