A Secret Chamber at Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore is one of the most iconic landmarks in the United States and is by far the biggest site of interest in South Dakota. Nestled among the Black Hills, it famously depicts the faces of four famous US presidents: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington, carved in a granite cliff, but did you know that there’s a secret chamber nestled beneath?
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The original sculptor of Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, planned to create a time capsule inside his masterpiece, allowing visitors to descend via an 800-foot stairwell and admire the capsule, hidden away behind Lincoln’s head. Well, the chamber was dug out and still exists, but the time capsule was never made. Instead, the sculptor died before the project was finished and the chamber was fitted with a titanium vault instead, housing key documents related to Rushmore’s construction.