Various ruins, caves, bunkers and abandoned cities for this week's edition of ... the Sunday Things!
Guardian telephone exchange - huge Cold War facility underneath Manchester, kept secret for decades and then left unnoticed for decades more until it
caught fire. Somehow aptly, the best source of information I've found on the place is on a website that no longer exists.
Disappointingly few full-sized images of its construction have been archived...
The Ruins of Villa Epecuen - Argentinian tourist resort drowned by the salt lake it was built next to, steadily re-emerging from the brine. More recent images
from the BBC.
via Chris S.
Ruined city of Ani, Turkey - ancient Armenian city with a complex history, abandoned and neglected for centuries and now located in a Turkish military zone.
See also: Derinkuyu underground city.
Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain - 'The Town that is Literally Living Under a Rock'. Ancient cave dwellings turned into rather more salubrious buildings. Compare
Nottingham's caves for a subdued, dampened British version.
via Erik W.