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@Walter Hinteler,

You can do "cabriolet tunnel tours" ('Cabrio Tunnel Touren') through Berlin's underground railway system ...

@Walter Hinteler,

The Berlin 380-kV electric line is a 38.3-km double-circuit high-voltage electric three-phase power line in Berlin (Wikipedia article

You can walk through the tunnel ...

http://i1334.photobucket.com/albums/w641/Walter_Hinteler/b_zpsa64dcc40.jpg

... or take the train (up to two passengers only!)

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@Walter Hinteler,

Maybe in London as well.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10599422/Is-Londons-secret-railway-about-to-get-back-on-track.html

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@Lordyaswas,

I've seen some of what is planned in today's Guardian - but in Berlin, it's done on the lines of the regular underground railway. (Two hours tour, 40€ the ticket, all tours booked out for 2014.)

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Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy

http://www.ratestogo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/bridge6.jpg

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Winchester Castle, what's left of it.

http://www.ecastles.co.uk/winchester6.jpg

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@izzythepush,

Krubera Cave, Abkhazia, Georgia: the deepest cave on earth, going down more than 2000 meters under the earth with air and waterfalls all the way down. It takes more than a month to reach the bottom.

http://i1334.photobucket.com/albums/w641/Walter_Hinteler/a_zps9a1b165b.jpg

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@Walter Hinteler,

Walter Hinteler wrote:

It takes more than a month to reach the bottom.

That is incredible. The most I've done is Cheddar.

http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/ks3/webdav/site/GSL/shared/images/education_and_careers/RockCycle/RocksAroundBritain/Cheddar%20caves%20xtrawide.jpg

It is the birthplace of cheddar cheese. The caves are still used to mature cheeses today.

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Even though I'm not a Cubs fan Wrigley Field is the greatest baseball park in the world.

http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/national/wrigle02.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Wrigley_Field_Police.jpg

http://theexpiredmeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/wrigley-field.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Wrigley_Field_split_upper_deck_1927.JPG

And Still a Reds Fan

Rap

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@raprap,

The only baseball ground I've ever been to.

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@Walter Hinteler,

I was there too! When Joefromchicago visited our area, I took him to see the Giants play the Cubs - and the Cubs won! I'm just a good host.

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Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge, Kobe-Iwaya, Japan.

Known as the Pearl Bridge, Akashi-Kaikyo is the one of the most magnificent structures in a country famous for them. The near-2 km suspension bridge holds the world record for length and links beautiful Kobe to Iwaya on Awaji Island.

http://www.ratestogo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/bridge9.jpg

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@vonny,

http://i1334.photobucket.com/albums/w641/Walter_Hinteler/a_zps0abfc803.jpg

An erdstall, "Ratgöbluckn", near Perg, Mühlviertel area north of Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. (From around 1000A.D.)
There are more than 1,200 erdstalls in Germany and Austria alone (the one above is one of the greatest, which can be visited).
Erdstall tunnels mainly date back to the Middle Ages, most built in the period between 950 and 1050 A.D.
Some, however, may have origins already in the Stone Age - 5,000 years ago.

More infos at wikipedia >Erdstall< and this spiegel-report Hideouts or Sacred Spaces? Experts Baffled by Mysterious Underground Chambers

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@Walter Hinteler,

Hohenzollern Bridge (a railway bridge) in Cologne

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@Walter Hinteler,

Gemmenicher Tunnel on the border between Belgium and Germany

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@Walter Hinteler,

The Landwasser Viaduct spans the Landwasser River between Schmitten and Filisur, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.

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@Walter Hinteler,

Ridge Lane tramway tunnel, Yorkshire
The last tram to run through here was in 1916, A new inclined section was built from the mine site North to connect with the nearby Middlesbrough-Whitby line. The tunnel was then surplus to requirements and abandoned. The Ridge lane tunnel line used to run through a second tunnel at Port Mulgrave. Ridge lane tunnel is around 400 yards long

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@Walter Hinteler,

The Nauener Tor in Potsdam. ( (The Nauen Gate is one of the three preserved gates of Potsdam. Built in 1755, it is one of the first [and finest examples] of English Gothic Revival architecture in Continental Europe.)

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@Walter Hinteler,

Roman gate in Bonn.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3723/13434790514_e1823bcac9.jpg

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There are so many things to see in India that's amazing and impressive that most people have not seen or are aware of. I'd like to bring some of what I saw during my three trips to that country to share with the people of a2k who are interested.

This was taken on the east coast in South India in 2010.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/13440419974_c719fa5134.jpg

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