OKC Underground — Attraction in Oklahoma City

We enjoyed exploring these tunnels for at least a couple of hours. I learned more about OKC in that time than perhaps any city I've been to (except London - I read the book - but I digress). It was also nice to be out of the heat.

There were two photos that, taken together, don't seem believable as described. According to the captions, one was taken of OKC April 22, 1889, and the next on May 13, 1889 - just 3 weeks later. Not only has an entire city appeared in 3 weeks, but additional rail lines, and an outhouse added in the foreground. What really seems implausible, though, is a massive pile of dirt in the first photo has disappeared 3 weeks later, with no sign it was ever there - even the grass has grown back perfectly. In three weeks. I'd love to know how the dates were authenticated.

We can learn a lot from our elders, so I really enjoyed the quotes and photos of people who had made it to be 100 years old.

We entered through a door in a parking garage, but there's an escalator right up front in the BancFirst building that's probably easier to find. I'm...

Came here on the reccomendation of atlas obscura, excited to see the art and shops it had. I was kind of disappointed to see very little art. There were very sparse photo installations that detailed the history of the city, but even that was few and far between. At one point we walked past what was at one point a cafe, though it was dark and empty with a for lease sign plastered on the window. There was one beautiful mural and a nice portrait gallery about some elderly residents of the state, but otherwise there was really not much to see. Which was very disappointing. This had so much promise for a hidden art gallery, showing off some of the local artists in the city, a hidden gem to draw people to the city. But it seems to have been relegated to a walkway for people to get between business when they don't want to walk above ground. Over all I was pretty...

A bit boring. If you want to learn some history, that's cool, but if you're not an OKC native, the history is hardly supplemented by anything relevant. The "Light" Room was something I looked forward to but unfortunately it's just some LED lights on the wall (which make good photos like you're in a brightly colored Twilight film). The art appears to be mostly murals on the wall, which makes sense but maybe could be a bit more interesting in terms of the amount of it. Overall, the place is quite unambitious and barely worth your time, as calling this place a "tunnel" is everything short from the biologist's perception in Jeff Vandermeer's "Annihilation" series: a basement is not a tunnel, and gives no connotation as to what you...