Dangerous, illegal, but nevertheless fascinating:

http://www.sleepycity.net/posts/252/...he_Paris_Metro

Awesome! Thanks for the forbidden trip.

There are also official visits a couple of times of year, using one of the old Sprague trains.

http://www.patrimoine-ferroviaire.com/ademas/ademas.php

Wow!. I think it must be Crois rouge that you can see between Mabillon and Sevres Babylon, right? I have always been fascinated by it. I thought I once saw it as the background for some fashion shoot that I saw in a magazine. And to think that once I finally managed to get into Val du Grace church that I'd checked off just about everything on the Paris list. This opens a whole new world.!!

That should be Croix Rouge, of course.

Wow, that's incredible. I will spend my future time on the Metro looking for lost stations out the window, rather than for pickpockets inside the carriages.

I'll need to study that web site when I have more time. Great photography.

Out in my neighborhood, metro stations are never abandoned in cold weather.

http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/q...life/001-8.jpg

I have a fascination for these kind of "abandoned" or derelict buildings and places. I found this website where the artist has an Abandoned Buildings Project" and a book that can be bought.

http://www.jane-samuels.com/

very cool - thanks

Here is a site about London's Ghost underground stations:
http://underground-history.co.uk/front.php

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