Not everything is as it seems, a principle especially true when it comes to exclusive clubs and secret government facilities.
Here are 10 places that might look normal on the outside, but aren't what they seem given a closer look.
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Boeing Factory, Seattle
During World War II, Boeing decided to disguise one of its Seattle factories by constructing an entire fake town on top of it. The results are both surprisingly good and bad.
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Mount Weather, Virginia
Mount Weather is the center of operations for Fema and houses the FEMA National Radio System, allowing the president to access the Emergency Alert System. It is also a relocation site for high ranking officials in the case of a catastrophic natural or nuclear disaster. Its location was unknown until TWA Flight 514 crashed into Mount Weather in 1974.
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Track 61
This out of the way track built to serve Grand Central terminal's power station and heating plant lies right underneath the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. That made it a perfect secret track to move President Franklin D. Roosevelt to and from the hotel.
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Brooklyn Heights Ventilation Building, New York
While posing as a normal apartment building, 58 Joralemon Street is actually owned by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, is gutted on the inside, and acts as a massive vent for subway systems.
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Cheyenne Mountain Complex, Colorado
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is a United States Space Force installation and defensive bunker in El Paso County, Colorado. The mountain was excavated for a command center during the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and it now houses the advanced North American Aerospace Defense Command, (NORAD).
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Greenbrier Resort, West Virginia
Normally a fancy hotel, the American government established a “secret emergency relocation center” for congress in an underground bunker beneath the grounds. The bunker remained secret and stocked for 30 years.
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Raven Rock Mountain Complex, Pennsylvania
Also known as Site R and The Rock, Raven Rock Mountain Complex is an extensive bunker complex and has been called an "underground Pentagon.”
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Camp Century, Greenland
It took until the '90s for photos to leak from this American Cold War base in Greenland. Thought by the public to be a simple research station, Project Iceworm aimed to build a gargantuan web of missile launch sites just under the ice.
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Mount Yamantau, Russia
It looks like a real mountain and it is a real mountain. But underneath also lies a Russian military base and bunker system.
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Disneyland, Club 33
This seemingly normal door in Disneyland actually leads into the brand’s most exclusive club.
