Graff, author of Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. “For decades, you had conventioneers and conference-goers filing through the public spaces, never realizing they were actually sitting in the doomsday chambers of the House and Senate,” said Garrett M. While much of this intended wartime capital was hidden behind reinforced concrete walls, the resort’s public meeting spaces included some of the facilities that would have been used by lawmakers. Congress that included everything from a dentist’s office to a 400-seat cafeteria. When the Greenbrier resort undertook construction of a new conference center in 1958, the expansion project included a top-secret bunker for the U.S. government was hidden in plain sight at a mountain retreat 250 miles southwest of the capital city.

(Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images) The Greenbrier-White Sulphur Springs, West Virginiaįor decades the most ambitious Cold War hideout for the U.S. Congress and associated staff in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S.

A view of the West Tunnel Blast Door, which weighs 25 tons and serves as an entrance to a former government relocation facility codenamed “Project Greek Island.” This 112,000 square-foot shelter was constructed beneath the Greenbrier Resort’s West Virginia Wing, to serve as a relocation site for members of the U.S.

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