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Visions from the Underworld - excellent photo tour from Sydney
- Bunker Boyz - exploration of forbiden relics around Sydney
- Sydney Cave Clan
- Urban Exploration Australia - lots of photos!
- Approach - <predator>'s excellent essay on draining.
- Draining Down Under - CaveClan's draining page
- Draining WebRing
- The Melbourne City Power Station
- The Geelong Power Station - [UEA] lots of photos
- The White Bay Power Station - [UEA] lots of photos
- Rail Mail - Londons Post Office Railway - Colin Karslake
- The Chicago Tunnel Company Railroad - "a 60-mile, two-foot gauge electric railroad that operated 149 locomotives and over 3000 freight cars in small tunnels forty feet below the streets of downtown Chicago".
- Disused and abandoned stations of the NYC Subway
- Abandoned Stations of New York (?) - Joseph Brennan. See also the Dunderberg Spiral Railway.
- Abandoned Tube Stations of the London Underground - extensive.
- Disused Stations on London's Underground - Hywel Williams.
- Closed stations in the Paris subway system - Andre Quintanar. See also The "small belt" around Paris.
- Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway - turn an obsolete canal into a subway! See also CINCINNATI-TRANSIT.net, the parent site.
- Remnants of Abandoned Stations, Tunnels, and Station Entrances found on the MBTA - Jonathan Belcher (fairly specific)
- the rochester industrial and rapid transit railway - kitty empire. See also viewing hole gallery.
- Saran, France - SAFEGE Monorail - Randy Lambertus. See also: SAFEGE Monorail and Bertin Aerotrain and Saran, France - Bertin Aerotrain.
- Buffalo Central Terminal
- Exploring Michigan Central Station
- The Big Dig - Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project, moving a major cross town artery road underground. Not really decay, although some industrial archaeology is involved.
- Infiltration - the zine about going places you're not supposed to go.
- Abandoned Missile Base VR Tour - this is an excellent site.
- Cape Canaveral Air Station Virtual Tour
- The Bevatron - a decommissioned accelerator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Jef Poskanzer).
- The Urban Exploration Ring
- The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit by Lowell Boileau
- Modern Ruins by Phillip Buehler. Excellent photography, although it's let down somewhat by the small size of the images.
- Baltimore Sun's coverage of the Baltimore tunnel fire
- Hudson Valley Ruins - includes studies of many ruins on the lower Hudson Valley, including Bannerman's Castle (see also below), Briarcliff Lodge and Glenwood Power Station. A lot of really good stuff here. By Rob Yasinsac and Tom Rinaldi.
Bannerman's Castle
Bannerman's Castle is a rambling idiosyncratic building built on an island in the Hudson River, New York. Designed in the style of a Scottish castle by dealer in Civil War surplus arms, Francis Bannerman VI, as a weapons arsenal, construction occured over a 17 year period, starting in 1900 until Bannerman's death in 1918. The building stood until August 8, 1969 when a fire almost totally destroyed it.- The Bannerman Castle Trust
- Bannerman's Castle - by Xydexx
- Bannerman's Castle - by Tom Rinaldi (see below)
- Bannerman's Castle - by Lenore Person, hudsonriver.com web site.
Centralia, Pennsylvania
A fire in a garbage dump in May 1962 ignited the coal seams running under this coal mining town. At the time, the town had a population of 1100. Now, the population is around 30, and over 500 homes have been destroyed - the fire causes severe subsidence, and produces large amounts of carbon monoxide.In 1996, the Columbia County Mine Reclamation Project proposed building a $1.9 million clay-lined trench as a fire break, although nothing seem to have come of this. While over $35 million USD has been spent so far on relocating residents, $3.5 million has been spent on unseccessful attempts to extinguish the fire. A U.S. Office of Surface Mining study put the cost of extingishing the fire at $663 million.
Burning coal seams are relatively common - although not on this scale and with this much damage. Prior to human exploitation, these fires would be started either through spontaneous combustion or due to a lightning strike, or when a bushfire crossed an exposed seam - in coal mining areas, they are typically started by landfill fires. Note that the coal mining makes the fires worse as it opens channels for oxygen to feed the fire.
A underground coal fire in Burning Mountain Nature Reserve, North East NSW, Australia is thought to be over 2000 years old.
- DEP Urges Remaining Centralians To Accept Relocation Offers- Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection News Release
- Centralia, PA - The Pennsylvania Bureau of Deep Mine Safety's Centralia Page.
- Centralia, PA - extensive information on Centralia, including a list of former residents, aerial photographs before and after, links to other resources.
- Xydexx's Centralia, PA pages
- offroaders.com have a Centralia web album with a lot of photos and information here