an avid urbex enthusiast here in New York City.

As you can imagine, there are awesome sights here, but weirdly, I'd say more than 50% of

the community agree that one of the urbex holy grails is over in Cincinnati.

Yep, while Cincinnati is famous for that weird Greek chili or their OG baseball team,

among the urbex crowd it's famous for one thing, the Cincinnati subway.

For those of you that don't know, the subway was intended as a replacement for the Cincinnati

street car system.

Construction started around the end of World War I, but then after the Great Depression

hit, the project just tanked.

What remains is just over two miles of derelctunnels and stations, making it the largest

abandoned subway system in the United States.

Cracking the place is like an urbex right of passage, giving you infinite bragging rights

having explored a labyrinth of subterranean tunnels that's larger than some towns.

I thought my visit to the subway would be a dream come true.

Me and my group planned it for months and I don't think I've ever been so excited about

anything, but in reality, it turned out to be one of the most confusing and terrifying

experiences of my life, something I'll never be able to fully explain.

As I said, it took quite a bit of planning to get the four of us out to southwestern Ohio.

On top of barely being able to afford the gas money, we had to drive my friends trashy

1990 Chevy Lumina, which was in such a bad way that it had become a meme of itself.

It took almost 12 hours to get to Cincinnati, that's including a bathroom break so even

after leaving it like 9 a.m., the very earliest we could muster everyone, it was way after

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