Do n’t judge a record by its back . Beauty is only skin deep . There are countless aphorisms about looking below the control surface of thing , because you never know what you might find oneself — for instance , if you looked belowthe control surface of the Earth , you might notice helpless civilizations , undergroundempires , and/or oodles and spate of dinosaurs . Here are a dozen uncanny , fictionallocations lying just beneath your foot .
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1 ) The Center of theEarth , Journey to the Center of the worldly concern
The most iconic depiction of an surreptitious creation isobviously Jules Verne ’s 1864 novel , and the collide with 1959 movie ( and to a significantly lesser extent , the 2008 movie ) . There are somemajor differences between the original Word and the original movie versions — for representative , the flick includes avillain , the lost city of Atlantis , and a duck’s egg make Gertrude — but both realmsinclude an underground ocean , giant mushroom , a variety of dinosaurs and lightprovided by electrically charged petrol collected at the cap . In Verne’soriginal novel , there were also mastodons and 12 - foot tall humans , too , but then again , the picture show had a duck’s egg diagnose Gertrude , so it pretty much evens out .
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2 ) Sharu , The Mole People
A radical of semi - intrepid explorers discover a backwash ofancient albino Sumerians living underground in this 1956 Universal scifi movie . These Sumerians verbalise perfect English , and return the time by forcing thenative Mole Men to glean the mushrooms that feed them , to boot , they are led by ahigh priest of Ishtar played by the dude who would in short also bet Alfred the butler inthe 1960s Batman TV series . Because of the Sumerians ’ antipathy to weak , thewhite men and their mighty torch magnate are treated as Supreme Being until one ofthem gets obliterate by a Mole person , and the gigue is up . But the adventurer manageto convince the Mole Men to rise up against their albino masters , steal thesexy non - albino outcast who had been help them and get away . Of naturally , uponreaching the surface , an earthquake right away destroys the entrance to Sharuand kills the sexy non - albino castaway , but you win some , you fall behind some .
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3 ) Atlantis , Atlantis : The Lost Empire
The at sea city of Atlantis often end up inside the center ofthe Earth — avowedly , there ’s not a good deal of other place it could go — whichis why it come out multiple times on this lean . The Atlantis of this Disneymovie is an odd place where the inhabitants speak some sort of crazy ur - languagethat allow them to understand English , there ’s a charming crystal that force theplace and increases the Atlanteans ’ life , there are airships , and it has a jumbo golem lobster protecting it . When the bad guys seek to steal thecrystal at the same time there ’s a volcanic eructation , the crystallization merges with an Atlantean named Kida who make a force - field and save the day .
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4 ) Neo Atlantis , Nadia : The Secret of Blue Water
This underground urban center is somewhat much exactly like theAtlantis of Disney ’s Atlantis : The Lost Empire , except it ’s called Neo Atlantisand the Nadia anime TV series aired in Japan in 1990 , well before the Disneymovie premiered in 2001.Cough .
5 ) K’n - yan,“The Mound ”
H.P. Lovecraft loved his horrifying , subterranean worlds , tothe stage that when he edited various short stories ( which is to say , almostcompletely rewrote ) he add them in . The good example is probably K’n - yan , whichappeared in Zealia Bishop ’s “ The Mound , ” as well as in Hazel Heald ’s “ Out of the Aeons . ”According to Lovecraft , K’n - yan was located under Oklahoma ( the horror ! ) andinhabited by humanoid alien who had arrived in prehistorical times , but decidedto hang underground . They worship most of the Lovecraftian pantheon , make slavesout of the dead , enjoy orgies and anguish , and have several world power , liketelepathy and teleportation . Beneath K’n - yan , there ’s another undergroundcivilization of Serpent Men identify Yoth , and below that is N’kai , where theGreat Ole One Tsathoggua chills along with its spawn , destroying anyone stupidenough to tramp down there .
6 ) Seatopia , Godzilla Vs . Megalon
Not much is know about the secret realm of Seatopiaexcept 1 ) they care short togas , 2 ) they bask elaborate terpsichore figure , and 3 ) when they get annoy by all the Earth’s surface inhabitant ’ atomic testing , they institutionalize their giant cockroach monster Megalon to go sort things out . Theyalso have access to a surprising routine of thugs on the major planet ’s surface for somereason , and they also do n’t mind asking aliens from Nebula M to ship theirgiant goliath Gigan for a team - up with Megalon , forcing the robot Jet Jaguar tocontact Godzilla for assist . After an epic tag - team conflict that includesGodzilla perform a flying drop - kick on Megalon not once but twice , the Seatopians aredefeated and humanness continue destroying the environment with nucleartesting . Yay !
7 ) Pellucidar , At the Earth ’s center
What Jules Verne create in Journey to the Center of the Earth , Edgar Rice Burroughs more or lessperfected in his many Pellucidar novel . The world is hollow , and Pelluicaderis the world that covers the integrality of the inside of the sphere , lit by itsown mini - sun right hand in the center ( which also has a mini - synodic month ) . There aredinosaurs , muddled mammoths , giant ants , and 10 different races living there , including lizard men , ape men , bison men , and even pterodon human beings . Four of these10 races are more than happy to exhaust people , so if you have program to travel toPellucidar , attempt to wear your least appetising kit .
- Fraggle Rock
The nominal underground cavern complex of the darling JimHenson show is in reality kind of troubling if you kibosh to think about it . Firstof all , the full ecosystem seems to be wholly dependant on radishes , as 1)that ’s what Fraggles eats , it ’s what the Doozers habituate to build with ( and theFraggles also run through ) and the Gorgs postulate it to make anti - vanishing cream to preventthem from go away ( and which the Fraggles steal ) . More over , Fraggle Rockis colligate both to the existent world and wherever the hell the Gorgs live , indicating that it may be some sort of inter - dimensional portal . And there areplenty of other creatures living in these caves , including dragons , monstersand more . The natural selection pace of Fraggles must be extremely low , given the manythreats they face and their complete lack of survival accomplishment . But sincethey’re basically the freeloader of the Hades , this is probably fine .
9 ) Subterranea , Marvel funnies
There ’s an entire humankind below the surface of Marvel Comics’earth , and it is jam - packed with things : Mole Men . Lava Men . Deviants ( an eviloff - shoot of the Eternals , and not named such because of their sexual practices . believably ) . Moloids . Ghouls . Lizard Men ( not to be confused with the Lizard Menof the Savage Land ) . There ’s also an malefic immortal popish scientist namedTyrannus who occasionally pops up to menace the airfoil worldly concern and sleep withthe Hulk ’s gal pal Betty Ross ( do n’t ask ) .
10 ) Underland , The Underland Chronicles
Before she wrote TheHunger Games trilogy , Suzanne Collins write the Underland Chronicles , a five - book serial about a young boy namedGregor who come across a giant underground realm full of uncounted animals , bug , and other assorted creature , all giant , all translucent , all able-bodied to speakEnglish , and all with really , really goofy names ( e.g. , lizards are called“Hissers ” and jetty are called “ Diggers ” ) . Gregor is Underland ’s fabled “ Warrior,”who cease up fighting a elephantine Gnawer ( rat ) named Bane , falling in beloved with aprincess , and more . Bane the Gnawer is quite the tough hombre , concord to thismesmerizing verbal description fromWikipedia : “ Inthe fourth Word of God , Gregor and the Marks of Secret , the Bane duplicate AdolfHitler in the mother wit that they are both magnetic verbalizer who are enwrapped ongenocide ; for Hitler it was Jews and for The Bane it was nibbler ( [ i.e. , mouse ] . ”
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11 ) Dinosaur Empire , Getter Robo
The dinosaurs did n’t go extinct , they just moved undergroundin this classic ’ 70s giant robot anime . They evolved to fill out a fullspectrum of dinosaur - to - homo transformation , as you could see in this clip , butone thing they all have in uncouth is that they want the open world back , andthey require it sooner rather than after . They even have giant “ mechasaurses ” tohelp accomplish this task , which can endure up to magma but not , unfortunately , the giant automaton Getter Robo , which somewhat much destroys their integral empire .
12 ) Atlantis , Alien from L.A.
Supermodel Kathy Ireland and her incredibly squeaky voice “ star”in this extremely goofy take on Journey to the Center of the Earth . Whilesearching for her pa in an Egyptian temple , Kathy fall through a trap door and land in the lost city of Atlantis , which looks like a low - budget versionof the urban center from Brazil but dwell inexplicably by Australians . TheAtlantean government is very upset that this “ foreign ” is running around tellingpeople about the being of the aerofoil human race , and chase after her while she triesto place her pa ( well , while a miner named Gus tries to locate her pappa , whileleading the baffled Kathy around ) . Yet the most ludicrous part of this movie , once boast on MST3 K , is thatsupermodel Kathy Irelands purportedly “ transform ” from being monstrously ugly(i.e . , wearing glasses and slack clothes ) to being beautiful and ravishing(i.e . , taking off her glasses , washing her face , and break a two-piece ) over thecourse of the film .
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