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You see a mirror in a mirror in a mirror in a mirror ......
There are various gadgets using this effect.
For instance if you put a lightbulb between the two mirrors and look throug the one way mirror you will see (depending how parallel you've managed to put the mirrors) lots of lightbulbs disappearing into infinity. I know 'cause I've done it!
SGK
Good one, well a one way mirror is nothing but a piece of glass coated with a very thin layer of the reflective coating. So it acts like a partial mirror. You might be confused about the ones you see on TV. So why doesn't the "criminal suspect" see the detectives in the next room? The answer lies in the lighting of the two rooms. The room in which the glass looks like a mirror is kept very brightly lit, so that there is plenty of light to reflect back from the mirror's surface. The other room, in which the glass looks like a window, is kept dark, so there is very little light to transmit through the glass. On the criminal's side, the criminal sees his own reflection. On the detectives' side, the large amount of light coming from the criminal's side is what they see. In many ways, it's the same as if people were whispering in one room while a loud stereo played in the other. The sound of the whisper might carry into the room with the stereo, but it would be drowned out by the intensity of the music. So if you look through a one-way mirror at a mirror, you'll see your reflection( if illuminated on both sides of the one-way mirror ) and you'll see a cascade of the mirrors but without your image in it( if your side is darkened ).
trucktrout
Assuming ones view through the one-way-mirror is limited to only the reflective surface of the "target" , so to speak, mirror, and nothing else, and assuming the one way mirror is of good quality and free of spherical aberration and the like, then what one would see is, virtually, nothing.
PaulCyp
Interesting question. I haven't tried it, but logically you should see nothing. Since your image cannot pass through the one-way mirror from the back side, it therefore could not reach the normal mirror, and therefore could not reflect back to you. All you would see is what is between the two mirrors - which is nothing but air.
Marty L
If you look through a one way mirror you will see nothing but light crystals.