15 FORBIDDEN PLACES You're Not Allowed To Visit!
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15 FORBIDDEN PLACES You're Not Allowed To Visit!
We're used to hearing and reading interesting stuff about the places we could visit. Subsequently, when we find the location that fascinates us, we think, "Wow, that's cool! I must add this location to my Bucket List and visit it sometime!" But what of the locations we should definitely leave off our Bucket Lists? What about those places where we're not allowed to enter? Well, these places are either just too dangerous, too safe, or even too special, even for the most experienced traveler. With that said, here are the 15 forbidden places You're Not Allowed to Visit!
15. Vatican Secret Archives
Located within the walls of the Vatican, next door to the Apostolic Library and just north of the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Secret Archives houses 53 linear miles of shelving from over 12 centuries ago! It contains gems such as the papal bull excommunicating Martin Luther and the pleas for help sent to Pope Sixtus V by Mary Queen of Scots before her execution. The range is almost peerless, in size and scope.
Apart from a very small staff taking care of the archives, access is strictly restricted to eligible scholars from very selected institutions of higher education and science, all of whom have to undergo a stringent application process for access to be granted entry.
14. Lascaux Caves
Considered a Unesco World Heritage Site, Lascaux Cave is a Palaeolithic cave located in southwestern France, close to the Dordogne village of Montignac, that houses several of the most prominent examples of prehistoric cave paintings. Up to 600 drawings, mostly of animals, scratch impressive compositions into the cave's interior walls. Horses are the most common but it’s also possible to find deer, aurochs, ibex, bison, and even some felines.
Lascaux remained open to the public for many years and tourists flocked to visit the site, recording over 1500 tourists a day!!!! It was until 1963 when visits were prohibited in an aim to conserve the site since the carbon dioxide in the human breath started to destroy the painted cave's prehistoric paintings.
13. Ise Grand Shrine
The Ise Grand Shrine is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu, located in Ise, Mie Prefecture of Japan. The complex is made up of various Shinto shrines centered around two main shrines, Naikū and Gekū. For the Shinto religion, the Grand Shrine of Ise is a very significant location.
Interestingly, the shrine was constructed without a single nail!!! Perhaps more importantly, according to the Shinto beliefs, this temple is reconstructed every 20 years (most recently, it took place in 2013). And they keep on using the wood joining technique every time they rebuild the shrine anew and never use nails.
Only priests and members of the imperial family are allowed to go there, to keep that place sacred. Everybody else can look at the temple, through wooden fences. Tourists are free to wander around the forest, including its ornamental walkways that date back to the Meiji period.
12. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
On the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, about 800 miles from the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was built 400 feet into a mountainside. The facility, which was officially opened in February 2008, now stores approximately 840,000 samples of 4,000 different seed species from around the world. It’s a long-term seed storage facility, built to stand the test of time and the risk of natural or man-made disasters.
In the case of a major global or regional occurrence, the concept behind the seed bank is to have a safety net against unintended loss diversity. It operates much like a secure deposit box at the bank, allowing organizations or governments to 'deposit' seed variations in the vault to keep them safe. Highly advanced security systems secure the 11,000-square-foot building, and access is strictly restricted to a handful of employees.
11. North Sentinel Island, Andaman Islands
This small, heavily forested island in the Bay of Bengal is completely surrounded by a coral reef which makes it difficult to reach by boat. However, its inaccessibility isn’t the biggest obstacle to a visit. North Sentinel Island is populated by a small indigenous group known as the Sentinelese, who ignored contact with all other peoples. They’re among the last groups in the world to remain untouched by modern civilizations.
In 2008, two fishermen were fired with arrows and stones by the Sentinelese after their boat accidentally strayed too close in the aftermath of the huge Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004.
15 FORBIDDEN PLACES You're Not Allowed To Visit!
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