The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B0CPKWTCJY | 2024 | 8 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 248 MB

A spellbinding tour, filled with stories, of some of the worlds most fascinating architectural mysteries. This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes listeners on a lyrically written tour of eighteen of the worlds most captivating architectural mysteries. Delve into both the secretive places themselves and the eccentric and obsessive minds that created them. Visit a chamber of skulls high in the Swiss Alps, a Japanese temple full of traps, a Parisian apartment locked and untouched since World War II, a Prohibition-era speakeasy in Washington, DC, and a spooky initiation well in Portugal built by a secret society. How far down can you climb before losing your nerve