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Hidden

Entry to the crypt.

Salamanca, Spain

Cave of Salamanca

A hidden medieval crypt where a famous legend says the devil used to teach black magic.

Paris Space Invaders

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

Pixie Woods entrance.

Stockton, California

Pixie Woods

This hidden amusement park is a magical escape for kids and kids-at-heart.

It's not clear whether these landscapes are real or imagined.

Found: Very Old Paintings on the Fancy Vault Doors of Wyoming’s Capitol Building

Rugged mountains and peaceful streams were hidden under layers of brown paint.

Jessica Leigh Hester July 8, 2019

Kaltbach, Switzerland

Kaltbach Cave

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

The food is arranged on steam tables behind the counter.

Bronx, New York

Nano Billiards Cafe

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

Llotja de Sant Jordi

This exhibition space designed to look like the skeleton of a whale is hidden underground.

The front cover of the Bible, inscribed with the dedication to Lincoln.

This Lincoln Bible Has Been Hiding for 150 Years

Since 1872, it's been in the custody of a Lincoln-family friend and his descendants.

Matthew Taub June 20, 2019

Inside the bunker.

Parque el Capricho Bunker

A subterranean relic of the Spanish Civil War hides below this picturesque park.

View of the crypt of the old convent.

Convent of the Holy Spirit Crypts

Remains of the lost church hide beneath this Spanish Parliament building.

Dunbar's Close.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Dunbar's Close

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

Ellsworth, Maine

Finn's Irish Pub

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

Brooklyn, New York

Calvert Vaux Cove

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

Queens, New York

Lhasa Fast Food

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

World’s Longest Cuban Cigar

The enormous smoke hides within a little known, semi-secret exhibit inside Havana’s Morro Castle Historic Park.

The bar counter is set on a filing cabinet.

New York, New York

Central Filing Bar

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

George Street entrance to the Guardian Telephone Exchange.

Manchester, England

Guardian Telephone Exchange Tunnels

This nondescript building hides an entrance to an underground nuclear tunnel system.

Babe Ruth cursed the Red Sox, but he spelled luck for Ellen Kelly.

Sold: A Vintage Babe Ruth Card Found in a Piano

It went to the tune of $130,000.

Matthew Taub April 29, 2019