This table, featured on Antiques For Todays Lifestyle blog, has a top that pivots to the side to reveal a secret compartment.

Kagen Schaefer created this Pipe Organ Desk. The notes are played by closing drawers on the back side. Each drawer pushes air through the pipes and plays a note. There is an pneumatic logic board that remembers the order of ...

This Lotus Box from Kagen Schaefer has several concentric circles of inlaid wood on top. When the rings are turned to the correct design, secret compartment drawers can be opened.

This Lotus Table by Kagen Schaefer has 10 concentric rings of inlaid wood on the top. When those rings are spun to the right position, it allows 6 secret compartments to swing-out.

This tilt-top table, once for sale on Rita Bucheit Antiques, was built in 1825 and shows an interesting secret compartment revealed when the top is tilted vertically.

Secret compartments are nothing new. This Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters belt buckle from 1946 includes a slide out hidden compartment.

I haven't found much background info on this story, but it looks like someone was trying to smuggle large amounts of contraband across the border with secret compartments in hay bales.

Behind a hinged painting, picture frame, or movie poster is a great place to store media equipment, as seen in this traditional home theater featured on Houzz.

ProPassione makes this cigarette stainless steel flask, complete with a hidden stash compartments for cigarettes or cash.

Here's a DIY project from Saving4Six showing exactly how to add some concealed drawers under the basement stairs. They use old drawers from a dresser tand basic supplies to add unexpected storage to an unused space.