Some interesting stuff about Nottingham in the UK here. Over 500 caves in the city.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-26816897

Any other real-world places that would be cool to include in a game?

Lanzarote has two volcanic sites, an historical one (north) where the boulder fields are still fresh, and an ancient one (east) where lots of weird vegetation has grown back over the volcanic rocks. Lava tubes in a few places, and Cesar Manrique turned one into a house. They grow their grape vines in individual pockets in the volcanic rock.

Great place if you like fish, too.

Quote from: One Horse Town;752315Some interesting stuff about Nottingham in the UK here. Over 500 caves in the city.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-26816897

Any other real-world places that would be cool to include in a game?

Here in Mass, in Nahant there are some old dissued World War II bunkers with all sorts of tunnels in the hills by the coast. One of them was converted into a marine lab I believe but another is boarded up. As kids we used to go into them for fun. Great source for a call of cthulu campaign if you need anything dungeon like.

Some links:

http://www.dovaka.net/wickedlytwisted/nahant_bunkers.html

http://www.coastdefense.com/nahant.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Point_Military_Reservation

A couple weeks ago I finished reading the book Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, by Elyssa East. On the Cape Ann Peninsula in Massachusetts is the famous town of Gloucester. Part of Gloucester is this 3000+ acre wood called Dogtown. Through the past 300 years of history the place has had an odd hold on people. Just walking through it people say they sense something different about the place. Supposed witches have lived there, runaway slaves, privateers etc. In 1984 a murder took place there. Developers want to get their hands on the property but the insular folk who live on the peninsula refuse to allow it, most want it preserved.

Sounds like the perfect place for intrigue and mystical events in northern Massachusetts.

Detroit sits on one of the largest sale mines in the world. The central shaft runs more than 1,000 feet down, and it's tiny, so all the big equipment had to be disassembled and reassembled. But the mine closed in the 1980s, and lifting things out costs money, so everything was left behind. There is still heavy machinery, antique cars (without roofs, because the ceiling is low), donkey skeletons, and much more in vast caverns linked by over 100 miles of roads. While the mine has since partially reopened, the public tours were never restarted. So what's been happening for the last two decades, in the secret undercity that runs under Detroit and its suburbs?
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/anthropology-and-history/news-salt-city-1200-feet-beneath-detroit

I've been in Ape Cave in Washington State; just a stone's throw from Mt. St. Helens

http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/ape-cave

It's pretty neat!  Sadly I had the wrong speed film so I didn't get any good pictures inside

Heck, while we're talking Massachusetts sites ...

In WWII, the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy was overloaded, and they built a satellite shipyard two towns south, in Hingham, to crank out Liberty Ships and destroyers.  While that was a landmark in of itself (the world's largest single interior room was built there for fabrication purposes), behind the Shipyard was the Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot Annex, a sprawling facility used to store munitions for the Atlantic Fleet.  It had a railroad spur, thousands of workers.  During the Korean War it held the first nuclear depth charges.

The place was shut down in 1962, but not demolished.  There were dozens and dozens of bunkers there, and the remains of the building facilities.  It's along a river bank, and now heavily forested.

Long abandoned, the bunkers started to be commandeered by partying teenagers and the homeless, and it all came to a head about a decade ago, when a couple really twisted teenagers lured two homeless men into a bunker, tortured them for hours, killed them, cut them into pieces, and started brandishing body parts around to show how tough they were.  (Waving a severed foot in a baggie around at a party was how the case broke.)

So ... abandoned site, near to heavy population areas, almost within eyesight of Boston across the harbor, deserted bunkers, torture/murders ... and nukes.  Are we sure that the kids who were bagged for tearing those poor derelicts to pieces were the real perps -- or was it something more sinister?  WITH NUKES.

Quote from: Ravenswing;752377Heck, while we're talking Massachusetts sites ...

In WWII, the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy was overloaded, and they built a satellite shipyard two towns south, in Hingham, to crank out Liberty Ships and destroyers.  While that was a landmark in of itself (the world's largest single interior room was built there for fabrication purposes), behind the Shipyard was the Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot Annex, a sprawling facility used to store munitions for the Atlantic Fleet.  It had a railroad spur, thousands of workers.  During the Korean War it held the first nuclear depth charges.

The place was shut down in 1962, but not demolished.  There were dozens and dozens of bunkers there, and the remains of the building facilities.  It's along a river bank, and now heavily forested.

Long abandoned, the bunkers started to be commandeered by partying teenagers and the homeless, and it all came to a head about a decade ago, when a couple really twisted teenagers lured two homeless men into a bunker, tortured them for hours, killed them, cut them into pieces, and started brandishing body parts around to show how tough they were.  (Waving a severed foot in a baggie around at a party was how the case broke.)

So ... abandoned site, near to heavy population areas, almost within eyesight of Boston across the harbor, deserted bunkers, torture/murders ... and nukes.  Are we sure that the kids who were bagged for tearing those poor derelicts to pieces were the real perps -- or was it something more sinister?  WITH NUKES.

Had they seen the Yellow Sign?

Dover England is a tremendous place to visit. The castle is awesome and the WWII communications HQ for the Royal armed forces is underground, carved out of the chalk. A real catacomb feel.

Aside from that, the landscape is inspiring. Sheer cliffs rising from the ocean.

Numerous sites in Cappadocia, a.k.a. "Tucker's Kobolds for real".

Quote from: Doughdee222;752355Sounds like the perfect place for intrigue and mystical events in northern Massachusetts.

Come visit and I'll take you for a tour. 'bout a half mile from my house : )

There is a popular book series in the U.S. called "Weird in..." and the name of a state. I flipped through a friend's copy for Ohio and thought about using a lot of it in games. For example, there is a town that was abandoned when the federal government turned all the surrounding land into a national forest. Roads to it are closed off, the buildings still stand, but are boarded up and some have been burnt down by local firemen for practice. There are all kinds of rumors and superstitions about the place ranging from satanic cultists to weird radiation being the real cause of the evacuation with the national forest set up as a front.

Could totally turn that into game material. The King of the land came from a village that no longer exists on anything but ancient maps. After becoming King, the village was evacuated (or put to the torch, depending on who you ask) and the area surrounding it was turned into a royal hunting reserve.
Just with that I could have a haunted ruined town full of ghosts or mutants and treasure, a secret fort, crazy monsters, tough as nails game wardens, a hideout, and who knows what else.

Quote from: Tyndale;752425Come visit and I'll take you for a tour. 'bout a half mile from my house : )

I was last in Rockport maybe 8 years ago, went to a wedding overlooking the sea. The couple now lives in Gloucester. I have a college buddy who lives in Rockport on Marmion Way, a gamer named Paul D. Can't come up this year, maybe next year.

And despite being there several times I had never heard of Dogtown until this book came out.