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Discover the mad science of a mad-scientist escape room.
games

World-Competitive Escape Rooms Are Darker, Scarier, and More Scientific

Are you an explorer or a killer?
Jennifer Billock April 25, 2024
islands

Podcast: Jacko Steps

A historic hiding place used by people escaping enslavement is a testament to a struggle for freedom.
The Podcast Team August 3, 2023
Plaque has been refurbished
New York, New York

Bryant Park Escape Hatch

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.
Many escape tunnels were dug under the Berlin Wall in the Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood, including the famous Tunnel 57.
tunnels

Remembering a Daring Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

Nearly 60 years after he fled East Berlin, Andreas Springer shares a story of risk, freedom, and the deepest tunnel beneath the Cold War's most infamous border.
Jordan Todorov September 29, 2021
The Grand Hotel
Taipei City, Taiwan

Grand Hotel Tunnel

Air-raid tunnels hidden beneath this opulent hotel provided shelter and an escape route—and one of the world's longest slides.
Welcome to Lucin, Utah: population 1.
ghost towns

Ivo Zdarsky Is Waiting Out the End Times in His Own Utah Ghost Town

The Iron Curtain escapee, DIY aviator, and thriving entrepreneur is ready for anything.
Oliver Whang September 16, 2020
Restored tunnel entrance.
Wallace, Idaho

Pulaski Tunnel Trail

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.
Harry tunnel at Stalag Luft III.
Żagań, Poland

Stalag Luft III Prisoner Camp Museum

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.
Some of the POWs at Stalag Luft III, from Vivian Phillips's journal.
prisons

For Sale: A POW Journal Documenting World War II's 'Great Escape'

A look inside the mind of a legendary plot.
Matthew Taub March 11, 2019
Colditz Castle
Colditz, Germany

Colditz Castle

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.
Tunnel and vintage cars.
Naples, Italy

Bourbon Tunnel

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.
The life of a poker-playing expat can be sweet—but how sustainable is it?
games

Online Poker Players Are Exiled in Paradise

When will the party end for online poker's refugees?
Sarah Laskow April 25, 2017
Ido Michaeli's "Black Panther Got Loose From the Bronx Zoo."
art

A 1902 Panther Escape Becomes Political

Ido Michaeli's new tapestry, "Black Panther Got Loose From the Bronx Zoo," brings allegory to a zoo breakout.
Cara Giaimo February 9, 2017
Those are some nice big scales.
animals

Found: A Gecko That Loses Its Giant Scales if It Is So Much as Touched

Do not grab this gecko.
Sarah Laskow February 7, 2017
A "Mark III" military escape kit, with a silk map peeking out.
maps

How Millions Of Secret Silk Maps Helped POWs Escape Their Captors in WWII

The ingenious maps played a role in some 750 successful escapes.
Cara Giaimo December 20, 2016
Part of the tunnel network.
tunnels

Found, Possibly: Hidden Tunnels That Were Escape Routes From Gay Bars in San Francisco

No one has actually seen them, though.
Sarah Laskow November 18, 2016
games

Inside the Budapest Escape Room That Started the Worldwide Craze

Why Hungarians are so good at puzzles—from Houdini and Rubik's Cubes to escape rooms.
Jennifer Walker August 26, 2016
zoos

Found: Fugitive Red Panda That Spent 242 Days on the Lam

The last of three escapees is brought to heel.
Sarah Laskow August 5, 2016