The Vespasianus Titus Tunnel
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2020
Around 300 BC Seleucus I founded, on the current southeast coast of Turkey, the city of Seleucia Pieria. Located north of the mouth of the O...
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Thames Tunnel: The World’s First Tunnel Under a River
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2020
At the beginning of the 19th century, London was one of the busiest river ports in the world, and the 600-year old stone bridge over Thames ...
Liverpool’s Secret Tunnels Built By An Eccentric “Philanthropist”
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2020
Williamson Tunnels under Edge Hill, in Liverpool. Photo: Friend of Williamson’s Tunnels Joseph Williamson was a wealthy businessman, but...
The Tunnel of Eupalinos
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2020
Digging tunnels is probably among the most toughest engineering projects the ancient people undertook, because it required mastering several...
Barbarastollen: The Underground Archive Where Germany’s Cultural Heritage Lives
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 7, 2018
On the western edge of Black Forest, deep into the mountains where miners once quarried for silver, lies Germany’s cultural heritage. It’s h...
Moldova’s Underground Wine City
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2018
The tiny landlocked country of Moldova in Eastern Europe is one of Europe’s poorest. “The roads are a bone-shaking ordeal. Horses haul carts...
Siberia’s Cold Storage Ice Tunnels
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2018
The Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia stays covered in permafrost all throughout the year, and while the winters are chilly, summers are ...
Project Riese: The Secret Nazi Tunnels in Poland
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 17, 2018
Eighty kilometers to the south of Wroclaw, underneath Poland’s oldest mountain range, the Owl Mountains, lies a massive underground complex ...
The Mysterious Erdstalls Tunnels
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2017
Across Europe, there are hundreds of underground tunnels that lead to nowhere and about which no historic records have ever been found. They...
Sarajevo Tunnel: The Tunnel of Hope
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2017
Five meters below the runway of Sarajevo's airport runs a short stretch of tunnel that was dug out during the Siege of Sarajevo to bring...
The Story Behind Ukraine’s “Tunnel of Love”
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2016
Back in 2011, Amusing Planet posted pictures of a mysterious green tunnel of trees covering a section of railway tracks in Ukraine, known as...
The Davis Toad Tunnel
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2015
Of all wildlife crossings man constructed to minimize human-wildlife conflict, one which caught more attention of the humans and media than...
Laerdal Tunnel: The World’s Longest Road Tunnel
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 25, 2015
In Norway, it’s practically impossible to drive from one place to another without making a mountain crossing or riding on a ferry across a f...
Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2015
This unassuming slanted roof, house-like structure at the foot of the mountain may appear like a private residence or perhaps a garage, but ...
SMART Tunnel in Kuala Lumpur: A Storm Water Tunnel With Built-in Motorway
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2013
Malaysia’s capital of Kuala Lumpur is regularly subjected to flash floods after heavy rains that remain for three to six hours, flooding the...
The Underground Tunnels of Cu Chi, Vietnam
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 12, 2012
During the war in Vietnam, thousands of people in the Vietnamese province of Cu Chi lived in an elaborate network of underground tunnels. Th...
The Mushroom Tunnel at Mittagong
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2011
Buried underneath the hillside, alongside Mt Gibraltar between Mittagong and Bowral in New South Wales, Australia, lies a disused railway tu...
The Tunnel People of Las Vegas
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 21, 2010
Deep beneath Vegas’s famous strip of glittering lights lies a sinister labyrinth of underground flood tunnels. These 200 miles of flood tunn...
The Guoliang Tunnel of China
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 26, 2009
The Guoliang Tunnel is located in the Taihang Mountains, in the Hunan Province of China. The story that led to it’s development is an inspir...
