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Imagine a cave rivered with prehistoric art, a wood dusted with nuclear fallout, and an impenetrable vault burrowed into a ridge of water ice. What do these places have in common? Aye, they're all highly intriguing, but some other commonality exists: no one is allowed—or, in some cases, able—to visit these locations. From Cold War-era bunkers and dark tourism favorites to beaches lined with palm copse, our list showcases the destinations you wish y'all could post on your Instagram account.

Poveglia | Venice Lagoon, Italy

The macabre Poveglia Island sits in the Venice Lagoon off the coast of Northern Italy. Used early every bit a military outpost, Poveglia took a dark plough in 1576 when the Bubonic Plague struck Venice. Having learned from a devastating plague in the 1300s, Venetians quarantined the sick on Poveglia, and dumped corpses into mass graves on the isle's shores.

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Nevertheless, the island's dark by doesn't terminate there. A mental hospital opened on Poveglia in 1922 and the facility'due south abusive doctors were notorious for "treating" their patients with lobotomies. At present, it's illegal to fix human foot on the abandoned island, which is probably for the best. Not only do bones occasionally wash upwardly on Poveglia, but so many people were cremated and buried there that it's estimated that more than fifty percentage of the isle'due south soil is composed of man ash.

Big Ben Volcano | Heard Island, Australia

Depending upon the route you accept, Heard Island is between 2,400 and 3,000 miles from mainland Australia—closer, in fact, to Antarctica and riddled with the glaciers to testify that proximity. Though these glaciers embrace around 70 percentage of Heard Island'due south surface, the site's virtually intriguing feature remains Big Ben, an active volcano that holds the title of tallest mountain in an Australian-owned territory.

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Due to the rough waters, unpredictable weather, and strict permissions needed from the Australian Antarctic Partition, you won't be visiting this hotspot anytime soon. Yet, with everything from lava flows to penguins, Heard Isle remains intriguing—peradventure fifty-fifty more and so for researchers looking to monitor climate modify.

North Brother Island | New York City, New York

Sandwiched between the Bronx and Rikers Island, this 22-acre island in New York's Eastward River is known for its disturbing by as a quarantine zone, starting with outbreaks of typhoid fever, smallpox, and tuberculosis during the 1880s. North Brother Island's nearly notorious short-term resident was Mary "Typhoid Mary" Mallon, who, despite showing no symptoms herself, spread the contagious bacteria to an declared 51 people.

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If this dismal footnote isn't enough to solidify North Brother's morbid reputation, information technology was too the site of one of the deadliest events in New York's history when thousand people perished just offshore in a 1905 steamship fire. In the 1950s, the infirmary reopened, housing state of war veterans, and, later, briefly became a treatment facility for youths experiencing drug addiction, before formerly closing in 1963.Sound similar the perfect island getaway? Yous may be in luck: New York's Parks Department is considering reopening the island for public tours.

Aksum (or Axum) | Ethiopia

In northern Ethiopia, the vestiges of the Aksumite Kingdom, from tombs to obelisks, mingle with Christian churches, such every bit the well-known Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion. This particular church is, in part, what earns Aksum a spot on our list. Though visitors can explore many of the ruins, museums, and sites in Aksum, entry into Our Lady Mary'southward chapel is strictly prohibited.

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The church building claims to exist the resting place of the original Ark of the Covenant, an artifact allegedly congenital to store the rock tablets upon which the Ten Commandments were inscribed. According to the Bible, the Ark shouldn't be touched—and, according to Indiana Jones, you shouldn't look upon it, either. In Aksum, only the appointed guardian monk may enter the chapel and view the Ark, hence the shroud of mystery surrounding its supposed resting place.

Surtsey Island | Iceland

The volcanic island of Surtsey lies about 18 miles from Iceland. By most standards, Surtsey is a relatively "new" island, created in the backwash of eruptions that occurred in the mid-1960s. Yet, unlike Heard Island, volcanoes aren't what's stopping visitors from setting foot on Surtsey.

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Purposely protected since its creation, Surtsey is completely free from human being meddling. Instead, scientists take been able to report this unblemished ecosystem and the development of its bacteria, fungi, and plant-life. Excitingly, upwardly of fourscore species of birds have been spotted on Surtsey, merely our feathered friends will be the only ones nesting there—or dropping by for a visit.

Majority of Hashima Island | Japan

Hashima Island, besides known as "Gunkanjima" due to its resemblance in shape to a battleship, has important ties to undersea coal mining, which began when the Mitsubishi Corporation purchased information technology in 1890. At its nigh populous, Hashima Island was once home to upwards of 5,000 residents. And then petroleum gave coal the shaft, leading to the official closure of the mines in 1974.

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Attempts to protect the island as a UNESCO World Heritage Site initially faced backlash due to the island's troubling associations with wartime slave labor. Despite Hashima's harrowing history, visitors still embark on the 9-mile voyage from Nagasaki to have in the sea-weathered buildings of this abandoned island. This site makes our list because a vast majority of Hashima remains closed to tourists as the crumbling, overgrown structures take been accounted dangerous.

For this reason, information technology may exist better to table whatsoever plans to visit. Unless you happen to be James Bond or the bandage and crew of Skyfall (2012).

North Sentinel Island | Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Northward Sentinel Isle, office of the Andaman Island archipelago, lies in the Bay of Bengal and is habitation to ane of the world'south few remaining largely isolated groups of peoples, called the Sentinelese by those outside their customs. Since the late 1700s, when the East India Company and merchant vessels developed trade routes near the island, the natives of Northward Sentinel Isle were able to stave off colonial forces. To this day, the Sentinelese remain virtually autonomous.

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In 2018, N Sentinel Island grabbed the globe's attending when an American missionary trespassed on the island. Reports from the Indian government show that the native peoples tried to chase off the man, only his insistence to disrespect their wishes to be left alone resulted in the missionary's death.It is considered illegal to set up foot on the island and, out of respect for the Sentinelese, that policy won't alter.

Vatican Clandestine Archives | Vatican City

In 1612, Pope Paul V decreed that all Cosmic Church records should be housed in the same, centralized place. Though a selection of the Archives were displayed in 2012 to mark the institution's 400th ceremony, you'd be difficult-pressed to receive an invite to the Archives themselves.

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While scholars can become through a rigorous awarding procedure to proceeds entry to the Archives, there are still endless restrictions on the materials they tin view. The Archives hold materials dating back to the 8th century, including messages from Michelangelo, challenge he wasn't paid for the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and Male monarch Henry VIII'southward asking to annul his union.Not a scholar, but nevertheless interested in visiting the Archives? Write a "controversial" delineation of them, as Dan Brown did in his novel Angels and Demons, and maybe the powers that be volition invite you lot in to refute that depiction.

Mendenhall Water ice Cave | Juneau, Alaska

This site is unique to our list—not simply considering the water ice caves are a partially hollow glacier, but because this destination is technically accessible. For now. At 12 miles long, the Mendenhall Glacier marks the top of whatsoever Juneau-bound traveler's to do list, but only the nigh daring of adventurers have explored the dazzlingly bluish water ice caves beneath it.

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To achieve the caves, visitors must either cross the frozen tundra or kayak through miles of choppy h2o, depending upon atmospheric condition, and then climb over the glacier's lip. The natural wonder is besides wondrously precarious: cavern-ins and collapses could happen at any moment. Moreover, the caves are besides existence contradistinct irrevocably equally the Mendenhall Glacier retreats at an increasingly fast rate due to climate change.

If this otherworldly, fleeting site tops your bucket list, don't expect to visit.

Red Wood | Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine

As a result of HBO's series, Chernobyl (2019), which traces the nuclear blow that occurred in 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant outside the Ukrainian metropolis of Pripyat, interest in the expanse has reached an all-fourth dimension high. Merely, thanks to the aptly named Red Wood, the number of tourists isn't the just thing growing here.

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Initially, the pines in the Ruby-red Wood, just downwind of the power establish, turned a reddish-brown color and died. In 2018, researchers from the Great britain sent drones deep into the Exclusion Zone to test the forest'south radiation levels, fifty-fifty though regrowth has begun. Surprisingly, the Reddish Forest remains one of the most radioactive areas nearly the site.While yous may exist able to book a tour and fifty-fifty stay overnight in Pripyat'southward only hotel, access is highly limited. Many areas, including those in the forest, are off-limits to the casual dark tourist.

Cheyenne Mountain Circuitous | Colorado Springs, Colorado

A armed services installation and bunker located nether 2,000 feet of granite seems like something out of the latest Marvel movie, only the Cheyenne Mountain Complex isn't Due south.H.I.Eastward.Fifty.D.'due south latest project. Founded every bit a result of the NORAD (then known as the N American Air Defence force Command) agreements in 1958, the facility encapsulates exactly the sort of defensive control centre we imagine being built during the Common cold War.

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Excavated and retrofitted with nail doors that tin withstand nuclear attacks, Cheyenne Mount isn't your average hike. And, unless y'all have the proper security clearance, yous won't be visiting its halls anytime soon—at to the lowest degree, non exterior of Stargate SG-1 or Independence Mean solar day (1996).

The Ise Grand Shrine | Ise, Mie Prefecture of Honshu, Japan

According to Shinto religion and Japanese myth, Amaterasu is the goddess of the lord's day and ruler of the heavens. It's also said that the Emperors of Nihon are her descendants. But what makes Ise Grand Shrine off-limits to visitors? Many believe that the Yata no Kagami, Amaterasu's sacred mirror, is housed in the inner shrine of the site.

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The mirror is ane of three objects that brand upwards the Imperial Regalia of Japan—the others being the sword, Kusanagi, and the jewel, Yasakani no Magatama. Due to the objects' legendary statuses, the shrines that house them are considered some of the most important sites in Shinto faith. For this reason, the public is non allowed across the wooden fences that encircle the Ise Grand Shrine, though visitors are welcome to bout the walkways and forests surrounding it.

Bohemian Grove | Monte Rio, California

If you've ever suspected that Silicon Valley's rich and powerful composed a modern-solar day secret club, you tin can residue assured that the Bay Area's interest in elite, mysterious societies stretches back much further than apps and search engines. Nestled deep in the redwoods of Sonoma County is the near 3,000-acre Bohemian Grove, the site of the Maverick Club's almanac gathering.

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Seemingly filled with immoderacy, these midsummer gatherings accept occurred since 1878. The members, all wealthy men—who are mostly white and largely bourgeois—throw what many believe is a giant, well-funded frat party. Notorious members include William Randolph Hearst, Newt Gingrich, Bob Weir of Grateful Expressionless and allegedly every Republican president of the Usa since Calvin Coolidge.Former members claim that there'southward goose egg Midsommar (2019) most it, despite raging bonfires, a towering Owl Shrine, and a theatrical anniversary nebulously-titled Cremation of Intendance. Interested? That'll exist $25,000, plus yearly dues.

Ilha da Queimada Grande (or "Snake Isle") | Brazil

Often dubbed the "deadliest place on Earth," Ilha da Queimada Grande is notoriously uninhabitable—unless you lot're a snake. Ophidian Island, as it's colloquially called, lies about 25 miles off the coast of mainland Brazil and is populated by between 2,000 and four,000 serpents. Given the size of the island, that'southward roughly at least one deadly serpent per square foot.

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Due to rise sea levels thousands of years ago, the snakes—an incredibly deadly pit viper species known as the gold lancehead—became isolated from the mainland and, having only birds to casualty on, evolved to get incredibly venomous. Unsurprisingly, the sheer danger of the island has led Brazilian authorities to deem it illegal for anyone to set foot on Ilha da Queimada Grande.Instead, we suggest visiting the much tamer Snake Island located in Boston Harbor, which is named for its harmless ophidian-like shape.

Pino Gap | Near Alice Springs, Commonwealth of australia

Dotted with golf ball-like spheres called radomes, this stretch of desert in Australia's Northern Territory provided the perfect place for a CIA base of operations during the Cold State of war, when collecting intelligence was of utmost importance. Now, signs on Pino Gap'south dead-stop route characterization it as a "Joint Defence Facility." Essentially, information technology's an intelligence and military machine operation upheld by both Americans and Australians.

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Just the road signs also warn trespassers to turn around and refrain from taking photographs. Undoubtedly, the only thing warm about this welcome is the heat of the Outback. Still, in recent years, anti-state of war protestors, or "peace pilgrims," take disregarded the signs and entered the prohibited surface area in an attempt to illustrate the importance of closing this Cold War-era relic.

That said, if you fancy an arrest while on vacation feel gratuitous to disregard the signs, too. Otherwise, snap pictures of the geodesic domes from the neighboring MacDonnell Ranges.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault | Isle of Spitsbergen, Svalbard Archipelago

At first glance this entryway, slanted into an icy mountainside, looks like part of Repeat Base of operations, the Rebel Brotherhood's settlement on the snow-laden planet Hoth. In reality, it's not in a milky way far, far abroad, simply on an isle in the Svalbard archipelago, midway betwixt the North Pole and the furthest reaches of mainland Norway.

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Thanks to the natural permafrost that keeps the Vault's contents at the required -18°C, it'southward able to store some of the world'southward almost valuable assets: seeds. Co-ordinate to Crop Trust, the group behind the massive endeavor, the aim of the Vault is to "safeguard as much of the world'south unique crop genetic material as possible." Currently, the Vault holds more than than 968,000 samples out of a possible 2.5 million seeds.Burrowed 3,280 feet into a mountain and on a remote isle? Consider the Seed Vault our new favorite doomsday hideout.

Ni'ihau | Hawaii

Known as the "Forbidden Island," Ni'ihau is, in many ways, unchanged by time. Though touched by colonialism—a Scottish woman named Elizabeth Sinclair-Robinson purchased Ni'ihau from King Kamehameha V in 1864—the native civilisation and style of life has been largely preserved.

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The Robinson family initially welcomed outsiders who wanted to observe the people of Ni'ihau'due south way of life, but a devastating polio outbreak in 1952 caused them to ban visitors. Today, these visitation restrictions hold true. Ni'ihau, which does non have paved roads or running h2o, is preserved against outside influence and has immune the native peoples to maintain their cultures, traditions, and style of living.In fact, the only fashion to literally set human foot on the island is past personal invitation from the Robinson family unit. Otherwise, you can settle for flying over the island, via helicopter, or snorkeling in its nearby reefs.

Lascaux Cavern | Nearly the Village of Montignac, France

In southern France, Lascaux cave houses over 600 prehistoric paintings on its walls and ceiling. After World State of war Two, the caves were opened to the general public, but their soaring popularity posed a meaning trouble: carbon dioxide.

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This past-product of breathing damaged the artwork and had a hand in irresolute the surround inside the cave arrangement every bit well, causing fungi and lichen to moss over the walls. To prevent further deterioration, the caves were closed to the public in 1963.Prehistoric cave art was also discovered in Spain, at Altamira, and, while this cave remained attainable through the 1970s, the walls faced similar damage, resulting in a three-twelvemonth waitlist to run across the paintings. With no plans of reopening, both Lascaux and Altamira tried to replicate the feeling of entering such immense, unique spaces past installing faux-wall and -ceiling fragments in galleries nearby the sites.

Area 51 | Lincoln County, Nevada

From experimental shipping to advanced weapons systems, Area 51 allegedly has it all. Only the highly-secretive nature of the war machine installation's operations also make information technology rife for conspiracy theories and UFO folklore, and fifty-fifty inspired an episode of The Ten-Files. Situated roughly 83 miles northwest of Las Vegas, the sprawling "no-fly" zone encompasses the Groom Lake salt apartment and a large swath of airfield. This all seems mundane, at least at first glance.

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Virtually of the base of operations'southward operations occur underground, adding to the mystique. Conspiracy theories vary wildly: some believe the military uses Area 51 to develop applied science capable of decision-making the weather or inducing time travel and teleportation, while others believe it stores the remains of the crashed alien spacecraft allegedly recovered in Roswell, New United mexican states.

Nonetheless, the only out-of-this-world destination tourists can wait to visit is the nearby "Extraterrestrial Highway," which embraces the otherworldly implications of the site.

Bhangarh Fort | Rajasthan, Bharat

Yes, you can explore (almost of) India's Bhangarh Fort to your heart's content, merely you'll be greeted by a sign from the Archaeological Survey of India that ominously reads, "It is forbidden to enter [the] borders of the haunted Bhangarh Fort before sunrise and after sunset." Why'due south that? The fort is believed to exist i of the nigh haunted places in the world.

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Even during the daylight, visitors claim to hear ghostly screams and music, or come across inexplicable lights and shadows. Some stories claim a tantric, who failed to win over Princess Ratnavati with his magic, cursed the grounds, while others affirm that Guru Balu Nath, who'd asked that the fort'south shadows not touch his preferred meditation spot, invoked his ain curse when Rex Madho Singh didn't obey his request when constructing Bhangarh. To this day, whatever attempt to cover the buildings has concluded in plummet.

Mount Weather Emergency Operations Eye | Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia

Just under 50 miles from Washington D.C., tucked abroad in the dumbo tree-line of the Blue Mountains, sits the United states of america' most robust contingency program, Mountain Weather. Like many sites on this list, the facility is a Common cold War-era project and near of the complex exists surreptitious.

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The idea: if any national disaster threatens the rubber of high-level government officials, they're brought to this bunker, which has its own burn down department, hospital, and tv studio for post-emergency regime broadcasts.Though the earth'southward most noteworthy doomsday bunker sounds like something out of a post-apocalyptic flick, information technology has been used a handful of times: most notably, leadership were relocated to Mount Conditions during the events of both the Cuban Missile Crunch and ix/11. Long story short, information technology'south i of the most heavily-guarded places in the globe, then if you arroyo the barbed wire and armed guards, we recommended just taking a hike.

Robins Isle | Peconic Bay, Long Island, New York

Known as one of the largest privately-owned islands on the East Coast, the teardrop-shaped Robins Island was purchased past Louis Moore Salary in 1993 for $11 million. A real (estate) steal to ain the unblemished 445 acres of state, filled with oak and cherry trees and deer roaming freely.

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Bacon, a Wall Street investor from Greenwich, Connecticut, wanted to preserve the natural splendor of the island, which, co-ordinate to the New York Times, environmentalists have dubbed, "Long Island'southward Yosemite Valley." Unless you're working with the Nature Conservancy, or one of Bacon's close friends, yous probably won't exist setting foot on Robins Island someday soon.A fun culling? Co-ordinate to local Long Isle-based publication, Sag Harbor Express, boaters sometimes convene on the calm channel, near a low-tide sand bar only to the northward of Robins Isle, which they fondly refer to equally the "Jewel of the Peconic."

Area 122 | Ross Island, Antarctica

Dubbed "Antarctica's Area 51" by journalists, Expanse 122 is one of 170 Antarctic Specially Protected Areas scattered throughout the continent. But, unlike the other science labs, it certainly garners the most conspiracy theories.

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Though the nature of the research is undisclosed, it's commonly thought that scientists are studying the aurora borealis or the ozone layer, and how these elements are being impacted by climatic change. Operated jointly by the Usa and New Zealand, the facility is off-limits to the public. Nonetheless, in 2022 a New Zealand-based journalist made the treacherous trip to Ross Island. Within, the journalist reported that she was shocked to see outdated computers and equipment akin to a sci-fi movie from the 1980s.Despite the reported inconspicuous nature of the lab, in that location'southward certainly something intriguing nearly a identify then remote and so shrouded in secrecy.

Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang | Xi'an, China

In 1974, farmers digging wells outside of Xi'an, China made an astounding archaeological discovery: they unearthed the first of thousands of life-sized clay soldiers. Known colloquially as the terracotta army, or terracotta soldiers, these statues are exquisitely-detailed, amazingly expressive, and arranged as an actual squadron would've been. Even more impressive? They are all part of a mausoleum belonging to the Outset Emperor of Qin, Qin Shi Huang.

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Archaeologists posit that roughly 8,000 figures, from warriors and weapons to horses and chariots, exist in the mausoleum, non including the treasures that lie in the unexcavated tomb of Qin Shi Huang himself. Nevertheless, the Chinese government has decided to halt the dig then applied science can catch up and ensure a safer excavation process.Since researchers believe Qin Shi Huang died every bit a consequence of ingesting mercury, a supposed elixir of immortality, mercury contagion in the soil besides presents a trouble.

Menwith Hill Purple Air Force Station | North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

The Regal Air Force'southward base at Menwith Hill is another joint operation, this time between the Usa and the United kingdom. Every bit if the rows of massive radomes—those golf game brawl-looking structures that enclose and protect satellites—weren't enough to tip you off, residuum bodacious that Menwith Hill deals in intelligence and communication.

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Back in 1954, the British War Part leased the bundle of land to the The states, which wanted to increase its presence during the Common cold State of war. What started every bit a style to monitor the Soviet Spousal relationship'due south transmissions shortly became an installation with the aim of monitoring all signals passing through British territory. Much like Pine Gap, Menwith Hill is the cause of many anti-war protests, merely demonstrating is not the style to skid into the installation—y'all're certain to be intercepted.

Heart Reef | Whitsunday Islands, Commonwealth of australia

When you think of an Australian tourism campaign, surely spotting a kangaroo, downing a Foster's beer, and swimming upward close to that little heart-shaped bit of coral in the Bully Barrier Reef come to mind. The only element on that mental checklist that doesn't ring completely false? Glimpsing a kangaroo.

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Though Foster'southward is billed equally the quintessential Aussie lager, it's no longer fabricated in Melbourne and imbibed far more in Britain. And that iconic Middle Reef? Yes, it'southward part of the Great Bulwark Reef, merely you won't be snapping a selfie about it any time soon equally snorkeling and diving near the Heart Reef are strictly prohibited in social club to protect it. So, either rent a seaplane and spot it from above, or settle for a 1200-mile drive down to the Sydney Opera House for a tourist snap that definitively says "the country Down Under."

Granite Mountain Records Vault | Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah

Certain, our next non-destination is built into a mountainside and composed of a network of underground tunnels, but information technology isn't a military installation. The Mormon Church building'southward Granite Mount Records Vault claims to be the world'southward largest collection of genealogical records. Information technology too acts as a repository for important Mormon Church-related documents and historical materials. The catch? Public tours are no longer offered.

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According to the Mormon Newsroom publication, the vault holds "more than than 3.5 billion images on microfilm, microfiche, and digital media," and the Church is currently working to digitize these all-encompassing records. Co-ordinate to Church officials, the vault began operations in 1965, not as a means of keeping data a surreptitious, but as a means of keeping the records secure and unblemished. However innocuous the facility is, y'all still don't have a prayer of getting in.

Koh Tachai | Thailand

Like most Thai marine parks, Koh Tachai, an island in Similan National Park, is closed every May through Oct for monsoon season. But, in 2016, Koh Tachai did non reopen in November to tourists.

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Popular with divers, the beautiful beaches of Koh Tachai used to swell with 14 times the amount of people experts said it should hold. In addition to overcrowding, inexperienced divers, more concerned with photographs than their surroundings, damaged the island's fragile reefs. All of this said, officials decided to close the isle for rehabilitation, though many fearfulness the impairment is irreparable.And this isn't merely a problem on Koh Tachai. Other destinations around the world, including Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, face harm from overcrowding and tourists' negligence. Every bit of now, Koh Tachai is closed to tourists indefinitely.

United Nations Buffer Zone | Cyprus

In the aftermath of a ceremonious war between its Greek and Turkish communities, the island of Republic of cyprus was eventually split into ii regions. To enforce this divide after the ceasefire of 1974, the United Nations established a permanent demilitarized buffer zone between the Greek and Turkish areas. The buffer zone remains off-limits, with walls and barbed wire fencing off this in-between space.

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In addition to crumbling houses and advertisements hawking products of a foretime era, the buffer zone too contains an abandoned airdrome and several rusted-over airplanes. Though some areas of the 112-mile buffer zone, such as those within the uppercase city of Nicosia, contain large swathes of land, other stretches are only a few feet wide. Pyla, a hamlet inside the buffer zone, marks the sole place where Greek and Turkish Cypriots live together.

Mezhgorye | Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia

Located in the southern Ural Mountains, Mezhgorye is a closed town in the Commonwealth of Bashkortostan, Russian federation. Though it was founded in 1979 (under the name Ufa-105, a reference to the Commonwealth'southward capital), Mezhgorye was officially given (top secret) boondocks status in 1995.

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Many believe the town cropped upwards initially to provide a abode to those working at the highly secretive Mount Yamantu functioning, a Common cold War-era base focused on developing a response to the U.s.' nuclear weapons.Despite the fact that Russian officials are notoriously vague when it comes to answering questions about the base, it's believed that the mountain facility is besides a nuclear bunker and storage area for artifacts and supplies. What does remain clear is that the closed town of Mezhgorye, with a population of 17,353, was congenital specifically for Mount Yamantu workers, but adding to its mystique.

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