Top 10 Tuesday: Places you can't go

Top 10 Places You Can't Go

10. Mezhgorye

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Mezhgorye is a closed town in Russia which is believed to house people working on the highly secret Mount Yamantaw.

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Two garrisons, Beloretsk-15 and Beloretsk-16, were built on top of the facility. Repeated U.S. questions have yielded several different responses from the Russian government regarding Mount Yamantaw. They have said it is a mining site, a repository for Russian treasures, a food storage area, and a bunker for leaders in case of nuclear war.

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9. Vatican Secret Archives

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This has been mentioned on a previous list – the archives are not secret despite their names. You can view any document you wish. But you cannot enter the archive.

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The only documents you can’t access are those which are not yet 75 years old (in order to protect diplomatic and governmental information).

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The Vatican Secret Archives have been estimated to contain 52 miles (84 km) of shelving, and there are 35,000 volumes in the selective catalogue alone.

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8. Club 33

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But there is one place in Disneyland that is always open to sell booze: Club 33. Club 33 is a private club located in the heart of the New Orleans Square section of Disneyland.

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Fees for joining range from 10 – 30 thousand US dollars and membership comes with a car park. If you want to join the club, you have to go to the end of the fourteen year waiting list.

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7. Moscow Metro-2

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Metro-2 in Moscow, Russia is a purported secret underground metro system which parallels the public Moscow Metro.

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Needless to say, the fact that no one confirms its existence makes it pretty difficult to visit.

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6. White's Gentlemen's Club

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White’s is the most exclusive English gentlemen’s club.

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The club is famous for its “betting book” in which members make bizarre gambles. The most famous of which is a 3,000 pound bet on which of two raindrops would slide down the window first.

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Secondly, men who want to join this exclusive club can only do so if invited by a sitting member who has the support of two other members.

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5. Area 51

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Area 51 is a nickname for a military base that is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States, 83 miles (133 km) north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas.

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4. Room 39

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Room 39 or Bureau 39 is arguably one of the most secretive organizations in North Korea that seeks ways to obtain foreign currency for Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s Chairman of the National Defense Commission.

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Very little is known about Room 39 due to the secretive nature surrounding the organization, but it is widely speculated that the organization uses 10 to 20 bank accounts in China and Switzerland for the purposes of counterfeiting, money laundering, and other illicit transactions.

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3. Ise Grand Shrine

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The Ise Grand Shrine in Japan (which is actually a series of over 100 shrines) is the most sacred shrine in Japan.

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This ranks very high on the list of places you will never go because the only person who can enter is the priest or priestess and he must be a member of the Japanese imperial family.

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2. Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center

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In most “end of the world” films we see these days, there is always a highly classified area where US government officials and a chosen few get to go in the hopes that they can escape the impending doom. The Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center is the real thing. It was set up in the 1950s due to the cold war but continues to operate today.

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1. RAF Menwith Hill

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RAF Menwith Hill is a British military base with connections to the global ECHELON spy network. The site contains an extensive satellite ground station and is a communications intercept and missile warning site and has been described as the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. The site acts as a ground station for a number of satellites operated by the US National Reconnaissance Office, on behalf of the US National Security Agency, with antennae contained in a large number of highly distinctive white radomes, and is alleged to be an element of the ECHELON system. ECHELON was reportedly created to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies during the Cold War in the early 1960s, but since the end of the Cold War it is believed to search also for hints of terrorist plots, drug dealers’ plans, and political and diplomatic intelligence. It has also been involved in reports of commercial espionage and is believed to filter all telephone and radio communications in the nations which host it – an extreme violation of privacy.

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