Top 10 Most Restricted Places On Earth in 2019 You Are Not Allowed To Visit!
10. Heard Island Volcano – Australia
This Australian external territory about two thirds of the way between Madagascar and Antarctica, is considered one of the most remote places on earth. The 368 sq. miles land is mountainous, having 41 glaciers and is home to many of wildlife including penguins, seals, and marine birds.
In 2000, the University of Hawaii noted a 2 kilometer long lava flow coming from the southwest side of Mawson’s Peak, a 2,745-foot-high complex volcano which has been active ever since.
Aside from the volcano and its dangers, the weather on the island is also deadly and very notorious.also its a minimum two-week sail to any other major land mass.
9. Ise Grand Shrine – japan
It is located in the town of Uji-tachi in the Mie Prefecture of Japan, is a Shinto shrine complex dedicated to the goddess Amaterasu-omikami, which consists of two main shrines and about 125 secondary shrines.The location of the shrine is said to date back to the 3rd century, the standing structures have been dismantled and replaced every 20 years, most recently in 2013.
Consistent with Shinto beliefs regarding death and renewal. One of the main shrines is believed to house the ‘Sacred Mirror,’ called Yata no Kagami, part of the Imperial Regalia of Japan. the shrine is one of Shinto’s holiest and most important sites.
Access to both sites is strictly limited, with the common public not allowed beyond sight of the thatched roofs of the central structures, hidden behind four tall wooden fences. However, tourists are free to roam theforest, including its ornamental walkways after Meiji period.
8. Lascaux Caves – France
The Lascaux Caves are the setting of a complex of caves near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne in southwestern France. Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave. The paintings represent primarily large animals, typical local and contemporary fauna that correspond with the fossil record of the Upper Paleolithic time.
The drawings are the combined effort of many generations, and with continued debate, the age of the paintings is estimated at around 17,000 years (early Magdalenian).Lascaux was inducted into the UNESCOWorld Heritage Sites list in 1979.
However since 2008, the caves have been completely closed off to the public following a fungal outbreak, with only a small handful of scientists allowed to enter for just a few days a month in order to study the paintings.
7. Poveglia – Italy
This small island is located between Venice and Lido within the Venetian Lagoon in northern Italy. Throughout its history, it has been home to a fort, used as a shipping check point, been a quarantine station for the Bubonic Plague, and since the turn of the last century, and later as a mental hospital.
Because of this, the island is frequently featured on paranormal shows. The mental hospital closed in 1968, the psychiatric hospital was closed down and the island was abandoned. It’s no wonder — Poveglia has long been considered one of the most haunted places on earth.
Rumor has it that the ghosts of plague victims, war victims, and the ghost of a murderous asylum doctor roam the decaying grounds. The Italian government offered the island up for long term lease (99 years) in 2014 in the hope that someone would redevelop the land.
6. Vatican Secret Archives, Vatican City – Italy
Buried deep within the walls of Vatican City, and mostly underground, are the Vatican Secret Archives, which holds the immense history of the acts of the Holy See, along with historic documents, state papers, papal account books, and other official correspondence, some of which dates back to the eighth century.
In the 17th century, under the orders of Pope Paul V, the Secret Archives were separated from the Vatican Library, where scholars had some very limited access to them, and remained closed to outsiders until the late 19th century, when Pope Leo XIII opened them to researchers, more than a thousand of whom now examine some of its documents each year.
The archives, which are the official property of the current pope, have been estimated to span over 52 milesof shelving with more that 35,000 items.
5. Svalbard Global Seed Vault – Norway
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) from the North Pole.The seed vault is an attempt to ensure against the loss of seeds in other genebanks during large-scale regional or global crises.
The Norwegian government entirely funded the vault’s approximately 45 million kr (US$8.8 million in 2008) construction.Primary funding for the Trust comes from organisations such as the Bill & Melinda GatesFoundation and from various governments worldwide.
Fact: Each seed sample consists of approximately 500 seeds sealed in an airtight aluminum bag. The facility has a storage capacity of 4.5 million seed samples
4. North Sentinel Island – Andaman Islands
The North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island.It is home to the Sentinelese, a people who have rejected, often violently, any contact with the outside world. They are among the last uncontacted peoples to remain virtually untouchedby modern civilization.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Act of 1956.prohibits travel to the island and any approach closer than five nautical miles (9.26 km) in order to prevent the resident tribespeople from contracting diseases to which they have no immunity.
The area is patrolled by the Indian navy. The Sentinelese have repeatedly attacked approaching vessels. This resulted in the deaths of two fishermen in 2006 and an American missionary, John Allen Chau, in 2018.
3. Area 51 – Nevada
The United States Air Force facility commonly known as Area 51 is a highly classified remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, within the Nevada Test and Training Range.According to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the correct names for the facility are Homey Airport (ICAO: KXTA) and Groom Lake.
The base’s current primary purpose is publicly unknown; however, based on historical evidence, it most likely supports the development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems .Area 51 is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States, 83 miles (134 km) north-northwest of Las Vegas. Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large military airfield.
The area surrounding Area 51 is a popular tourist destination for alien enthusiasts, access to Area 51 itself is completely prohibited, except to intelligence and military personnel with special clearance. The airspace above the base is also a no-go area and is rumored to be protected with anti aircraft weaponry and fighter jets.
2. Snake Island – Brazil
The Snake Island, is an island off the coast of Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean.This island is small in size and has many different types of terrain, ranging from bare rock to rainforest, and a temperate climate. It is the only home of the critically endangered venomous golden lancehead pit viper, which has a diet of birds.There are more than 4,000 of them on the island, but local lore suggests that there is one snake for every five square meters of the land.
The Brazilian government has prohibited any visitors from setting foot there with one exception: Every few years the government grants a handful of scientists a permit to study the snakes.
1. Tomb of the Qin Shi Huang – China
The tomb of China’s first Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, who died in 210 BC, is buried deep beneath a hill in Central China. The burial complex consists of a complicated network of underground caverns that were filled with all the things the emperor would need in the afterlife, including clay reproductions of his armies, family, servants, horses, and staff, widely known as the Terracotta Army.
Since its initial discovery in 1974, over 2,000 statues have been excavated, each of them completely unique, and experts believe that there may be more that 8,000 in total surrounding the central tomb, still yet to be uncovered. However, the Chinese government might never allow the excavation of the emperor’s tomb, choosing to respect the ancient burial rites.
So while tourists can catch a glimpse of the emperor’s clay army during a site tour, the ancient warrior’s main tomb may remain undiscovered indefinitely.
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