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The Underground Tunnel Beneath Niagara Falls [PICS]

vanishingpoint.ca — Imagine a tunnel more than ten storeys underground, a hundred years old, bricklined, wet, and completely inaccessible save by descending through a narrow slit in its ceiling thirty feet above the floor, and then returning up the same rope you came down. This tunnel exists in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

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  • RandyAndy1, on 03/05/2008, -5/+8Pretty cool.
    • nreynolds, on 03/05/2008, -11/+3... anyone else realize that the first picture is really just a penis?
      • postitnote, on 03/05/2008, -1/+7So... have you told your parents yet?
      • Onyxblaze, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3and the second to last picture is boobs.
    • OwdenBowden, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1A little known fact is that this tunnel was used to run (1) Slaves during the CW (2) whiskey during prohibition and (3) currently it is used by illegal Canadians to enter the US
  • Lyndoman, on 03/05/2008, -1/+19Just don't get caught when cycling down the tunnel
  • ghm101, on 03/05/2008, -1/+18"Imagine a tunnel more than ten storeys underground, a hundred years old, bricklined, wet, ...."
    sounds like the tube here in London (except maybe for the rope thing, though on a busy day....)
  • mrgreenjeans, on 03/05/2008, -0/+8Looks like my upper G.I.
  • theeddyadams, on 03/05/2008, -3/+44"It's a series of tubes."
    Ted Stevens
  • INDOAZZ, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2Houdinis escape route.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Houdini_swims_r ...
    • tmbrwolf19, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5Probably not since at the time the plant was operational and millions of gallons would be pouring through those tunnels. : P
      • DarkDx, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2He still escaped trough those tunnels, with water.
    • happyasever, on 03/05/2008, -3/+0You are witty! www.worldinurpocket.com
  • Crath, on 03/05/2008, -1/+5How cool would it be to launch a boat out of that, and shoot out of the waterfall :D
  • kamikazicondon, on 03/05/2008, -1/+27That is eerie
    • OakRidger, on 03/05/2008, -0/+13No, that's Niagara Falls. Erie is further south.
  • Jergens, on 03/05/2008, -1/+13Hmm...if you've ever been there like I have, you'd know that the tunnel isn't nearly as beautiful as these pictures make it out to be. Lighting is everything, I guess.
    • anchorboi, on 03/05/2008, -1/+3Is it open for the public?
      • Jergens, on 03/05/2008, -4/+1Yes it is. It's mostly dark and wet, but the payoff when you get to see the backside of the falls is well worth the price of admission.
        Even better is earlier in the tour, when they place you at the very bottom of the Horseshoe falls.
    • RobotBuddha, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1Wow, it took me a while after thinking about it to realize that my envy for those who've seen them is misplaced. I was in them as a kid, and didn't even make the connection. As you say, lighting really makes those pictures.
  • EpicSelekta, on 03/05/2008, -11/+6Is it just me, or does the bottom part of the schematic look a lot like a dong?
    • meridian300, on 03/05/2008, -0/+13No, you just have an affinity for the *****.
  • christopherRB, on 03/05/2008, -5/+2It kinda looks like it has a pair of nuts.
  • SirBrittanicus, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Eerie indeed, I likes it. :)
  • kingofinternet, on 03/05/2008, -4/+7more pictures, less cheesy prose.
  • DonJohnTom, on 03/05/2008, -9/+11its how all the illegal Canadian immigrants get into America
    • dafragsta, on 03/05/2008, -4/+2I can think of a fine Canadian product that might be smuggled...
    • djepik, on 03/05/2008, -0/+8er, I think you mean the other way around. We have the cool part and this generating station on our side.
    • JulyZerg, on 03/05/2008, -3/+4I've never heard of a canadian even remotely wanting to go down to america. It's only the mexicans that want that.
    • andrew522, on 03/05/2008, -1/+4If McCain gets this election, that statement will have to be reversed.
  • willbrhs222, on 03/05/2008, -13/+1Hey we can push the mexicans through to Canada illegally too.
  • skyfyre, on 03/05/2008, -2/+4A neat article, but isn't it spelled "stories?"
    • lolwutpear, on 03/05/2008, -0/+0"The spelling storey (plural: storeys) is used in the British Isles and the Commonwealth; story (plural: stories) is used mainly in the U.S. See American and British English spelling differences." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storey
    • rye128, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1storey
      (N. Amer. also story)********************
      • noun (pl. storeys or stories) a part of a building comprising all the rooms that are on the same level.
  • aprocter, on 03/05/2008, -5/+4That blueprint is very phallic.
  • ishnupu, on 03/05/2008, -6/+5if u look closely at the blueprints, it looks like a penis, i just noticed this.
  • adamz6969, on 03/05/2008, -20/+1Audible has a deal to get two free audio books when you sign up for a free trial just go to http://www.lastpit.com/2free
  • Mikhail101, on 03/05/2008, -2/+1cool is this the same as that flat short building on the left on the falls when u look down, i heard its an old abandoned powerlant or somethign.
  • murf1000, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1Thats creepy. Reminds me of something out of silent hill...tunnels appearing behind waterfalls.
  • CheeseburgerBro, on 03/05/2008, -1/+4I'd double-Digg it if I could.
    • badarabdad, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1if you were on reddit 2 days ago you could have!
  • skyfyre, on 03/05/2008, -0/+9It looks suspiciously like the secret underground entrance to an Umbrella facility.
  • hollywoodphony, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2This is why I won't go over the falls in a barrel: I don't want to get sucked down an invisible tunnel.
  • Rodalli, on 03/05/2008, -1/+3I'm not usually a photo guy, but these are truly spectacular. I'd really love to see this place in person.
  • m0zzie, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6anyone for some urbex?
  • H0tKarl, on 03/05/2008, -4/+3The map looks like a ***** and balls.
  • cledford, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2I was waiting to see "IT" in the background. Fkn clown...
  • BlogCrawler, on 03/05/2008, -1/+4I feel like smuggling Canadian dollars to US through it.
  • mearom, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2Is this where the mutant ninja turtles live nowaday?

    Or else I don't care.
  • repmekevets, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1they should fortify this and make it accessible to the general public.
  • mohabias, on 03/05/2008, -0/+8would be a good place to hide from the machines.
  • erkokite, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2Here is a story about some people (urban spelunker types) who climbed down into the tunnel. First hand account and goes into a lot more detail than above story. Quite good reading.
    http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php ...
  • 0crabby0, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Where's all the barrels?
  • TheFred, on 03/05/2008, -0/+9I was half expecting to see Tommy Lee Jones chasing Harrison Ford on one of those photos
  • Tyrghast, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1The man certainly is enamored of this tunnel huh...
  • polarbear66, on 03/05/2008, -2/+0THE INTERNETS! WE FOUNDS THEMS!
  • DeathJux, on 03/05/2008, -0/+9Dugg for the last paragraph:

    "Lying below a river that will relentlessly tear into the bedrock until all has been obliterated from Queenston to Erie, this tunnel thirty-three feet in diameter is imprinted into my being forever. A swirling army of red brick millions strong, the eye of a petrified hurricane leading us right into the centre of the stalled but fighting storm that is Niagara Falls. Standing in its back-blast, in a place far deeper and darker than any middling storm sewer, I breathed and drank from the fount of the universe and swam closer to its centre than I ever will again."

    Awesome, if not a bit over-the-top.
    • UnterDenLinden, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2I would have gone down there only for the lulz.
  • WhoDoneIt, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5It's probably what the inside of Paris Hilton's vagina would look like. *****, probably smells like it too.
  • 1Vinson, on 03/05/2008, -1/+0Awesome, I never thought that a tunnel exist in this remarkable place
  • and303, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Awesome. Now if only they'd go back and take some pics with the ISO settings under 200 they'd be in business.
  • rex84, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1reminds me of vagin, sexy time!
  • Cryoniq, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2Very impressive, almost surreal :) Great reading :)
  • emeksv, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3I've been fascinated with this place for years. It makes all the urban exploring I've ever done so much pointless wanking. It's fascinating in particular because, if you screw it up, no one is coming to get you.
  • Liam5, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3For more information on how the did it, and the story behind the trip check here:
    http://www.urbanatrophy.com/forum/showthread.php?t ...

    If you have any other questions about Urban Exploration, I'd be happy to help you out.
  • mille716, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1I'm thinking its a likely yet unnecessary supervillain cave?
  • flipmeat, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2skateboarders, your challenge awaits. Take your pro mountain climbing buddies.
  • Forbizzle, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3Anybody else see a penis in the overhead blueprints, or am I just latent?
  • futurepope, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Sure beats those above-ground tunnels. Dugg for great photography, though done so reluctantly because of redundancy in the title.
  • jcardinal, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1this is where the Rolling Stones store the large phallus they used on tour in the early seventies.
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