34 Secrets About Public Places That Your School Field Trip Didn’t Cover

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34 Secrets About Public Places That Your School Field Trip Didn’t Cover

Well, children, we were supposed to be on our way to the Island of the Dolls today, but not one of you got your permission slip signed by your parents. We guess none of them wanted you to experience hundreds of mutilated dolls possessed by a drowned girl! Pfft. Parents these days.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa contains an empty tube. The Tower of Pisa is actually a bell tower for the nearby cathedral, and there's literally nothing inside it. Aside from the ginormous bell, of course. CRACKED.COM

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The Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Italy. Built as a cemetery for monks, it is the largest collection of mummies in the world. When they outgrew the original cemetery, they exhumed the corpses and found they had been naturally mummified. (Relax, they stopped accepting bodies in 1880). CRACKED

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Les Catacombes de Paris. OSSEMENTS DES ANCIENS CIMETIÈRES DE LA TRINITE ET DE ST. LES (BOULEVARD SÉBASTOPOL) DEPOSES EN 1850 DANS 1. OSSUAIRE DE LOUEST ET TRANSFERT ES DANS LES CATACOMBES EN 7th 1859 The Catacombs of Paris is an underground cemetery with the skeletal remains of an estimated 6 million people. In 1810, skulls and bones were neatly stacked in this subterranean cavern that visitors can see today (Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 8pm). CRACKED

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Mt. Rushmore was designed by a white supremacist. Gutzon Borglum, the man that sculpted Mount Rushmore, was a racist who had ties to the Ku Klux Klan and was deeply involved in their politics. Не said things like, I would not trust an Indian, and referred to African Americans as a mongrel horde. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED.COM The Gibraltar Point Lighthouse is the site of Toronto's first unsolved murder. Centuries ago, the keeper of the lighthouse vanished with nothing left of him but his blood stains on the lighthouse's wooden steps. It was rumored that he'd been brutally dismembered. A century after his disappearance, his remains were found scattered around the lighthouse grounds.

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CRACKED.COM James Smithson is entombed in the Smithsonian. Secres la the shampry James Sellow who died at Sense of Society the N yeon In a crypt just inside the north entrance of the Smithsonian Castle lies the relocated remains of the institute's founding father, James Smithson. Не was a chemist who enjoyed studying things like human tears and snake venom.

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Underground tunnels criss-cross Los Angeles. They connect downtown LA's government buildings, and they're used for moving files securely. But they've also had other uses. For example, in the '50s and '60s, criminals were moved from jail to court through them. In 1960, a billion dollars of tax money were moved through them. CRACKED.COM

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The highest floor of the Empire State Building is reserved for a chosen few. The 103rd floor, which is so secret it's usually not listed, is only open to the rich and/or famous. It's a small observatory with 360-degree views. Almost no sounds reach it, so there's near-total silence. CRACKED.COM

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A luxury apartment sits at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Gustave Eiffel had it built for himself when the tower went up, and kept it secret for a long time. He'd get offered crazy sums for a night in it, but always said no. It didn't open to the public until 2015, 90 years after he died. CRACKED.COM

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