Amazing underground travel experiences: The best things to do below the surface

By Brian Johnston
November 13 2016 - 12:15am
Subterranean life: Go below to explore the buried history of Edinburgh. Photo: Tony Marsh
Subterranean life: Go below to explore the buried history of Edinburgh. Photo: Tony Marsh
Underwater restaurant Anantara Maldives. Photo: Kiattipong Panchee
Underwater restaurant Anantara Maldives. Photo: Kiattipong Panchee
Luzon, Philippines. Photo: Sean White
Luzon, Philippines. Photo: Sean White
Soviet Union style architecture: The escalator in the Metro, Subway of Moscow, Russia. Photo: Mlenny
Soviet Union style architecture: The escalator in the Metro, Subway of Moscow, Russia. Photo: Mlenny
Derinkuyu cave city in Cappadocia Turkey. Photo: Pakhnyushchyy
Derinkuyu cave city in Cappadocia Turkey. Photo: Pakhnyushchyy
Novoslobodskaya Metro Station in Moscow, Russia. Photo: Nutexzles
Novoslobodskaya Metro Station in Moscow, Russia. Photo: Nutexzles

Nature has created some spectacular underground attractions, but humans have done an impressive job too. From the ancient tombs of pharaohs in Egypt's Valley of the Kings to medieval European salt mines and Cold War bunkers in America's Midwest, they provide a sense of wonder and preserve a glimpse into historic mindsets and ways of life. Sometimes you'll find subterranean surprises where you least expect them: at the Eiffel Tower, for example, a behind-the-scene tour takes in its nineteenth-century lift mechanisms and a WWI bomb shelter. The underground world isn't just dead space either, but can be full of life: the New York subway, the thronged shopping malls of Tokyo, the underwater hotels of the Maldives.

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