Some cities are above ground, and that's cool,
but some cities are (scary voice) underground and
- they're amazing! - Let's talk about that.
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- When Link and I were growing up, - (giggles)
anytime we had an opportunity to go underground, we did so.
That usually consisted of us going into Justin McCloud's backyard and opening up
- (laughs) the manhole cover. - (laughs)
And we pretty much just went down in the sewer. I'm not kidding.
- We would go down in the sewer and-- - (yells) Don't do that!
And we'd sort of look at each other like, "Well here we are again! There's poop,"
- (crew laughs) - but that was as good as we could get.
There were no underground cities where we come from.
But today, right now, with us, you are going to go into some underground
cities that are pretty awesome, at least mentally,
and you'll probably look at a few pictures if we put them on the screen
- (hisses) - while we are talking about them.
Starting with Derinkuyu. I said it right. Maybe.
- Derinkuyu. - Underground city in Turkey.
This is an ancient underground city built in 7th to 8th century B.C.,
so a long time ago. It's large enough to shelter
approximately 20,000 people! So this is an underground city that
can shelter 20,000 people. They got churches,
- (Link) Wow. - (Rhett) food stores, livestock stalls,
- wine cellars, schools?! - What? Why do they do this?
- Well-- - Was it hot there or something?
Apparently in this area of Turkey, there was just this really
- easy-to-dig-into volcanic rock. - (Link) Porous?
- It was just waiting to happen. - I mean, looking at this,
it looks like an ant maze, and then at the very bottom--
Is that like the water bed? Like the water creeps up into the homes?
Yeah. Yeah. And so they basically had air vents on top--
They had like 15,000 air vents. They had all these places that they could
get water, and then there were 600 access points that were all coming from the
surface, in people's like-- courtyards! Now this thing was built thousands
of years ago, and then, all of a sudden, in 1963, a dude finds an entrance to
the city in his house. This is like a dream come true.
- Woah! - Do you understand what would happen to
- me if I found an underground city-- - You fall in?
in my house? I wouldn't tell anybody first of all.
I'd keep it to myself and maybe some close friends. I might tell you about it.
- Put it on AirBNB? - (laughs) Put it on AirBNB and have
- 20,000 people at a time - Have 20,000 of your friends come over.
This is amazing!
Wow!
- I'm speechless. - (laughs) Wow! That underground city
really amazed me. Anyway, this is about as cool as it gets in
- terms of something you find in a house - I know,
- that you didn't know was there. - I'll have to check it out.
Okay, so I've got one that doesn't have a cool diagram to go with it,
but it's still pretty cool. It holds 300,000 people.
- Oh, that's more. - Even more.
The underground city under Beijing known as Dixia Cheng,
also know as the underground Great Wall, was built from from 1969 to 1979.
Basically it has a massive bomb shelter against possible nuclear war with
Soviet Union. It was dug by hand by local--
- All the residents of Beijing. - That doesn't mean literally like--
- (makes digging sound) - Like that-- Yeah they had shovels
- and stuff. - The shovels.
- But it wasn't like-- Automated. - Right.
- This was a dictated endeavor (inaudible). - That's why they call it the underground
- Right. - Great Wall because the Great Wall was
- constructed in a similar fashion. - And you can still go into thing now--
Through one. There were 90 entrances to the complex.
Few of those still remain. They were hidden in shops along the
- Right. - main street so that people could
get down in there, but if you're lucky enough to get on one of these tours--
If you're Chinese you can't take one of the tours,
- and it's kind of difficult to know if - Why?
the tours are still running. I don't know. I think that's just--
- A requirement. - You have to be a foreigner.
- It's a restriction of their's, yeah. - It's a tourist attraction for one.
At least from what I read, but you can still look at the old
propaganda posters that are in there advising citizens to, quote,
"Cover their mouths in the event of nuclear, chemical, or biological attack,"
- Cover-- - That's when you do--
- Cover your mouth. - And when you sneeze--
- The-- - Or when you're attacked by a
- nuclear weapon-- - Just cover your mouth.
- Cover your mouth. - And they were equipped with restaurants,
clinics, schools, theaters, factories, a roller skating rink.
- Oh, I'd be down there. - I mean, they were ready in case--
- In my short-shorts. - Everybody had to go down into this thing.
- Yeah. - So that's pretty cool.
Roller skating has been scientifically proven to be a great way to keep people
sane when they're underground. I already knew that.
- (laughs) - I did a science project on that.
Okay, this is a little creepier than the first two examples.
This is the Nazi Underground City in Berlin, Germany.
- Under Berlin, probably. - Yes,
- Not in it. - It's under Berlin,
- and it was built by the Nazi's. - Got it.
It consists of 1000 different interconnected bunkers.
You can see the remains of Nazi murals. I don't know what's in a Nazi mural.
Maybe like a family of blonde-haired, blue-eyed people.
I don't exactly know what that is, though. Somebody will have to send us that.
- Please don't send Nazi murals on the - (laughs) Oh gosh.
- (inaudible) - We don't want those.
- I just set a trap for somebody. - (laughs)
This thing is complete with bathrooms, bedrooms, even a (speaking German),
which is a labor room for pregnant women. That's where the German women give birth.
- (makes popping sound) Pop em' right out. - In a (speaking German).
And it also includes Hitler's personal bunker called (speaking German).
- Can you visit this? - Where he shot himself in the head.
- Woah! Really? - This is where he committed suicide
at the end of World War II, but the whole thing--
Most of it was demolished after World War II.
Especially this bunker part, but you can still take tours of
certain parts of it in the Secrets of Berlin underground tour.
- Ooh. - You can see Nazi torture cells,
escape tunnels, as well as places used by Anti-Nazi resistance east German opposition
to escape. I gotta tell ya',
it seems kind of creepy when you think about it in theory,
but then when you see these like blow-up dolls that they're using as props--
- (Link) It anesthetizes you to the-- - Kinda neutral.
- To the (inaudible). - They need to upgrade their (inaudible).
- (inaudible) Yeah. - They need to go to like-- Ripley's.
Look at some of the wax figures, or is that the wax museum?
That's a different thing. They need to go to the wax museum
- and they need to have that kind of thing. - I don't know, Rhett,
but I do know that I'm going to Tunisia pretty soon
- What?! - 'cause this underground city rocks
- my world. - (laughs)
Mata-- And I don't use the saying 'Rock my world." Is that why you're laughing?
- Yeah. - 'Cause I said rock my world?
- You did. - And that's not sincere?
- I never heard you say that. - I'm sincere.
- Really? - My world is freaking rocked right now.
- (laughs) Okay. - Yours is about to be.
Is that a play on words because it's a city dug in rocks.
(laughs) No. The underground town of Matamata
in southern Tunisia, which is the northern most country in Africa.
- I already knew that. - Troglodyte structures.
Caves. Basically they dug-- They would dig pits into the ground and
make a courtyard, and then from within that pit,
they would dig caves all around the pit, and then they would sleep in those,
and it would give them relief from, you know, the African heat and things
like that. Noone had any knowledge of thier
existence. It fell out of knowledge until 1967.
- Oh, I forgot about that pit we dug - And then it came--
- with the homes around the inside. - It came back into existence.
The Hotel Sidi Driss in Matamata was used as a filming location for Star Wars.
It was Luke Skywalker's aunt and uncle's house.
The interior shots and the courtyard shots were done there,
and you can go and visit this hotel. You can stay there
according to Trip Advisor. 20 dollars a night.
If you can get there, just 20 bucks.
The reviews basically say that it's really dusty.
- Yeah. Pretty dusty. - But there's a restaurant,
and there's a bar. They also--
- Dust burgers. - They reconditioned the place when they
shot Episode 2: Attack of the Clones. They went back to that same
- Hotel Sidi Driss in Matamata. - It's probably just hard to get to is why
- it's so cheap, I would think. - Yeah, but it's pretty cool to say you
- did that. - Maybe we should plan a field trip,
and if not to there, then to Moose Jaw and see the tunnels of
Moose Jaw. This is in Saskatchewan, Canada.
They were constructed in 1908. They're originally just a series of
tunnels for a underground steam system. Then they just abandoned it.
They-- I don't know if it was ever used at all.
It was later used by Chinese rail workers to escape persecution,
but then in the 20's, it became, basically, during prohibition--
Used it for rum running. That means--
- Give you some alcohol and you run-- - (Link) Run through the tunnel,
- (Rhett) Mhm. - And make sure you don't trip on a
- moose jaw. - You know, it's basically underground
alcohol distribution, also some gambling, some prostitution,
some questionable things were happening in Moose Jaw.
- (pronouces funny) Moose Jaw - (pronouces funny) Moose.
(normal voice) back in the 20's, but now,
the city is basically capitalized on this notoriety, and restored the tunnels,
and back in June of 2000, they opened it back up as a
tourist attraction. The Tunnels of Moose Jaw.
- Sure, sure. - Now this seems like a really awesome
thing, right? So it's like, "Oh, this one you can go to,
it's in Canada, it's not too far," but then I go to Yelp,
and I start looking at the reviews, they got five reviews, two stars.
- What? Why weren't the people happy? - Well, if you ask Mina, she says,
"It's incredibly cheesy. I would recommend going with kids as they
will hopefully get a kick out of the bad special effects and moving robots,
- (pronounces funny) Bad special effects. - or going drunk as we did because
then it will seem hilarious rather than pathetic."
- Well, and that's pretty pathetic. - So not exactly a ringing endorsement for
the Tunnels of Moose Jaw, but maybe if they get their act together
and make it a little less cheesy, it'll be a cool attraction and we can go
- on a field trip there. - Or we could just go to the beach and dig
a big hole, you know? My kids love that.
- That's not-- That's dangerous. - You know-- Oh really?
- Yeah. You gotta watch out. - Okay.
- You gotta reinforce it. - Well, on to Tunisia. That's my vote.
- (laughs) - Let us know in the comments what
underground cities you think we should visit.
- And thanks for liking and commenting. - You know what time it is.
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as kids, we would go into sewer systems.
- We have reasons. - Inspirational speech about donuts.
(tapping sound) Ladies and gentlemen--
- Glad you all came today. - For this duel man inspirational
- donut speech. - Listen, life is like a donut,
which means it's got a hole of opportunity.
- And it never ends. - That's right. Life never ends.
Well, technically you're all going to die someday, but listen,
you need to make the best of that hole in your-- In the middle of yourself,
and fill with-- Uh-- You know, money and fortune.
- And-- And-- Uh-- Cars. - Cars. Cars especially will really fill
- that hole in yourself. - Yeah. Waxy cars, like shiny cars.
- Red sports cars. - Just get in that car and go into the
- hole-- - (both quietly laugh)
- Of your life. - That tunnel--
- Yeah. - Your tunnel.
- Yeah. - Take it--
- No you're hunnel. - (both laugh)
- That hole. - Take your red sports car
- That hole is a hole. - through that hole on the side
- of a mountain, - Yeah.
Yeah. That's-- Well-- That's-- Thanks for having us.
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