So, there's this hole ...

[Ja Rhule]

Looks like that place is over 100 years old but someone maintain, they install those wooden walls to support rusted metal above. Preventing street above from caving in. Actually, many major streets have these structures, that's where all pipes and valves would be located. The usual entrance to these kind of areas are through a manhole. Some older cities like Chicago and New York have miles long underground tunnels like that.

[Mother Grabber]

DC tried to make a big shopping/night club area in the tunnels under Dupont Circle. But they ran out of $$ for the project, so now they just have a boatload of halfway developed tunnels. They have a nice website, though:

http://www.dupontunderground.org/

[KendrickPanther]

Ninja Turtle Base

[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

So confused by the angle. It shows as if you were standing in this compartment, yet the hole is a straight down shot... If that makes any sense.

[Brooklyn Bully]

Oh. It used to be a dead end sign. When Sandy came through, it blew over. Then they took the sign away, leaving the odd hole. It's next to a storage place so I imagine it's their unused basement perhaps. I'm actually starting a blog where I photograph places you can't see in. So far I have this one, one looking down the inside of a fire hydrant, and one looking up a massive expressway drainage pipe.

[LifeisaGarden]

Oh god, I'm so glad I let him go to work.

[CardiacCats]

So confused by the angle. It shows as if you were standing in this compartment, yet the hole is a straight down shot... If that makes any sense.

i was thinking the same....

[Kevin Greene]

Oh god, I'm so glad I let him go to work.

[Kevin Greene]

i was thinking the same....

Gravity boots.

[Jase]

If I'm going to stick something in a random hole and see what happens, a camera wouldn't be my first choice.

[Kevin Greene]

If I'm going to stick something in a random hole and see what happens, a camera wouldn't be my first choice.

Go ahead and stick your little buddy through this hole.

[Herbert The Love Bug]

I would have stuck my weiner in the hole first

[Mr. Scot]

i was thinking the same....

Me too.

[Brooklyn Bully]

So confused by the angle. It shows as if you were standing in this compartment, yet the hole is a straight down shot... If that makes any sense.

Do you mean how did I take it? I have a monopod. I screwed my little camera on it. It extends to like eight ft. I stuck it down in the hole with the flash and timer on. Then I took the shot of the hole to show what I found.

http://chasmflasher.tumblr.com/