These Landmarks Hide Secrets Guides Won’t Tell You About

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Get ready to uncover the hidden side of the world’s most famous landmarks! This video spills the beans on secrets tour guides conveniently skip over. Did you know there’s a secret apartment in the Eiffel Tower? Or that Mount Rushmore has a hidden vault with historical documents? From underground tunnels to mysterious symbols, these landmarks are hiding way more than meets the eye. If you love juicy secrets and unexpected surprises, this is a must-watch! Prepare to see these iconic spots in a whole new light.  Credit: Rick88888888 / YouTube Jack The Ripper Tour / YouTube Discovery UK / YouTube Josephovych / YouTube HISTORY / YouTube Animation is created by Bright Side.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/   Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV   Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Telegram: https://t.me/bright_side_official   Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.

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00:00If everything had gone according to the original plan, you wouldn't recognize the Washington

00:05Monument today.

00:07The designer, Robert Mills, wanted to create a temple-like building with 30 tall stone

00:12columns and statues of important people from American history.

00:17There would have also been a statue of George Washington riding a horse and a 600-foot tall

00:22Egyptian-style obelisk in the middle.

00:26In 1848, they placed the first stone of the monument in a big ceremony with thousands

00:31of people.

00:33Abraham Lincoln also was there, although he was not yet famous.

00:37They started building, but by 1854, they ran out of money when the monument was only 150

00:43feet tall.

00:44Finally, 22 years later, President Ulysses Grant gave the project federal money to finish

00:51the monument.

00:52By then, tastes had changed, and they decided not to build the temple part of the base.

00:57Since the project had stopped for so long, the stone colors couldn't match perfectly.

01:02That's why the bottom of the monument is lighter than the top.

01:05When it was finished, the Washington Monument was the tallest structure in the world.

01:10But five years later, the Eiffel Tower was built, and the monument had to give away the

01:14champion's title.

01:17Years before the JFK Airport started functioning, the Empire State Building was supposed to

01:21serve as one.

01:23Yep, the iconic New York's landmark antenna wasn't designed for King Kong to climb it,

01:28but as a mooring mast for giant airships.

01:31The leader of a group of investors erecting the building, Alfred E. Smith, imagined that

01:36passengers would walk down a ramp and be out on the streets of New York just seven minutes

01:41later.

01:42But, the man in charge of a famous airship, called the Graf Zeppelin, didn't think this

01:47idea would work out.

01:49He said that landing a dirigible was very difficult and needed lots of workers on the

01:54ground to help, plus long ropes to tie the airship down.

01:58A dirigible tried to dock at the Empire State Building only once in history, in September

02:031931.

02:05The pilot had to carefully steer the airship around the top of the building for three minutes.

02:10The winds were really strong, blowing at 40 miles per hour, which made it really tricky.

02:16Traffic in the streets below stopped for over half an hour as people watched the airship

02:20trying to land.

02:23Mount Fuji has become one of the symbols of Japan as a mountain peak, but it's actually

02:28formed by three different peaks.

02:32There's a legend that says Mount Fuji was created in one night by an earthquake in 286

02:37before the Common Era, but geologists believe it's much older.

02:42The first of the peaks began developing about 700,000 years ago.

02:47Two old mountains are part of Fuji's foundation.

02:50About 100,000 years ago, a new part grew on top of these.

02:55The volcano we see today started forming 11,000 to 8,000 years ago.

03:00Compared to other volcanoes, it is still considered pretty young and active, although the last

03:05time it erupted was over 300 years ago.

03:08Whenever there's a serious earthquake in the area, there's a risk it will erupt again.

03:14Thousands of people still climb it every year.

03:18You could technically live inside the Eiffel Tower if you really wanted to.

03:22Gustav Eiffel designed the tower to feature a private apartment for himself right at the

03:27top of the construction.

03:30He left the place all neat and tidy with warm wallpaper, soft chintzes, wooden cabinets,

03:35and even a grand piano.

03:38These days, the only tenants of the apartment are two mannequins, that of Eiffel himself

03:43and of Thomas Edison.

03:45The famous inventor was a frequent guest in the apartment.

03:49If you buy a ticket to the top of the tower, you can get a sneak peek of the apartment

03:53through a window as a bonus.

03:56The Statue of Liberty also has a hidden room.

04:00It's in the torch.

04:01This part of the statue is 29 feet long and is made of copper.

04:05It sits on a steel framework that was designed by Gustav Eiffel.

04:09Yes, the same person who created the Eiffel Tower.

04:12Unfortunately, you can't visit the torch as a tourist ever since it was completely

04:17closed back in 1916.

04:20But they placed a camera there in 2011 to allow people to enjoy live streaming of the

04:25panoramic view from the torch.

04:29If you ever pass through Trafalgar Square, you'll surely miss London's smallest police

04:34station since it's hidden beneath a lamppost inside an ornamental light fitting.

04:40The reason why it was placed there back in the 1920s was to let police officers be close

04:45to public rallies.

04:47They happened quite a lot in that area.

04:49Some even said it used to have a direct phone line to Scotland Yard.

04:54It's now used as a cleaning station, so there isn't much to see there apart from some mops.

05:00It took 14 years to finish the huge profiles of four American presidents, George Washington,

05:07Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, into the southeastern face of Mount

05:13Rushmore.

05:14If current records are true, there's an incomplete secret room behind Abraham Lincoln's head.

05:20It was meant to become the Hall of Records open for visitors.

05:24It would keep important artifacts and documents of American history like the Declaration of

05:29Independence and the Constitution.

05:31A year into the construction, the authorities decided it was more important to finish the

05:36president's profiles, so they cut funding for the project.

05:40So the secret room was never finished, and visitors to Mount Rushmore can't see it.

05:46The Pasetto di Borgio is a special hidden walkway that connects the Vatican City to

05:51a nearby fortress called Castel Sant'Angelo.

05:55It's around half a mile long and was built in the 13th century.

05:59It was used by popes to escape from the Vatican when they were in danger, and it was used

06:03this way at least twice in history.

06:06A statue of Leonardo da Vinci located at Rome's Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci Airport was first

06:13unveiled back in 1960.

06:16During a recent renovation, one of the workers made a mysterious discovery during this process.

06:22He found a small hole somewhere in the middle of the statue, at a height of about 30 feet.

06:27After it was carefully opened, they found two parchments inside.

06:31The first document, written in classical Latin, told the history of the area that now houses

06:36the airport.

06:38The other one had a list of people who attended the inauguration of the statue.

06:43There is a huge network of catacombs under Paris, stretching for around 174 miles.

06:50It's one of the largest grave sites in the world, and brave tourists are allowed to visit

06:54only a small section of it.

06:56But some people managed to get into the restricted passages to throw picnics and parties, and

07:01even start businesses there.

07:04Businesses like a fully functioning movie theater with an underground restaurant and

07:08bar.

07:09The law enforcement officers who found it believe it must have been built by some secret

07:14society.

07:16Whoever arranged it was trying to hide the entrance, making it look like a construction

07:20site.

07:21A motion sensor would set off a video camera, recording anyone who tried to sneak in.

07:26Then a sound of a barking dog would play, hoping to scare off intruders.

07:32Those who weren't scared away would get into an underground theater with rows of seats

07:36carved into the rock, a big movie screen, and a projector just like in a regular movie

07:41theater.

07:42The experts were surprised that the electricity worked so well underground to power it all,

07:47so a team came back to check it out.

07:50But when they returned, everything had been removed.

07:53The electricity lines were cut, and the items were gone.

07:56All that was left was a note saying, do not try to find us.

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