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London’s Secret Waterways: The Lost River Effra

The River Effra is one of London’s great lost waterways. Rising near Crystal Palace, its course flows through Norwood, Dulwich, Herne Hill, Brixton and Kennington, before finally emptying into the...

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A Tour of the World’s Largest Labyrinth: The Odessa Catacombs

Stretching to an estimated total length of 2,500km, the Odessa Catacombs are perhaps the largest network of tunnels anywhere in the world. They’re significantly longer – and more complex – than the...

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Underneath England: The Godstone Main Series Mine

Situated deep in the earth beneath a green and pleasant corner of southeast England, the Godstone Main Series Mine is a subterranean vault of hidden history. Its winding network of quarries and tunnels...

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Flashlights and Spider Bites in Melbourne’s Maze Drain

Sometimes people ask me what was the most stupid thing I’ve ever done. I don’t normally think long when answering, instead simply blurting out, “Maze Drain.” It’s not that this Australian drain was all...

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Exploring Crimea’s Secret Soviet Sub Base: Balaklava Naval Museum

I’ve been putting it off for a while now, but it’s time to talk about the Crimea… more specifically, about the vast aquatic facility built there by the USSR, and designed to house a fleet of...

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London Asunder: Six Tales of Urban Infiltration

Of all the cities in which I’ve had the pleasure to trespass, infiltrate and explore, London remains one of the most challenging; and yet, its heightened security systems – its cameras and guards –...

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The Confectioner’s Dungeon: A Brief History of the King’s Cross Ice Well

London is a city with many hidden depths; and, pry as one might, most of those subterranean realms remain resolutely closed to the casual investigator. In a recent post I wrote about the challenges of...

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Hunting for Crocodiles in Bristol’s Dreadnought Drain

The port city of Bristol in southwest England has many claims to fame. It was once home to Edward Teach – the pirate better known as ‘Blackbeard’ – while more recent products of Bristol include Banksy,...

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Urban Exploration in Manchester: Rooftops, Drains & Arches

Despite having spent most of my life there, it’s embarrassing how little I’ve seen of England. I guess I always took it for granted – I’d barely even set foot in the northern half of the country...

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Inside Objekt 221: An Abandoned Soviet Stronghold in the Crimea

Give me all your batteries and half a kilo of cheese strings, I said. From the look on the woman’s face, it was the worst Russian she’d ever heard. Nevertheless, I got my cheese; and a clear plastic...

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MiGs, Stars & Magic Books: A Brief History of Trespassing in Moscow

Urban Exploration is nothing new. Although that particular term didn’t work its way into pop culture until the 1990s, when it arrived it simply described a practice that people had already been...

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In the Belly of Byzantium: The Subterranean Spaces of Istanbul

Istanbul is one of the most visited cities in the world – and rightly so. It offers breathtaking mosques, imperial palaces, monuments, markets and bazaars, all wrapped up in Turkey’s famously warm...

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Kyiv’s Hidden Secrets

It was sometime around midnight, and we stood on the cracked plaza of the Kyiv Crematorium flashing spotlights up and down the building’s flaking, crusted flanks. It looked more grown, than built;...

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Vila Rebar: Exploring the Secret Tunnels of a Croatian Dictator

April sun warms the tiled turrets of Medvedgrad. This semi-ruined 13th century fortress perches like a gothic mirage above Zagreb, on the slopes of Medvednica – literally, Bear Mountain. Our bus...

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Željava Airbase: The Abandoned Yugoslav Airport Inside a Mountain

The ghosts of Yugoslavia still rise tall over the various nations that now take its place. These landscapes – some of the most scenic in Europe – lay scattered today with monuments, tower blocks,...

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