People on the net love to reveal secret rooms. Every now and then new story goes viral in which someone discovers secret room with all sorts of creepy implications. But usually these are stories about homeowners or renters who find mysterious places, and while they are a little creepy, they are not that unusual. What you may find more unusual is the number of famous places that also have secret places.
10. There is a secret room in the Medici Chapels where Michelangelo once lived.
If you are an art lover, head to Florence, Italy and you will be absolutely amazed by everything the city has to offer. You might even be drawn to the Medici Chapels in the Basilica of San Lorenzo.
Created by the great Michelangelo for the famous Medici family, they would live on throughout history as great tourist attractions, even before what happened in 1975. That same year, the museum director discovered a secret room under cabinet. Inside was what is believed to have been a secret room occupied by Michelangelo himself.
The walls were covered with sketches, some of them depicting famous works by artists, while others were completely unique. None of them were signed, so it is difficult to say with certainty that they were 100% his, but they were all done in his style and depicted real things that the man did. There is still debate in the art world.
It is believed that Michelangelo may have used the room as a shelter during the revolt against the Medici. The room is sometimes open to the public, but it is small and access can be limited.
9. There is a secret room in Lincoln's head on Mount Rushmore.
Mount Rushmore is one of America's most famous landmarks, but it's more than just a tribute to four long-dead presidents. Hidden deep in Abraham Lincoln's head is a secret vault of records.
The original purpose of the room was to warn future generations about the reason for Mount Rushmore and who carved it. And the sculptor Gutzon Borglum made a good point. Most of us don't know this man's name, just as we don't know who created many other important relics and works of art from our past.
Borglum imagined that the Bill of Rights and the Constitution could be kept in his archive. If you've ever seen the Nic Cage film " National Treasure 2" , some of the moments may seem familiar to you, as the plot revolves around this to some extent.
Planned room would be huge However, the government didn't want Borglum to waste time on the hidden rooms when the giant heads weren't even finished, so he never finished it. It wasn't until 1998 that the government finally decorated the room with porcelain plaques explaining the room and Borglum's work.
8. There is a secret apartment in the Eiffel Tower
Of all the world's famous landmarks, you'd think the Eiffel Tower would be the hardest to hide. After all, it appears to be nothing more than a metal frame that you can actually see through.
Despite the nature of the tower and its rather skeletal structure, there is still a secret apartment hidden inside the building. Situated just below the spire, Gustave Eiffel designed 1076 square foot space as your own apartment. It has an open balcony, oil paintings and perhaps the best view of the city. There was even a piano, which must have been something of a cannibal to climb 1,000 feet to the top, and a laboratory filled with cutting-edge (for the time) technology.
Eiffel himself was apparently notoriously secretive, and so few people were ever invited to visit even during his lifetime. This is despite the fact that many of the Parisian elite offered him money just to spend a night there.
These days you can access the apartment and see what it's like if you drop in for a visit. But don't be surprised if it's not as big as you think, as most of the space is taken up by the elevator and other technical components.
7. Some New York public libraries have secret rooms
In America more 116,000 libraries , which provide free reading opportunities. These are great places not only to find and enjoy books, but also to use resources like computers and printers. Most also offer numerous programs that range from adult literacy and ESL to career courses and educational courses. And in New York City, some libraries even had hidden apartments.
Earlierthe directors lived in the libraries Libraries, like many other buildings, were heated. coal , and someone had to keep the furnace running 24 hours a day. In some cases, this meant entire families secretly lived behind the stacks in full-fledged apartments.
The apartments were usually quite large, and they also had free access to the library outside of opening hours. Some had access to roof gardens. The apartments are no longer inhabited, as live-in caretakers are no longer needed. There are also far fewer of them, due to library closures or renovations, but as of 2017 there were still 13 in the city.
6. Benjamin Franklin's house had a secret room full of bodies.
Benjamin Franklin is known for many things. He was an inventor and gave the world bifocals and lightning-fast rides. He was a politician and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. And he was a man who lived in a house full of corpses . The latter is a little less known.
Franklin lived in a house in London for about 20 years as an ambassador. It was a four-storey townhouse, and as a building of obvious historical significance, people in the modern era were keen to preserve it and turn it into a museum. This meant some renovation, and in 1998 builders discovered a windowless room in the basement where a hole had been dug. And was sticking out of it femur .
Authorities excavated the site and found a staggering 1,200 human bones. It was estimated that there were between 10 and 15 different bodies, some of which were children.
There is evidence that they came from the same time as Franklin, but he was up to no good. He had a friend named William Hewson, who was secretly working as an anatomist at the time. Many of the bones were sawn or drilled as part of Hewson's medical research.
Conducting anatomical research was not entirely legal at the time, so Hewson had reason to do it secretly. Since Franklin was both a friend and a scientist, the house was a safe place to work.
5. There are hidden rooms in Disneyland and Disney World.
Disney World and Disneyland have their share of secrets that are hidden from the general public, including many secret rooms that can be found throughout the parks. One of the most notable is secret hotel room in Cinderella Castle. The room was intended for Walt Disney, but he died before it was completed and it sat unused for 40 years until it was renovated in 2006. It is designed to look like a real castle and has a 24-hour concierge . tiled mosaic floor with 24-karat gold tiles.
In Disneyland you can find hidden basketball court on the Matterhorn ride. Disney employees built it as a place to rest during breaks. There's also a secret hotel room called 21 Royal, which was also meant for Walt and his wife, but can now be yours for 15,000 US dollars overnight.
4. In the National Archaeological Museum in Naples there is a room that is actually called the "Secret Cabinet".
Back to Italy again, where they love a good secret room. This time in Naples, at the National Archaeological Museum, which houses a huge number of exhibits from Pompeii and Herculaneum, clearly lustful in nature.
The inhabitants of these ancient cities were not above R-rated art. But as more modern excavations began, the Victorian people were too modest for such things. So any art deemed too obscene was ordered locked away in Gabinetto Segreto , or the Secret Cabinet.
The secret cabinet was open to the gentlemen who paid a little more The exhibition featured various mosaics and sculptures of a sexual nature, some of which would even be considered questionable by modern standards.
3. The Greenbrier Hotel housed a congressional bunker.
If you're not familiar with the Greenbrier Resort, it's located in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia and has existed in one form or another since 1778. In more recent times, it was also home to a secret bunker designed to members of Congress in case of emergency.
Built during the Eisenhower era, the Butler could seat 535 people and took up square 112,544 square feet . It was built between 1958 and 1961, about 720 feet into a hillside. It had a power plant, three 25,000-gallon water tanks, 18 dormitories that could house more than 1,000 people, and a 25-ton blast door.
The bunker was ready for use for 30 years, and during that time, technology was constantly being improved to meet the demands of the times. Now it is a tourist site that you can visit if you are in the area.
2. There is a hidden fallout shelter on the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Brooklyn Bridge, one of the most famous landmarks in all of New York City, so famous that people regularly sold it to tourists, was built back in 1869. That doesn't mean people stopped working on it. However, there was actually a major and secret renovation during the Cold War, when a bunker was installed on the bridge that wasrediscovered only in 2006 .
Loaded with supplies dating from 1957 to 1962, it contained 352,000 high-calorie crackers, as well as barrels of water, medicine, bedding and more. The haul was discovered by New York City Department of Transportation workers during an inspection. All of the shipments were labeled as belonging to the department. civil defense , the Cold War-era version of FEMA.
The bunker was located somewhere in Manhattan's anchorage, but the exact location has not been disclosed. As for who built the shelter, that too remains a mystery.
1. The Colossus of Florence has several secret rooms.
We return to Florence to see another artistic marvel in the form of Apennine Colossus This incredible sculpture of a Renaissance man, standing 35 feet tall over a pond, could have been ripped straight out of The Lord of the Rings for the feelings it evokes. But it’s more than just a stunning and fantastic piece of art. It also hides a secret or two.
Inside the Colossus hidden grottoes and passages , which itself was a gift to the Duke's mistress in the 1500s. One of the rooms even has a fireplace that, when lit, causes the giant's nose to smoke. There's apparently room for an orchestra, too, and at one point, it had a working hydraulic system that pumped water out of the mouth of a fish the giant holds.
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