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Hidden passages and secret rooms have been built in castles and houses owned by heads of state, the wealthy, criminals, and abolitionists associated with the American Underground Railroad. They have helped besieged rulers escape attackers, including Pope Alexander VI in 1494, Pope Clement VII in 1527 and Marie Antoinette in 1789.
Today, archaeologists use modern technology to recover treasure and excavate the underground legacy of the Third Reich. Gates joins them, first finding answers in Germany, identifying gold in a Nazi train hidden inside a mountain in Poland. Then, they explore an underground facility in Austria, to a top-secret lab to build a war machine.
With 32 miles of caves and underground passageways, ... Indianapolis City Market sits atop a hidden network of brick catacombs. The space was originally part of Tomlinson Hall, a large building ...
The Underground Eiger is a made-for-television documentary that was released in 1979. It details a world record-breaking cave dive of 6,000 ft (1,800 m) made by Geoff Yeadon and Oliver Statham from West Kingsdale Master Cave, in North Yorkshire, England to Keld Head. An estimated 20 million viewers watched its television debut.
There’s also a personal ATM, movie theater, doctor’s office and, arguably the most fascinating of all, an underground tunnel system that was designed for easy, stealthy passage for royals to ...
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The UX (short for Urban eXperiment) is an underground organization of Urban explorers that improves hidden corners of Paris.Their work includes restoring the Panthéon clock, [1] building a cinema — complete with a bar and a restaurant — in a section of the Paris Catacombs underneath the Trocadéro, restoring medieval crypts, and staging plays and readings in monuments after dark.
For the most part, the replies contained proposals of hypothetical scenarios in which the secret passageway would turn out to be a huge mistake. “Imagine going to get some water at like 2 am and ...