Secret dream

When I was a kid I used to love playing with my lego. Building things like cars, trucks and houses. Especially the housebuilding I enjoyed, incorporating secret passages, hidden doors, walls that would slide aside when you would push a brick (obviously that would happen in my head - in real life I would pick up the wall, let the lego people walk through and put the wall back in place).
I probably got intrigued by all these hidden passages and secret rooms by reading the books of the Famous Five by Enid Blyton (and the story of Anne Frank).

Nowadays I can't help myself when I walk into a room with wooden panelling. I have to knock on the panels to try and see if any of them sounds different; if any of them will slide away and uncover a secret.

We recently moved into a new house where downstairs the room is basically divided in two levels. At the back it's a step up so to speak. Yes, I have tried to find a hidden basement...

One of my aims in life is to get a reasonable sized house with a reasonable sized garden. In the house I want to have a library with all my books, where I can have a chess table and where I secretly can retire and drink a glass of whisky. Obviously the room will be hidden from plain sight...

So if you will ever visit us when we've got that house and you can't find me...look for the wooden panelling!

And how about this in the garden?

What intrigued you in your childhood and has stayed with you your whole life?