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The Indecent Little Man of St James Church

The Indecent Little Man on the Church of St. James

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

The walls hid these giant wheels.

secret passages

Found: Secret Sliding Doors Hidden in a Church’s Walls

A renovation revealed the pulley system meant to move them.

Sarah Laskow November 29, 2016

Naours

Cité souterraine de Naours (Underground City of Naours)

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

Graceful remnants of ancient cedar trunk

Uozu-shi, Japan

Buried Forest Museum

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

A mirrored bunker at Leffrinckoucke's Fort des Dunes.

What to Do With a Cold War-Era Bunker

Seven nuclear bunkers transformed as expressions of creativity.

Molly McBride Jacobson November 3, 2016

The back bedroom.

New York, New York

Secret Apartment in the Fort Washington Library

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

The left-hand property (No. 22) is inhabited, but the right-hand one (No. 23) is only a façade.

London, England

Leinster Gardens False Facades

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

On the third floor of the Fort Washington Library.

Inside the New York Public Library's Last, Secret Apartments

There are just 13 left.

Sarah Laskow October 7, 2016

Mystery Soda Machine

9 Amazing Things Disguised as Boring Things

Look twice—these seemingly mundane objects are hiding something.

Molly McBride Jacobson September 29, 2016

Spider monkeys from a fore-edge painting on The Natural History of Monkeys (1838)

Lovely Hidden Paintings Adorned the Edges of Historic Books

Fore-edge paintings. Just look at them!

Eric Grundhauser September 29, 2016

You Can Follow a Hidden Stream Beneath Indianapolis—If You Know Where to Look

Pogue's Run makes an appearance in the best-selling novel 'Underground Airlines.'

Sarah Laskow September 20, 2016

Constructing the nuclear reactor.

Camp Century (Project Iceworm)

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

Admiring trees in Sequoia National Park, California.

20 Hidden Spots Inside America’s National Parks and Forests

Celebrate over a century of national parks by exploring these secret places.

Molly McBride Jacobson May 8, 2025

Found: A 300-Year Old Shoe Meant To Ward Off Evil Spirits

It was a men's size 6, and they put it right back where they found it.

Eric Grundhauser August 19, 2016

Found: A Secret Bunker Beneath an Indian Governor's Mansion

The entrance was hidden behind a false wall.

Eric Grundhauser August 17, 2016

Red Seabeach

The Most Inaccessible Places in the World People Desperately Want To Visit

We looked in the Atlas for places where the most people marked "want go to," but have no actual visitors—yet.

Meg Neal August 15, 2016

Bricked up entrance to Clinton Hall detail.

New York, New York

The Forgotten Entrance to Clinton Hall

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

This laundromat is more than it seems.

Brooklyn, New York

Sunshine Laundromat

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.