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Hahaha! Indeed. I think it's because when they were built, they were not added onto any maps. There used to be one in the village where I was brought up. The locals knew what it was and where it was though, so not exactly top secret!

Putting ad servers in a literal nuclear bunker just to ensure that even after civilization crumbles, pop-up ads will endure.

Excellent. I’ve not been to Jodrell Bank since the 90s. Where I used to live near Cambridge was a few mins from the Lords Bridge observatory station but I was never sure if they allowed visitors.

Not been to Kelvedon but a secret bunker is worth a visit.

Yeah. Going in late evening after the museum has closed for server maintenance used to be quite interesting.

Another memory has just sprung to mind. A nearby village was home to the Manchester Regional War Room on the site of what is now the Alexander Hospital in Cheadle. Given I was a child during the cold war, it was a chilling reminder of what-could-be. It was demolished about 20 years ago.

that doesn't seem very secret

Something tells me that bunker isn't so secret 🤣

I discovered Hack Green using an old OS map that *didn't* show it! I was looking for obvious Roman roads, and found one that had an infeasibly empty triangle of land next to it. Just didn't match the texture of the rest of the map. So I went to see both... Whaddyno! A secret bunker!

We ended up there because the chap that ran it (think his name was Ben Butler) was the only one that could properly explain the then-new technology ADSL to us. Nearly everyone else misinformed us, like “you have to keep it alive by pinging otherwise it’ll disconnect” kind of thing.