We spend countless hours looking at photos of famous landmarks. Tourist shots fill our social media feeds, and classic postcard views are burned into our memories. But these iconic places hold secrets that most cameras never capture. A small group of photographers and adventurers have managed to document these world-famous sites from entirely unexpected angles. Their images show hidden rooms, secret passageways, and surprising architectural details that most visitors never see. These rare photographs pull back the curtain on some of history's most photographed places and reveal a whole new side to landmarks we thought we knew.
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1. This is what the Oval Office looks like completely empty
2. There's a golf course right next to the Great Pyramid of Giza
3. The inside of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
4. Mount Everest from the window of a plane
5. This is what's behind a movie screen
6. A view of the Statue of Liberty's scalp from the torch
7. Did you know that the Great Sphinx of Giza has a tail?
8. This is what a completely empty airplane looks like
9. When a canal in Venice is completely drained. It's done to allow for cleaning
10. This is a glimpse of what lies 16 stories below New York City. This image captures the scene in 2013 during the construction of the East Side Access tunnel. The project has now been successfully completed.
11. There are four miles of tunnels 72 feet underneath Tokyo designed to prevent the city from flooding
12. A picture of a sunset on Mars
13. The US–Canada border in Idaho
14. The inside of the White House looked pretty different when it was being rebuilt in the late 1940s
15. This is what the inside of Big Ben looks like behind one of its clock faces
16. A unique view of the pyramids of Giza from a plane
