subways!

I have a special love of abandoned/disused subway stations, as they combine two things I love: subways and things that used to be Very Interesting and have now fallen into disrepair. Here are a few links of picture sets on this topic.

Paris stations

Abandonded stations from around the world - and in at least one case, a whole system.

London tube stations - I couldn't possibly pick just one to highlight!

prison tattoos, decision making, taxidermy

Your friendly Russian prison tattoo primer

America, meet your puppetmaster - How Eddie Bernays got you to buy books, wear hairnets, and eat bacon for breakfast

I don't know what to say about this taxidermy. Except it's amazing.

kid, pools, home

Possibly the most polite little boy ever.

8 very cool terraced pools

Possibly (probably) the world's narrowest home.

library songs, paradoxes, victorian surgeon

Song of the library staff and for good measure (ha!) Song of the cataloguer

11 "Brain Twisting" Paradoxes

One of history's most famous (infamous?) surgeons

Google, statistics, Kentucky

Google's data centers are oddly endearing, and cute to boot. I like #10, with the bike employees use to get around.

In 2011, the US was third best at liking the US.

There are more bourbon barrels in Kentucky than people.

river, subway, pictures

Could there be an underground river near the Amazon that is many times longer and wider?

The human body as a subway map. Just generally cool, but maybe also a way to introduce city kids to biology using something they're familiar with

Neat set of pictures - 25 are added quarterly to culminate in a best 100 of the year. I of course quite like this one

San Francisco

Great set of photos (two sets, actually) blending the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and current scenes of SF shot from the same place.
Part 1
Part 2

Bonus: The now-abandoned building that used to house a pool so large it was patrolled by lifeguards in rowboats.