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* The Wildfire facility in ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]''. The only entrance is the elevator shed, and the facility topside ''is'' what it's disguised as - a wheat modifying facility.
* Willy Wonka's crazy factory in ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' is mostly underground. The book contains an explicit explanation of this by Wonka, where he tells everyone that he decided to expand his factory by tunnelling downward and outward so that he could basically expand indefinitely without ever having to buy any more land or pay any rent to the property owners most of his factory is under. This would, of course, be all kinds of illegal in real life, but Wonka doesn't care.
* A similar rationale obtains for the enormous set of underground tunnels built by the deep-down dwarfs in Ankh-Morpork in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' novels. By digging under the city, they can create their own dwarfs-only authentic dwarf mine under the city, unbeholden to city law or city rents. After the events of the book ''[[Thud!]]'', the deep-downers are thoroughly discredited and Lord Vetinari appropriates their delve for the city government. (It is heavily implied that these tunnels will form the basis of a future Ankh-Morpork subway system.)
** And the dwarfs have better legal standing than Wonka, considering that on parts of the Disc that dwarfs normally live, such as the Ramtops and Überwald, dwarf-law does cover the underground and is entirely separate from surface law. This just isn't true on the Sto Plains.
** The bulk of Dwarf civilization away from Ankh-Morpork is also mostly underground. There are huge cities.
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** ''Fallout 2'' had the Sierra Army Depot and the Hubologist base. The Brotherhood bunkers in the Den, NCR and San Francisco might also count.
** ''Fallout 3'' had Raven Rock and the Rockland comm. facility.
** ''Fallout 4'' had The Institute, an underground base serving as the HQ of the organization of the same name, and the only way to enter or exit is by teleporting (“relaying”).
** ''Fallout Tactics'' had the Brotherhood bunkers and Vault 0 which was simply the Cheyenne Mountain Complex coverted into an even larger facility.
* ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|F.E.A.R.]]'s'' Armacham Technology Corporation established the main facility for the Origin Project in an old military-industrial complex, and built the entire facility deep underground. Emphasis placed on the past tense, what with the [[Earthshattering Kaboom|explosive ending]] of the first game.
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== Real Life ==
* Underground command-and-control centers started getting popular sometime after [[World War I]], and much more so after nuclear weapons and ICBMs. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150903044739/http://www.greenbrier.com/site/bunker.aspx Greenbrier Resort] was the site of a US Congressional command center for 30 years, until [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/july/25/brier1.htm a Washington Post reporter exposed its existence in 1992.] Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, is quite famous as the "brain" of [[wikipedia:NORAD|NORAD]] (NORth-american Air Defense), SAC (Strategic Air Command, bombers and land-based ICBMs) and the US Space Command (more to do with satellites, though). The latter two are now defunct, absorbed into other organisations. NORAD is now based at Peterson Air Force Base (a conventional above-ground air force base nearby), but keeps Cheyenne Mountain on warm standby.
** The famous [[wikipedia:White House Situation Room|Situation Room]] (yes, it really does exist) underneath the West Wing of the White House. Yes, this is where the President and his cabinet meet to make life-or-death decisions. No, it is not full of beeping computers.
** Russia, ex-Soviet Union, undoubtedly has its own, but locations are disputed.
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** [[Conspiracy Theorist]]s [[Epileptic Trees|speculate]] about the existence of DUMB, or Deep Underground Military Base. It doesn't sound any more sinister than your regular well-protected military base, except that it's supposedly run by your favorite conspiracy ([[The Illuminati]] and [[The Reptilians]] being popular choice) and people are abducted and carried there for unspeakable purposes.
* Željava Air Base in former Yugoslavia is the world's largest underground ''Air Base''. While they still have overground runways, everything else is underground and has enough food, fuel and ammo to survive 30 days without outside intervention. It has been, alas, demolished.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110119221743/http://www.news.com.au/features/wikileaks/inside-wikileaks-founder-julian-assanges-lair/story-fn79cf6x-1225968685673 Julian Assange's Wikileaks facility in Stockholm.]
** It's just a web host. It doesn't belong to Assange.
* It happens in private as well. In 2005, Fred Strunk was sentenced to 18 years for running an elaborate [https://web.archive.org/web/20131102163222/http://sparkreport.net/2009/03/the-full-story-behind-the-great-tennessee-pot-cave/ pot growing operation] in a cave in Tennessee.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwlATf9xse4 This datacentre in Sweden], located in a cold war era nuclear bunker.
* In London, the [https://
* The North Korean military has a lot of bases created underground, some hollowed out from mountains to protect their equipment from bombardment in a future conflict involving South Korean and American bombing raids. The North Korean military also had several underground tunnels built so their troops could surprise-invade South Korea when the time is right.
* Muammar Gaddafi, the former dictator of Libya, had a huge underground base hidden under Tripoli. Among other things, it contained an entire functioning hospital and stockpiles of food large enough for an entire city. It also had tunnels big enough to drive tanks through.
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