Places ruthi Wants to Go

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

A plaque installed underwater marks the fall of a royal family from an imagined parallel universe—part of a globe-spanning art project.

Walk down these stairs to get an underwater view of Switzerland's Lake Zug.

Fine dining 20 feet below the surface in the Indian Ocean.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.

This top secret Chinese military megaproject is the world’s largest human-made tunnel structure.

This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.

The atomic museum in the basement of this German castle displays long strands of replica uranium cubes.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

Cathedral-like Victorian vaults are hidden within this iconic bridge.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.