Real Underground Cities You Didn’t Know Exist

[@Strutsiina]

"Helsingfors underjordiska" is Swedish for "the underground of Helsinki", not a specific place. There are more than 300 kilometers of tunnels under the city but most are only for infrastructure and some are for the military and important state figures and such. There are also a few tunnels for traffic around and under the city centre a couple of underground parking halls are connected together. You can also get from the railway station to shopping centres like City Center, Forum and Kamppi on foot through a tunnel. The places described (a sports centre and a church) are real though, at least I (a native Finn and Helsinki resident) have heard of them from news stories. But importantly THESE ARE NOT IN ONE PLACE nor are they associated to each other!! They just are underground places (partly built, as you said, because of our friends to the east) that are in Helsinki. And for clarification, the "name" used in the video, Helsingfors underjordiska, is in Swedish because along with the majority language Finnish, Swedish is a national language in Finland due to historical reasons. I would guess that it ended up in the video because the writers couldn't find much info (there isn't much even in our language(s) because there is no special complex under Helsinki) and couldn't tell Finnish and Swedish apart, or didn't know they aren't used completely equally in Finland.

[@Sandra-dt4ec]

Olen oppinut paljon, kittos!

[@lenajesse]

Even though I've lived in Helsinki all my adult life, I had to google about Temppeliaukio being part of the "underjordiska". It didn't sound right...but Joe sounded so certain what he was talking about, I wasn't sure if i was wrong or not 🤭

[@joescott]

Actually someone informed me of that after I put the video on Nebula. Thanks for the correction. I'll pin it to the top.

[@gnurken]

The pronunciation was very good though

[@ricos1497]

@@joescott we'll pin you to the top yours sincerely, Finland.

[@youngbarski6045]

Hi Joe, i'm 26 and just decided to go back to college and pursue something more in my life. I know you probably won't see this, but your content has been absolutely instrumental in me stoking back up my thirst for knowledge and not giving up on my life. If that sounds like a bit much, I aint lyin'. Thank you for what you do, man!

[@LuisSierra42]

wholesome, keep it up my dude

[@rickcasedrinksbud]

LFG!!! You got this Joe 👏🏼

[@youngbarski6045]

​@LuisSierra42 appreciate you man 😭

[@PLMassTahh]

Joe will see that. He sees everything!

[@joescott]

Dude that's amazing! Good for you and good luck! Is there a specific field you're pursuing? I just want to know what to take credit for. 🤣

[@adamk.7177]

"There could be someone who lives underneath you right now." Me, who lives on the 5th floor: Yeah, at least 3 families and a coffee shop

[@lenajesse]

Me who lives on the 3rd floor, thought about the ground underneath the building: Nobody lives under me. Then I read your comment and realized I was wrong. There's about 3 people who've lived under me almost as long as I've lived in this building 😄

[@chrismeandyou]

would LUV to live above a bakery and have those great smells coming in

[@kacheek9101]

haha And here I was, sitting in Florida, going, 'Nope, I can confidently say there's not.' If you dig a hole here, you hit water pretty fast

[@Vaeldarg]

@@kacheek9101 Give it another decade and probably won't need to even dig to hit it.

[@N9199]

Same thought, but 4th floor

[@Figgy5119]

I live in Nagoya, Japan, and so much of the shopping downtown is underground. I'm sure there are many unsuspecting tourists who think they are going down a subway entrance only to find a labyrinth of shopping streets.

[@KeKe-bv8qv]

Fun fact about Coober Pedy. There are many abandoned mine shafts there. Around 2 million, 20-to-30-metre-deep mineshafts in the area. Many, many people have accidentally fallen into them and been injured, trapped and died if they weren't found and rescued in time. When people go missing, mineshafts always get checked.

[@ToxicMrSmith]

Also, it's pronounced pee-dy not pe-dy. Fellow Adelaideian here.

[@pelago_]

@@ToxicMrSmithlol I was about to say the same thing 😂

[@frank_calvert]

im surprised they havent tried to like, go out of their way and cover all of them up permanently

[@DavidSmith-vr1nb]

​@@frank_calvert People tend to remove covers. Better to retain the ability for quick visual inspection.

[@paxhumana2015]

@KeKe-bv8qv, et al, why not just literally prevent all of that from happening and begin to make shelters, as well as expansions to that city, from all of those abandoned mine shafts? You all could have like an underground megalopolis down there if you all worked hard enough...just keep the snakes, spiders, and other dangerous critters from being in there by making the walls impossible for them to exist there, and ditto for the environments there as well. Now imagine Australia having its own thing like New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Mexico City, etc., yeah, that could be the Coober Pedy of the future.

[@gladlawson61]

Brother... A lady lived in a home depot sign and had a working computer, internet, everything she needed. She had a job and everything. There for something like two years before she was found out.

[@MrFreakRite]

I've seen a dude who lives in a box that looks like a stone bench in a park. Guy has AC, electricity, wifi, and a 6sq ft apartment in there.

[@navy1013]

I have seen a guy who lives inside sewage system tunnels of las vegas...he has a internet connection,a TV and even a refrigerator and it was more spacious then a average newyork apartment.and he does not pay for anything.

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

​@@navy1013living in the sewer is a legit pipe dream in today's market

[@rickwrites2612]

H​@@navy1013how's his security

[@missoula2213]

I saw one a few years ago, where people were living inside bridges. All amenities etc.

[@GourmetSaint]

Coober Pedy is pronounced Coober “Peedy”. Great place to visit. Stay in the underground hotel. You turn your room lights off and you cannot see your hand in front of your face. Day or night. Best night’s sleep ever but disconcerting when you wake in the night…

[@driverjayne]

I've delivered many times to the underground facilities in Missouri. It's wild driving a semi underground. I love it.

[@Morbing_Time]

"There could be someone living under you right now" Yes, my downstairs neighbour.

[@LuisSierra42]

Satan lives underground as well

[@joescott]

I think I used to live next to satan. Terrible neighbor.

[@ioresult]

I already live in half basement. The water table is litterally right under my feet.

[@PaulZyCZ]

@@joescott But he must have great music taste.

[@hibbytam]

​@joescott free underfloor heating though

[@Smishy42]

1:12 Now now you know that the Cheyenne Mountain Complex being a regular old military installation is just a cover for the Stargate program 😉👽

[@Zandanga]

lol 👍

[@SaltyFrosticles]

"Indeed"

[@reahreic7698]

@@SaltyFrosticles ^ -^

[@zdrusse11]

@@SaltyFrosticles Underrated comment. Tek'ma'te

[@MM-eu9hm]

Aye aye...🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 Slava Ukr4ine 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦

[@lolabott]

Hi Joe! My name is Laura and I have been sick for almost a decade but recently doing much better! I wanted to THANK YOU for being such a wonderful distraction for my husband and myself with your awesome content! We watch all your videos. I live up in Denton and I hope one day when I’m in Plano to see you in person so I can shake your hand and thank you face to face for all the joy and education you have brought to my life! I used to nurse so science is a huge interest of mine. I hope you see this to know your impact stretches far beyond just education and laughter but also the company you give to people like myself. Keep up the great work, it REALLY MATTERS!!!!! Warmest regards to you and yours❤

[@paulgracey4697]

Much smaller than the sites you feature here, is the underground Forestiere Gardens outside Fresno CA. The remarkable characteristic of this underground orange grove is that it was dug by one man, an Italian immigrant who worked on the NY subway system, moved to California where he had bought several acres to start his own citrus ranch. The land was hard-pan at the surface, very difficult to dig and of meager soil. In despair and too hot in his cabin in the time before home AC was available to any but the very wealthy, he dug a hole to live below ground where it was naturally cool. Then just kept digging more passages and atrium rooms for individual orange trees over several acres. Eventually people heard about his work, and came to see it. It is now a minor tourist attraction in Fresno. I first learned about it on a 1950's TV series called "You Asked for it" which tended to promote California oddities, some of which may have been the ones doing the "asking" with a gratuity of some sort to the show's producers.

[@procrustez]

This sounds so cool! Many beautiful one-man environment-changing projects around the world. One day when I visit the US / California again, I'd love to visit. Thanks for sharing.

[@EngineerBear-cp5cl]

I was there as a kid, many decades ago...after seeing "you asked for it" on channel 24 (?). Lived in Merced at the time, 55 miles north of Fresno. I was mightily impressed the way the temperature dropped a few feet below the surface. (Hey, I was just a kid, easily impressed).

[@KayleighBourquin]

The Pedy in Coober Pedy is pronounced with a strong ee sound, like peedy

[@Roonasaur]

boost

[@PinataOblongata]

Scrolled down to check someone had made this correction. Fellow Aussie, I'm guessing 👍

[@GrimJackal]

Thank you so much. It was driving me crazy.

[@HenryThong]

As a South Australian I was so glad to see someone point this out

[@jay2aussie]

He actually pronounced it fairly correctly where he said the aboriginal word it had been taken from 😂

[@idontwantahandlethough]

Speaking of underground structures: underneath Best Buy corporate headquarters, there's a GIANT replica best buy built underground that they use to test things out before they implement them in real stores. idk how tf that could be cost effective, but I guess they built it back when things were good and they didn't know what the future would hold for them lol

[@danl6634]

They shot lots of commercials down there too, makes sense given it was more than just staging.

[@codename495]

Easy, employee discount.

[@insu_na]

the infinite IKEA

[@defeatSpace]

@@insu_na the Bestrooms 😨

[@PeachysMom]

Backrooms Best Buy

[@alecjones7299]

When I work for the Marine Corps, we surveyed out tunnels going from Mexico to the United States. That were so big you could drive a box truck through them. They went in through one garage on the Mexican side and out another garage on the American side. 😅

[@rustomkanishka]

Are these the illegal tunnels used by the cartels to bring in narcotics?

[@bullseyecanada]

You covered Montreal's REZO, but you didn't mention Toronto's The PATH. 30 kilometres connecting 70 buildings across the entirety of downtown Toronto (including the world famous Eatons Centre). It was built in 1900...and continues to expand as the city is continuing to grow.

[@K1ddkanuck]

Was going to say this. The PATH holds the Guinness world record for largest underground shopping complex. Super handy in the winter time, as long as you don't get lost lol

[@sheri1973]

I'm glad someone already mentioned this.

[@joescott]

Yup, that was an oversight. Or... undersight in this case.

[@DneilB007]

@@AbeYousefYeah, Winnipeg has an underground as well. Not Saskatoon though; half of Saskatoon is a few dozen metres of topsoil covering a giant sand bed (the ocean floor from the dinosaur days) and the other half is essentially maybe 5 metres of soil floating atop an underground swamp. The hockey rink on the north side of town has multiple pumps running 24/7 to keep the lower levels from flooding.

[@lauscho]

I walked nearly the entire PATH a couple years ago with some friends while on our way to a concert (it was John Petrucci from Dream Theater on his solo tour a few years back). Some great shops down there, and yeah, it can be pretty easy to get lost down there if you don't know where you're going!

[@Z_MIB]

I live in an apartment building, so the comment about how there could be people living under me right now was really funny

[@kv4648]

How do you manage getting enough sunlight? Having a window that doesn't face sun is bad enough for me so I can't imagine having to manage being underground a lot. What about the bugs? How much of a problem are they?

[@bradwatton5385]

@@kv4648read it again

[@Z_MIB]

@@kv4648 I'm not underground, it's just a reference to people living in apartments below a different person. I'm on the first floor, which is at street level. A person living on the top floor of an apartment building has people living below them despite no one being underground.

[@kv4648]

@@Z_MIB oh crap, Yeah I misread that

[@EngiesParadise]

or yk, the other side of the world lol

[@jerrylong381]

Not mentioned are the vast underground warehouses. The ones here in Missouri are mostly built in old limestone quarries/mines. I know they're extensive around Kansas City. They're ideal for refrigerated and dry storage as the ambient temperature stays around 60°F year round. They have roads for heavy truck and car traffic. Chances are much of the food in the midwest has passed trough one of these facilities.

[@AL-lh2ht]

cant forget the great cheese caves

[@pie3421]

Came here to ask if op has seen any of the government cheese ​@@AL-lh2ht

[@TheMightyZwom]

Aren't houses just artificial caves we built because they suit our needs much better than any natural caves could?

[@johnswartzkoff8170]

Reminds me of The Last Starfighter, when the guy is talking to the reptilian about where they live. The reptilian lives in a cave, so the guy describes his mobile home as being like a cave above ground that goes places, only they never went anywhere.

[@j.c.ulater]

Don't get me started on basements

[@postmodernmining]

RVs are like hermit crab shells.

[@jasonbull6560]

Yer last starfighter.good movie

[@FishRepair]

Dude u just blew my mind

[@ailo4x4]

If you drive through downtown Houston, Texas, you'll wonder why the only people you see are the poor and the street people. Fun fact, the major businesses in the city are connected by underground tunnels with shops, restaurants, etc. The reason for it is due the the heat; to keep the aircon in the buildings. So you can park your car in a building, take the tunnel to work, stop and get lunch, go visit another major corporation HQ for a meeting, get your hair cut, have some dinner, a drink or two, and never have to go outside in the heat. That means that most, if not all, of the entrances are on private property so they usually have security to keep the 'undesireables' out. It's both good and bad, in that sense.

[@colormedubious4747]

It's not hard at all to get in and out of the tunnel network. I've entered from parking garages, the Hyatt, the mall, and elsewhere.

[@QobelD]

When I was in downtown Houston I did wonder why it seemed like a recently abandoned ghost city.

[@colormedubious4747]

@@QobelD Three reasons: Heat, humidity, and rain. For best results, visit in November through February.

[@brucehouck7607]

I'm disappointed Houston didn't make the list. When I worked downtown, I was in the tunnel system every day. If I had to go from Chase Tower to First City Tower, it was underground all the way. It's funny to think that many people that live and grew up here aren't aware of the tunnels.

[@brucehouck7607]

@@colormedubious4747 I never saw security limiting access either. I think the secuirty they mentioned must be the office building lobby security where is everywhere regardless of having a tunnel entrance. Entrances do shut down when the building's shut down at the close of business...

[@photodube]

Like Montreal, Toronto also has a huge underground retail and commerce system called PATH. Thousands of people use it daily to commute and shop.

[@jodivandyk3649]

I was just about to mention it!

[@jonnygzz1631]

I was so confused why he didn't mention it 😭😭😭😭😭

[@Adam-zf8hn]

7:15 as a native speaker, I just wanted to point out that 1. This name actually just means "Helsinki Underground" in Swedish (our other official language) 2. This is actually the Swedish name, in Finnish we call it "Helsinki Asematunneli" which means Helsinki (railroad) station tunnel

[@vb8801]

As a Montrealer, it will forever make me laugh that tourists come to visit our underground. It's genuinely just a connection of malls/metro stations so we don't have to walk outside in the winter and is used primarily as commuter space 😂

[@martink8080]

While called the "underground", because Montreal is built on a slope, parts of those indoor spaces and connections are actually above ground. It all started as direct connections from store basements to the nearest subway station (metro) and grew from those ever since. It also means that some parts are isolated and only accessible from a nearby metro station and not directly to each other. So a valid transit pass is still needed to fully use the system.

[@Alfred-Neuman]

I remember the first time I went there as a kid, it was just before Christmas and I felt like I was in New York or something. Almost everybody around us seemed to talk in English and I wasn't used to this because we were living in the suburbs of Montreal, which was probably more than 99% french speaking. Now I only go there when I want to be looked with disgust by some rich English people from the west island... ;)

[@foobar1500]

Sounds like description of Helsinki, apart from the fact that as far as I understand, central Montreal is more systematically connected. Helsinki does have a lot of dual-use underground spaces because we take defence very seriously, but most of them are not interconnected. At the same time it should be stated that there is an insane amount of officially unrecognised state security (and other) networks - which many actually know to exist - below the surface in Helsinki and beyond. Those *are* interconnected. Good luck with trying to find anybody who would be willing to tell any details worth the effort, though...

[@wailingalen]

As a Floridian, hearing about underground stuff fascinates me especially spaces whose function is to contain people!!! It might be "normal" for you but it's something to be admired for us outsiders 😊

[@lowstringc]

Yes, an underground, interconnected commuter space to enable movement and life while avoiding the winter is such an intriguing thing. Even if you’re used to it, it’s a pretty great thing.

[@mayoite160]

I'm surprised you didn't mention Asimov at all, nor the fact that future moon and mars bases will have huge underground areas to avoid cosmic radiation

[@Kinuhbud]

That's how the Martians lived in Futurama IIRC. Also probably more of a Why Files Video if we're talking about underground Martian Bases or stuff on the moon.

[@ShadowedCross]

Yep, there are lava tubes on the moon, some of which could be big enough to build habitats in.

[@elleo4218]

As someone from Montreal it’s so cool to hear it mentioned here! I used to walk as long as possible underground during the winter to get home, it’s kind of mind-blowing how far you can go without feeling the cold 😭

[@isomeme]

On the evening of my first full day visiting Tokyo, my hosts took me out to dinner at a fancy restaurant in the Senjuku district. This involved taking the subway from the neighborhood where I was staying to one end of the Senjuku underground station/mall complex, then walking through the complex for a couple of kilometers before popping up to the surface world right next to the building where our restaurant was located. Between residual jet lag, culture shock, the language barrier, and the massive sensory overload of brightly colored lights both below and above ground, this was one of the most deliriously overwhelming experiences I've ever had.

[@HavianEla]

Thank you for not demonizing people suffering with homelessness! I don’t expect you to get on a soapbox and make a political statement about this issue, but I just appreciate the basic human decency you’re showing our fellow man!

[@mikezappulla4092]

Why would he have demonized homelessness? This video had nothing to do with it.

[@360.Tapestry]

if i was willing to shill out the upfront cost for a modified vehicle, i might be a lot happier living in a van or rv

[@aiocafea]

the language was still not perfect like oh yeah obvs there's drug abuse and alcohol abuse and mental illness, but some people yk are normal and are just goin' through it obviously he didn't mean it like that, but it's written like it should be difficult for the average watcher to feel empathy for the first categories

[@dustinspivey2519]

@@mikezappulla4092lol that’s a bot!

[@thesatsui]

It caught me off-guard how you stated the Morlocks in The Time Machine were evil. HG Wells's novel never depicted them as evil but just evolved humans to live underground. Lack of food growth underground forced them to come above and eat, but the people living above ground prevented them from eating their food, so the Morlocks resorted to eating people above ground.

[@zubairhasan9434]

Yeah I was wondering the same. But most importantly when he mentioned about this novel I was hit in nostalgia cause I read this book like when I was 12 or something. Those vivid memories of morlocks really just flushed in my mind the moment he mentioned them. Funny at first I was thinking where did I hear/read this morlocks word 😂

[@krashd]

I hoped Edinburgh would get a mention, Scotland's capital was so rundown a few centuries ago that they just built a new city on top of the old one.

[@BeamerMT1979]

I believe they did that with Seattle too.

[@DavidSmith-vr1nb]

All major cities get like that after a certain length of time, unless there is some geological aspect to prevent it.

[@zrez2241]

Yeah cuz that makes sense 👍

[@DannyJoh]

Underjordiska (undergroundy) is actually a Swedish word, not Finnish. You almost nailed the pronunciation, but the stress is on the "jor" not the "dis". 😉

[@JoeZUGOOLA]

Finnish, Swedish and even Swiss are the same language.. a language called "yeegan yargen flagen"

[@lenajesse]

That was an interesting choice...to use a swedish word instead of a finnish one. It would've been funnier if he'd tried saying "pommisuojat" / "maanalaiset pommisuojat"...or settle for just "bomb shelters", because this is an english language video after all 🤭

[@krisselissan6539]

⁠​⁠@@lenajesse I think the actual name of it in Finnish is ‘Helsingin maanalainen kaupunki’, which would also have been very funny to hear him try to pronounce

[@Ametisti]

I did notice it was Swedish, as opposed to Finnish, though moreso from "Helsingfors"

[@TheSimChannel]

underjor-diska (with stress on "dis") is a verb and refers to the cleaning of dishes below ground.

[@CharlieDoubleWhiskey]

You missed out on the PATH network in Toronto. Similar to the Montreal reso, but more contiguous. Reso is slightly larger, but is not a single network. PATH connects a huge area of the core of downtown Toronto.

[@julienraulet2155]

I worked as a night security in Reso for a few weeks some years ago, It is all a single netwotk, you can walk the whole thing without taking the metro.

[@BoringLuu]

Perfect timing to post a video, I was looking for something to watch!

[@oofmydude8173]

Same bro

[@lenajesse]

The Helsinki underground bombshelters don't have a church...well, at least the Temppeliaukio church shown is not part of said system (even though there's a bomb shelter built next to it). That church is just one tourist trap built into bit of bedrock. Not too far from the Helsinki center, there's a place called Kotkavuori ("eagle mountain" in english...but it's just a hill) where some were planning to build a "cave church" underground (in the years after WW2), but that project got as far as the "cave" part. Now apparently the said mysterious underground space is used by the Navy in the style of Cheyenne Mountain Complex...including an area around it, where civillians aren't allowed to enter.

[@CeeMartinezSaysHi]

I for one welcome our underground overlords....

[@inhumanfilth681]

Underlords*

[@michaelgonzales500]

All hail the underlords​@@inhumanfilth681

[@CeeMartinezSaysHi]

@inhumanfilth681 *taps forehead* ahhhh yes of course! 😅

[@shaggyrogers2712]

Video posted 30 minutes ago. Comment from 5 days ago...?

[@CeeMartinezSaysHi]

@@shaggyrogers2712 I'm speaking from the underground

[@johnpeterson462]

1:03 this is actually a genuine fear/curiosity I have, like in certain places you have no way of knowing if theres someone beneath you

[@ParallelPenguins]

There's a whole bunch of tunnels under Winnipeg in Canada too. It's mostly just a mall, but I've gotten lost in there before.

[@logicoutloud]

The Time Machine with Guy Pearce was a fav of mine

[@euansmith3699]

Jeremy Irons looked great at the Uber-morlock.

[@LuisSierra42]

Absolutely despised that movie personally

[@360.Tapestry]

i wanted to like that move. always found it boring each time i try to watc

[@Baelthaazar]

I'm a bit disappointed that "The Path" in Toronto Ontario, Canada wasn't mentioned.

[@Davethreshold]

When I was a Kiddo, I saw the original Time Machine in the theater! I was ENTHRAWLED with the contraption more than anything. If you watch it restored/Bluray, it STILL holds up quite well!

[@SilentStormParadox]

11:34 could you expand more on this idea of a "remote skylight"? I've wondered why no one has come up with that concept and then there it is and it got glossed over. But I think the idea is very important for indoor farms and other applications.

[@bathbomber]

I was waiting for you to mention Coober Pedy (pronounced "Peedee") absolutely fascinating place.

[@GeckoHiker]

We homestead in the Ozarks, living in a mostly underground home. We built it in the late 70s to take advantage of the stable underground temperatures in order to do away with HVAC and most refrigeration needs. When solar power became sensible we were able to go off-grid completely. The house design collects water for household use and agricultural irrigation. We have several caves on the property and adapted one for secure storage. I foresee this type of design being used as a solution to climate change and weather disasters. We even grow food year-round due to the stable underground temperatures. So we will be hibernating throufh the polar vortex again this year.

[@Cojrak]

Kuka tahansa myi ulkkareille ajatuksen siitä että stadin pommisuojat on jotenkin mielenkiintoinen konsepti ansaitsis kyllä jonkinlaisen tiedonlevityspokaalin

[@WinniGladstone]

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

[@simonscott1121]

nitpick: It's pronounced like "Coober Peedy"

[@Nefville]

2 million subs. Congrats. I remember what probably 10 years ago or something like that when I first found this channel and then not all that long ago when you hit 1 million. I thought it was long overdue but it seems people are finally catching on. Congrats.

[@2handsomeforlaw]

So cool, I have always felt drawn to having an underground lair.

[@euansmith3699]

Yeah, Super Villain Volcano Lairs seem high-maintenance and potentially deadly. A simple, classic, underground lair is definitely the way to go. 😄👍

[@Megnificent.]

1:58 *Stalagmites have entered the chat*

[@Thunderball.Mcgillicutty]

What about Underground Atlanta......That was here during the civil war and is still in function today.

[@trevorgwelch7412]

Hello Mr Joe Scott ... I had a very strange encounter with a Major General of the US Department of Defence in 1999 . He spoke about deep underground tunnels with maglev trains . These tunnels connect many US Military bases together . Some of these access points are in the lower area of major hotels , offices etc . Have you heard of this ?

[@mikedmp]

We're back bois

[@piotrskodowski7544]

I had been in the one in Helsinki. Its actually not only this one place but many inf not most shops and services are located on sublevels of normal buildings in adjusted bunkers every building has to have due to their law. Pretty impressive.

[@jasonroosa2475]

Fun fact: garbage pail kids were corralled to an undisclosed underground city

[@Kinuhbud]

w-what? like that's the 'lore' or the backstory for the garbage pail kids? their only belonging... a pail... they're lucky if they have a shovel.

[@AZFlyingCook]

"There could be someone living under you right now." I was having a nice day. We were ALL having a nice day, Joe!

[@michaelkeller5927]

I live in an apartment and I can confirm there is indeed someone living below me

[@mattsaunders8577]

😂​@@michaelkeller5927

[@5thGenNativeTexan]

For someone from Texas, how could you forget the massive underground retail, shopping, restaurants, etc under Houston ??

[@FelonyVideos]

Even most people in Houston dont know about it. Only downtowners know, probably. I cant imagine anyone going there unless they were being paid. 😂

[@185MDE]

If we all lived underground, what would underground music genres be called?

[@JK_Clark]

deeper underground

[@185MDE]

@@impertinenzija26 STELLARATOR AND TOKAMAK!!!

[@aiocafea]

bedrock scene

[@aserta]

One of my clients has a bunker underneath his house and he basically treats it as an extension of the house. He's in there in the winter and up top in the summer. The house has an excellent natural draft setup that cools it in the summer without so much a single drop of electricity. 1950's house - well made.

[@bukem203]

Interesting fact: The song virtual insanity by Jamiroquai was inspired by the underground town in Sendai, Japan

[@Mark-j9d8r]

I think you'll find that that song like every track they ever did was stolen. It was ripped off from a track called Samurai by Stevie Wonder and Djavan.

[@jeandreterblanche418]

In South Africa, there are illigall miners that live in abandoned mines. They live there and work (Illigal mining) there. Sometimes staying there for months without seeing sunlight

[@danielhale1]

The inverted pyramid seems like a smarter idea than The Line in Saudi Arabia. Structurally, building down can be a lot easier than building super high up because you have all the rock and soil around you to support your structure. Then the whole thing can rely a lot on compression (and we have a lot of cheap materials that are great for passive compression, e.g. rock arches and stone pillars). Making the top surface solar panels is a great idea to both shade the area below and generate power, but wouldn't be enough to support the full complex underneath (you'd need to extend the panels outward quite a lot, but at least it'd provide some power). Not sure if the inverted pyramid will work out -- we'll have to see if it finishes and turns out nice.

[@JK_Clark]

Maybe have a pyramid of solar cells on top?

[@itsROMPERS...]

One advantage is that you don't really need heat or cooling to the same degree as on the surface because the temp is generally a very steady and liveable temperature. You could sink a couple geothermal shafts and generate all the power you need from that. You wouldn't have to hassle with unreliable solar panels at all, which is good because solar requires batteries to make up for when the sun isn't shining, or "nighttime". Geothermal is 24/7 of course, so no batteries are needed, and it can never run out, and it can easily be throttled to accommodate demand, as long as the match plant can generate as much as is needed at the highest level of demand, which is simple to do: sink shafts and add generators.

[@danielhale1]

@@JK_Clark Like I said, you can put solar cells above and that will generate a nominal amount of power, but you've gotta go in understanding it'll be a drop in the bucket. All the different shops down there will need a lot more power than that cross section of cells can provide. It'll slightly offset power use.

[@danielhale1]

​@@itsROMPERS... Yea, being underground is a great way to reduce exposure to surface temps. It could even get too cold or too hot, but you'll have some surface air exchange anyway (for fresh air) and that'll help a lot. I'd love to see stuff like this take off, but I don't know how cost-effective it is outside of extreme conditions like desert or tundra.

[@itsROMPERS...]

@@danielhale1 the great thing as I understand it is that it is basically the same temperature underground no matter where you are. My understanding is the temp is roughly somewhere around 50⁰F all the time, which means you don't need a, and any required heating would be minimal (raising the temp 20⁰ is pretty easy), and you could do that by simply pumping in surface air in some locations. One problem is you might have to do dehumidification, but that's not too hard, just build it in. I've actually always thought about building a house at least partially underground for these benefits. I think it would be cool to have an atrium house with the house sub-grade but a large open atrium in the middle that all rooms opened into. A retractable glass roof, and you could have a nice outdoor space, maybe a garden, all year round even in the north. I live in the American SW, so the climate is perfect for it here, and it could run easily off solar, although in my mind geothermal is ideal because it's not intermittent like solar. But it's much more expensive especially if you want to generate electricity from it. But where I am (NM) the sun basically shines all the time. Dreams! 🤗

[@phoenixedraws]

funny how these videos are on one hand extremely interesting and just fun to learn from but also a great source of inspiration for both world building and ideas for adventures (in pen and paper systems)

[@stratman103]

9:20. What the hell is that thing at the bottom of the shot? Is that a spaceship from Mos Eisley?

[@CthulhuLives69]

Crashed Ship prop from "Pitch Black" movie

[@robbturner]

Well, it looks like showers and toilets per the sign. 😂

[@Lord.Kiltridge]

There is a mostly underground pedestrian walkway network called PATH in downtown Toronto that spans more than 30 kilometres of restaurants, shopping, services and entertainment. The walkway connects to public transit and accommodates more than 200,000 business-day commuters as well as tourists and residents.

[@tncorgi92]

Isn't Mexico City built on soft ground, susceptible to earthquakes? I wonder how they're engineering that underground city to deal with that.

[@galaxyanimal]

It was originally Tenochtitlan during Aztec times, which was an island in a lake, but much of modern Mexico City is the filled in/drained lake.

[@gfdia35]

Congrats on 2M Subs my friend 🎉🎉🎉

[@Iowa599]

Undergound housing really is the answer to pollution... Why burn resources to cool a house when the basement was already cool?

[@AL-lh2ht]

In reality this is not exactly true.

[@Iowa599]

@@AL-lh2ht you're right, sometimes the basement is warmer...when it is cold outside.

[@360.Tapestry]

i've always wanted an underground hut. seems like it would be so cozy and quiet because the earth will dampen sound

[@Iowa599]

@@360.Tapestry my previous house was built halfway underground, into the side of a hill. It was very quiet in the back rooms!

[@khathecleric]

This is actually not true, because the pollution then builds up underground and needs to go somewhere, and the more people living in an underground space the more cooling it needs. All those underground retail areas have racks upon racks of air conditioning ducting cooling underground and consumes massive amounts of electricity.

[@davidhall75]

Turns out Dallas also has an unterutilized underground retail tunnel network. I used to live in Montreal, so I can say there's absolutely no comparison, but the intent is the same--to avoid extreme weather. Montreal in the Winter is -400 degrees, and Dallas in the Summer is 4000 degrees.

[@MichellePocket]

@11:07 id be more worried about earthquakes.

[@IanZainea1990]

Fun fact. If you're underground in an earthquake. You're fine. Only the man made structures will shake and break. Like lights and shelves and things. All the rock moves as one unit. Unless of course you're directly on the fault line.

[@Poli.Zygotikk]

Your videos are so interesting and fun to watch, thanks for keeping my curiosity piqued! I'm going back to school in a year thanks partly to your vids!

[@jimdavidsmith4374]

"Caves of Steel", by Asimov.

[@PrimaGosse]

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

[@bluegamemc1403]

I would love to live underground. Seems cozy...

[@Bummerdrummer463]

I lived in a basement once. Too many bugs!

[@roempoetliar7995]

what stops you from digging your own hole then? go for it

[@filonin2]

@@roempoetliar7995 No shovel

[@blacksheepboyz]

Thanks Joe, your shows really do give me something to look forward to.

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

We all know Stargate is in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. 🤫

[@quillaja]

I was hoping Joe would show the same clip of the entrance that was used over and over again in SG1.

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

@@quillaja lol

[@ComboBreakerHD]

Montreal's RESO is a disconnected mess of underground tunnels. Toronto's PATH is continuous mess of underground tunnels. But while RESO has a longer overall length (TO PATH doesn't include the thousands of shorter tunnels not connected to it like RESO does), the PATH is the largest underground shopping complex on Earth.

[@maolcogi]

4:00 KZbin is getting pretty pathetic with censorship. You have to censor MUMMIES!? Like come on KZbin, that's just lame.

[@rontonkin7751]

Really enjoy your videos, Joe. Nicely Done!

[@SolRC]

Drugs and mental health are consistent with being under a hard time or falling on hard times. Social stigma is gross.

[@swampfoxIX]

I live in Crystal City, Arlington Virginia, just across the river from DC (Crystal City Underground)....though it somewhat pales in comparison to the ones mentioned in this video. Also, Amazon is pretty much closing everything down in the Underground because they want all the shops, restaurants, apartments, entertainment, etc...above ground. It was a cool concept, though.

[@sween187]

People living under me 🤔🤔🤔 think they prefer to be called Australians

[@anonymouse2675]

Are they living under you, or are you living under them?

[@twoshirts1842]

Another banger, Joe! I love these type of videos from you.

[@PhilRounds]

Ever read "Caves of Steel" by Asimov?

[@quazaar]

The college (became a university as I went there) back in the 90s finished their underground section while I was going there as well. The library, computer center, cafeteria, some classrooms are all located there. It also joined most of the other buildings (dorms, class, admin). You could wear shorts all year long in Iowa. FYI, is Buena Vista university.

[@hellodisdat]

It's pronounced 'peedy' as in I just peed not pedi like pedometer

[@dwilliamsnetosnet]

Underground Seattle is pretty cool - a bit unique in its creation. The Great Seattle Fire in the summer of 1889 and elevated road ways instigated a new 1st floor at the 2nd floor level of the buildings.

[@ioresult]

12:27 why isn't this blurred.

[@francb1276]

We visited Coober Pedy when touring the Australian Outback in a tiny campervan some years ago. No-one has air conditioning or heating in those underground homes - temperature is almost constant in the 20s Celsius even though it might be 50 outside. The story we were told is that someone realised a spent opal mine was a great place to live whilst mining elsewhere, and everything went from there. The church in the photo we actually visited, it is beautifully cool in the physical sense as well as the aesthetic! They also have a golf course with no grass (Not underground - it looks like just one big bunker!), said to be affiliated to the famous St Andrews in Scotland, so if you are a member of either you can play on the other!

[@enque01]

The Kiruna mine subterranean staging area is basically a corporate-owned underground city at 1300 meters depth. You have to DRIVE through tunnels for hours to get to the offices and restaurants down there.

[@bimblinghill]

There's a network of tunnels under Liverpool. Joseph Williamson was an industrialist became known as the 'mole of Edge Hill' after spending the latter half of his life spending his large fortune employing labourers to dig a network of tunnels and huge vaulted spaces. Opinions vary as to whether he was motivated by providing employment in the recession after the Napoleonic Wars, or pure eccentricity. As a student I became tangentially involved in a project to open parts of them to the public.

[@kathrynandtheoverbytes]

I’ve stayed in Cooper Pedy a number of times. It’s hot as hell. Dry as a bone. Dust and sand everywhere and the wind howls through the region. So there is dust/sand everywhere and gets in everything, even though the homes are underground. It also has a strange eerie feeling about the place. It’s a very unsettling place if you’re a sensitive person.

[@FrankGraffagnino]

i feel like the future cities underground missed an opportunity to talk about potential underground dwellings on other planetary surfaces. great video!

[@lobomarin5459]

Haha I´m from Guanajuato, I did NOT expect to see my city in a video in this channel ever...also your pronunciation is hilarious xD

[@kwith]

Moose Jaw citizen here. The tunnels are really interesting. There are three different tunnel tours you can take, each with its own theme. One is Al Capone themed and quite entertaining. Another talks about Chinese immigration to Canada and the hardships they had to endure. More informative. The third is themed around the Cold War. I haven't been to this one as its fairly new but the other two I've done a few times. Definitely worth checking out.

[@BertVirginia]

She felt that chill that makes the hairs on the back of your neck when he walked into the room.

[@goldyguns9545]

this is the guy that never stopped learning. awesome to see!

[@jsEMCsquared]

You had me with the time machine! I think that movie had The Greatest Influence on me for my limited journey through My Time! In a matter time shortly i am going to watch it again! And again?

[@AreTwo2]

Great work Joe.

[@philipmumford7871]

You find such cool subjects Joe even after all this time!

[@fluffyyote]

The section on the Canadian mall reminds me of SUNY Oswego with their underground passageways to help people escape the weather, I don’t think they’re used too often nowadays but they exist

[@maotseovich1347]

Your concern about Mexico City's Earthscraper could easily be fixed by using the kind of "glass" used in aquarium tanks. The amount of force that acrylic that's that thick can resist is incredible.