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The tourist attractions are like onions: Peel the layers and you could simply discover something you never expect you to find. Do not believe us? Well, and if we tell you that some of the world's most famous landmarks have secret spaces in them, many of them can actually visit. It's true! These hidden caves, basins and hidden apartments offer travelers a completely different perspective on the well-trodenel territory. (Not to mention, these are the perfect cache stains when thetourist crowds Get too overwhelming.) Continue reading to discover the surprising and unique hiding places in some of the world's most famous monuments.

Site: London, England

There is a lamppost of the London Trafalgar Square which is more than the eye. Secretly, it's actually a very small police station - the smallest in London, actually. According toTelegraphIt was installed in 1926 so that the police could be close to the events that occurred so often on the square. He even had a direct dial telephone to Scotland Yard back in the day. If you are neverthrough the pondYou can take a look at and take a look, but everything you will see, mops, because the station is now used as a cleaning cupboard.

Site: Paris, France

Have you ever fantasized on life in the Eiffel Tower? Well, your dreams could technically be a reality, see as there is an integrated secret apartment in the monument.

WhenGustave Eiffel Designed the tower, he understood a private apartment for himself at the top. When he died, he even left the place in furniture of the state of mint and everything. Today, the apartmentMannequins d'Eiffel houses andThomas Edison, who was one of the lucky ones who had to visit the house. Visitors can see the small space through a window with the purchase of a ticket at the top of the tower.

Site: Keystone, South Dakota

When it was built byGutzon Borglum, thisRoom behind the head of Abraham Lincoln was supposed to keep the most important documents and artifacts for American history, such as the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. And although the most important documents are located elsewhere today, the unfinished hall houses a repository of recordings that tell how and whyMount Rushmore has arrived at. However, you will have to take our floor for that because it is inaccessible to the public.

Site: New York, New York

One of New York's busiest train stations has tennis courts in a little known space called annex. Over the years, the region has seen a lot of renovations - itUsed to be a recording studio as well as an art gallery - and had several owners, includingPresident Donald Trump at one point. Currently, the space is known as the Vanderbilt Tennis Club and is open and accessible to the public.

Site: Washington DC.

Americans take their sports very seriously, so it is not surprising that Grand Central is not the only American history hiding a sports facility. In Washington, D.C., the US Supreme Court has a basketball court on its last floor where clerks, police officers, and other Supreme Court employees can pull hoops between the court sessions. The basketball court is nicknamed "the highest court of the country", seeing that it is located above the actual building room of the building. According toAtlas obscura, VIP who played here includeByron White andChief Justice William H. Rehnquist.

Site: New York, New York

When the city of the city of radio opened in 1932, Vaudeville producerSamuel Lionel "Roxy" Rotothafel Wanted his own apartment in the theater and so he had an exclusive art deco suite designed on the fifth floor. Today, the area is calledSuite of RoxyAnd it is reserved for the performers of the city of the city and the VIP participants. You can take a look by taking the tour of the stage or you can even rent it at heavy fees.

Site: Rome, Italy

When the Colosseum has been used as arena, it had a complete subterranian level called hypogeum. This was where the complex machines needed for special effects were stored, where wild animals were housed and where the Gladiator's facilities were. In addition, this level led to tunnels that connected the Coliseum with the buildings that surround it. Today you can access the hypgeum with a special ticket or with a guided business like walks, which offers aUnderground Coliseum Tower.

Site: New York, New York

Seven floors below the surface of the Frick collection of New York City is one of the city's most elegant bowling alleys and billiard rooms. It was built in 1914 when the space was beautiful steelHenry Clay Frick's Private mansion. The building is now a museum - and although theFrick Collection always houses bowling and billiards facilities, the public can not access it.

Site: Florence, Italy

TheCORRIDOR VASARI-Chorid behind an unmarked door on the first floor of the UFFIZI gallery-connects the Pitti Palace Museum. It was built in the 16th century byCosimo de 'Medici In honor of the marriage of his son. Today, the corridor always connects both buildings, but it is installed as a small separate museum from the famous Gallery of Uffizi. These walking houses above the ground act mainly from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as a special collection of self-portraits of artists. Although this is normally open to the public, it is currently closed for renovations until 2021.

Site: New York, New York

The library guards and their families lived in hidden apartments located above New York public libraries - and some of these accommodations are still. However, these secret pads are today cupboards or empty parts. Do you want to see one for yourself? According toTime Out New York, theRooms above the Washington Heights Library reopened an imminent reopening.

Site: New York, New York

After engineerJohn Roebling Designed the Brooklyn Bridge, it was able to finance it with the help of alcohol sellers. Since the anchors of the bridge were constantly cool and perfectly subtle, storing alcohol by giving them perfect meaning, and therefore the overlap of caves under the entrances of various alcohol vendors at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 19th century. Twentieth century. Today, the cellars remain primarily empty, althoughNPR Note that "the rare rare that have been allowed to visit the historic cellars ... say they can always feel the spirits who occupied once the extraordinary space".

Site: Venice, Italy

Most visitors are too severe by the main area of ​​St. Mark's basilica to reflect on the possibility that it can be even more glory below. And yet, under the presbytery and the lateral chapels are a much smaller crypt, the one that has been for centuries in the repository ofSt. Mark's body. It is also used as a place of burial for the Patriarchs of Venice. Visit the crypt is not as easy as seeing the rest of the cathedral, but some companies offer intimateHour visits which includes a stake inside.

Site: Washington DC.

UnderAbraham Lincoln Feet (and yours when you visit) is a cavernous subsoil of three floors of 43,800 square feet. When the construction started on the memorial in 1914, the engineers filled this area with columns to support the honest ABE and its marble throne, according toAtlas obscura.

The region has been forgotten until the renovations of the monument start in 1975, the main workers to find stalactites and an ecosystem of rodents and insects in this cellar. TheNational Park Service Want to open the Souccoft as a retail space and time storage for the centenary of the Lincoln Memorial in 2022. Dors, it remains inaccessible to the public.

Site: Orlando Florida

AtThe official disney world Map, there is a non-marked green blob in the middle of the lake of the bay. While this island is now closed, it was until 1999, a separate theme park calledIsland of discovery By focusing on birds and wildlife. Some people haveSnuck on to capture images descending park in recent years; In the videos, you can see a deceased snack bar, an old animal hospital that still has a procurement and a sad loading dock.

Site: Anaheim, California

Disneyland Has a secret space like his sister park in Florida. However, in California, you can actually access this hidden area - and it even serves alcohol. Yes, we talk aboutClub 33, Disneyland members' show to eat and drink. Unless you have dolled money to become a member, you are going to have trouble entering (or even discover what happens inside).

Although it's more well known these days, most people never even notice the club because the only marker the upscale restaurant is a "33" cryptic sign near its entrance.

Site: New York, New York

Everyone says the Empire State Building has 102 floors. However, the emblematic landmark of New York really has aSecret 103rd floor. There is a staircase on the 102nd floor that leads to another floor, even if it is usually only accessible by engineers and celebrities likeTaylor Swift. On this Sky-High floor, there is yet another staircase that leads to the "capsule" of the building of the empire State, and the more the infamous antenna.

Site: Aberdeenshire, Scotland

In 2013, archaeologists met aSecret medieval room And an old bathroom working on a Scotland's oldest castle conservation project. In a way, the room was perfectly preserved when it was found - even the original toilet seat was there!

Site: New York, New York

The emblematic ark of Washington Square Park is as functional as La Beautet. Believe it or not, the structure houses both a spiral staircase and a attic of 17 feet high and while this spacehas an incredible view of New York CityHe is currently inaccessible to the public.

Site: Niagara County, New York

Just down the hordes road of tourists gathered in Niagara Falls is a small hidden limestone cave engraved in the side of the niagara throat called theGrotto of evil spirits. As the name suggests, people believe that theCave is haunted; In 1763, a group of British soldiers was ambushed and killed by a Tribe Seneca on this site and their body was found floating in the Niagara River. Enter if you dare!

Site: New York, New York

Track 61 is a somewhat abandoned metro-northern station located under the city of Waldorf-Astoria in New York. Although there is a bunch ofAbandoned train stations In New York, making the track 61 different is the fact that it is placed under such a famous hotel and is accessible only by a door locked on the 49th street and a private elevator. According toAtlas obscura,President Franklin D. Roosevelt would use this track in the day to avoid the public's eye every time he went to New York. Today, there is an antique train car parked permanently in the train station and VIPS always supposed to suppose the station for stealth getaways.

Site: Washington DC.

We know you can enter the Washington monument - when it is open, at least - but did you know that you could leave the monument ... from the top? Well, workers can via atiny hidden door just below the tip of the structure. From there, they can grapple the monument to clean and repair it.

Site: Melbourne, Australia

On the third floor of Melbourne Flinders Street Station is a glorious ballroom. It is extremely exclusive and the few who have been able to enter because it is closed in 1985 could only do it with a secret gold ticket, according toNational Geographic. It was not always this exclusivity, though. Back in the day, the space was used as a conference and a room of activity, and in the 1950s and 1960s, it was converted into a ballroom for public dances.

Site: Emeryville, California

HostAndrew Gordon Explore the space of the Pixar studios when he fell on a "tiny door" with a key to the key. When he crossed the passage, which he came was a giant empty space that he turned intoLucky 7 living room, a place where the employees could go hanging up, catch a drink and relax. Apparently even the president of PixarSteve JobsUsed to love visiting space;In his biography of the Apple Founder,Walter Isaacson note that "jobs have brought important visitors there and forced them to sign the wall", includingMichael Eisner,Roy Disney, andTim Allen. Unfortunately, the only entrance to this secret room is via the Gordon office, then unless you know the animator or another Pixar employee, you probably will not have access.

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