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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.
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
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.
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
Wallace, Idaho

Pulaski Tunnel Trail

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.
Żagań, Poland

Stalag Luft III Prisoner Camp Museum

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.
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, Germany

Colditz Castle

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

Bourbon Tunnel

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.
games

Online Poker Players Are Exiled in Paradise

When will the party end for online poker's refugees?
Sarah Laskow April 25, 2017
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
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
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
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
animals

Found: One of Toronto’s Two Giant, Fugitive Rodents

Capybaras on the loose.
Sarah Laskow June 14, 2016
islands

Don’t Worry, Said Most Weather Reports in Fiji Before One of the Worst Cyclones Ever

How two Peace Corps volunteers narrowly escaped Cyclone Winston–an option that few Fijians had.
Tao Tao Holmes March 3, 2016