June 2009 – Invisible Themepark

Duress Code at Nike Missile Launching Area

Duress code. Yes, it’s a real term and it means “panic code,” or a code that you give instead of your “real” […]

I am reading an excellent book called Iron Coffins, by Commander Herbert A. Werner, who served on five German u-boats between 1941 […]

This is a superb cutaway drawing of an Astute class submarine–British Royal Navy nuclear fleet submarines. Close-Up: Towards the Stern 70 […]

Legend has it that there is a secret basketball court located inside that most famous fake mountain located in the Los Angeles […]

The true face of the James Bond series, at least throughout the Sixties and Seventies, isn’t Sean Connery. It’s a German-born set […]

There’s a good overview in an October 5, 2006 New York Times article about ordinary homeowners who add secret rooms and hidden […]

In an April 5, 1982 TIME magazine article, it was mentioned that a fake White House and Blair House (the little auxiliary […]

Let’s say right off the bat that it’s not the “Matterhorn.” Official term for it was “Matterhorn Bobsleds, because the included roller […]

A great airplane cutaway from Fortune Magazine 1936 (Large Size Image): The revolutionary fact about the Martin is that more than half […]