I Am Sure We Have All Heard Of China's Forbidden City,

but what I had not heard of was it's secret garden,

because, well it was a secret, but after years of restoration it will in the future be open again, 

built in the 15th Century, the Forbidden City was a center of power for hundreds of years, a vast and sprawling complex of residential, cultural and political spaces, the Secret Garden within its walls was shut off from view after the last emperor was deposed,

current conservation efforts are underway, aimed at making the space historically accurate down to the last detail, the Secret Garden has been largely untouched for hundreds of years, closed off and left theoretically intact but also subject to decay, the first stage of the project was completed in 2008, and the final phases are scheduled to finish by 2020, at which time visitors will be able to enter once more, who would have thought that the garden was there and lay untouched for so long?