There's a secret room inside Mount Rushmore that stores important US documents
But many Americans might not know the secret behind one of the country's most iconic political monuments.
Enter: The Hall of Records at Mount Rushmore.
Where the frontal lobe of Abraham Lincoln's brain would be, there is a secret room that contains the text of America's most important documents. It sounds like something out of "National Treasure" (or, more fittingly, "Richie Rich") but the Hall of Records is a legitimate historical repository.
Conceived in the 1930s by the monument's designer, Gutzon Borglum, the Hall was designed to be a vault for a selection of documents chronicling America's history.
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Unfortunately, Borglum died in 1941, so he never got to see that vision come to life. More than 50 years later, in 1998, monument officials revived the sculptor's dream of installing a record of the country's history inside the Hall.
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Sadly, the Hall is closed to the public (the half-ton slab probably already gave that away). The closest anyone can get is the ruin-like doorway, which recedes several feet into the mountain. It's nestled behind a rocky outcropping to the right of Lincoln's head.
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At least, as far as we know. Maybe Nicolas Cage knows something we don't.
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