10. Anthrax Island In Scotland, there is an island called Gruinard
and you can’t go there because it was poisoned by the government! The locals call it the Island of
Death, or Anthrax Island. It's a forbidden zone and has been for almost 80 years. Back in World
War Two, this island became a secret biological weapons testing center for the UK government.
Authorities won’t allow anybody on the island and it gets no visitors except the occasional
kayaker brave enough to brush against its shores. The biological weapons being tested here were
anthrax bombs. A team of about 50 scientists worked with locals and brought some sheep and
set them up in pens. The military then dropped bombs from bomber planes filled
with anthrax spores on the sheep to see how successful the infectious disease could be
in a war situation. This was back in 1942. It became clear pretty quickly just how powerful
anthrax could be. Within three days, the sheep were dead, and the island was uninhabitable.
It was actually surprising that the people involved didn’t get deathly ill!
The final report from this experiment stated that biological weapons such as anthrax bombs can
paralyze or render an entire city inhospitable. Governments have had access to city-destroying
biological bombs for almost a century. As for the island, it's still considered a no-go zone,
although the land is allegedly free from disease. 9. The Coca-Cola Vault
The Coca-Cola Vault is one of the most unexpected forbidden places in the world. The reason is of
course the secret recipe for Coca-Cola. It's considered one of the best-kept secrets in
history, and it's stored in the Coca-Cola Vault, a place just about as secure as Fort Knox.
The recipe for Coca-Cola was created by John Pemberton in Atlanta in 1886.
He had studied pharmacy and was interested in chemistry. In the American Civil War he was
injured and soon became addicted to Morphine. He tried to come up with opium-free painkillers and
experimented with different recipes until he came up with his incredible concoction!
He marketed it as a medicine that would cure headaches, relieve exhaustion and calm nerves.
It gave you energy and tasted good, so of course everyone believes there must have
been a small amount of cocaine in it! Ever since, competitors have been greedily trying
to figure out how to recreate the formula with no success. The myth is that only two living
people have ever seen the legendary formula with their own eyes. Elon Musk has tweeted that next
on his list of purchases is going to be Coca Cola so he can put the cocaine back in it!
But I digress… so let's look at the vault. It's at the World of Coca Cola Museum in Atlanta,
a museum that shows the history and legacy of the company. This place opened in May 2007 and you
can taste all kinds of flavors! Have you been there?? And while most of the facility is an
ordinary museum, there is a high-tech vault inside holding the original recipe. The museum
even has its own bottling line so that visitors can get the freshest Coca-Cola in the world.
You can indeed see the vault at the museum while taking a tour. But there's no way you're getting
into it. The only way you can get inside the vault and look at the secret formula is if you spend
billions of dollars and buy it! 8. Plymouth
Plymouth is a ghost town on the island of Montserrat, a territory of the United Kingdom in
the middle of the West Indies. Settlers built the town in the shadow of the Soufriere Hills Volcano,
which turned out to be a poor decision. The volcano has been active for a very long time,
and in 1995 it became so active that Plymouth had to be evacuated. But it wasn't until 1997 that the
residents permanently abandoned the town. Lava bombs and ash flows burned and buried the place,
making it inhospitable. For centuries until that point, Plymouth had been the only port of entry to
the island. It's still technically the capital of Montserrat, which makes it the only ghost capital
of any political territory in the world. There is currently a new capital under construction on the
other side of the island, but it's not ready yet. This is a dangerous place to go. And that’s why
there is the Soufriere Hills Volcano Exclusion Zone. This zone covers the entire southern part of
the island. At least two-thirds of it is high risk because of flying rocks and unexpected pyroclastic
bursts. Authorities have excluded anyone from entering this area. The entire place is vulnerable
to volcanic phenomena, but the exclusion zone, in particular, is immediately dangerous.
The volcano could blow, wiping everyone out. But even in the exclusion zone, a random tremor could
cause a giant lava rock to land on your head. 7. The Forbidden Amazon
The Uncontacted Frontier is an area in the Amazon jungle which straddles the borders of Peru,
Brazil, and Bolivia. This area is home to the highest concentration of uncontacted tribes
anywhere on the planet. Everywhere miners and loggers haven't destroyed the land,
these people are still thriving. Everywhere else, drug traffickers, oil exploration,
and that kind of thing have ravaged the land. Officials technically consider the Uncontacted
Frontier a forbidden place. No outsiders allowed! There are at least 6 uncontacted tribes
that we know of (Isconahua, Matses, Mastanahua, Nanti, Nahua, and Sapanawa).
But there could be more. We just don't know about them because nobody may go here and ask around.
We also know very little about these people. Other than that they have no borders,
they continue nomadic traditions which have been going on for centuries,
and they are in imminent danger of being wiped out. Their biggest threats are rubber plantations
and disease brought to them by greedy outsiders. That's one reason there is such a high
concentration of uncontacted tribes here. When the rubber boom happened,
invaders murdered or enslaved thousands of these Amazonian tribesmen. The few that remained fled
into the deepest part of the Amazon and are now hiding out there. Still, as the industry pushes
deeper into the jungle, their days are numbered. What do these people do out there in the middle
of the bush? Most are nomadic, which means they move around depending on the seasons.
When it's raining, they retreat away from the rivers into the deep forest. When it's dry, they
camp along the large stretches of river, where they fish and collect turtle eggs. They also live
in traditional communal housing, they plant crops in any open parts of the forest that they find,
and they hunt in moderation. In theory the government has
designated this area a forbidden zone to protect the tribes but they are constantly under threat.
6. Mount Weather Mount Weather is a secret government
facility that is completely out of bounds, and extremely mysterious. Located in Virginia,
it covers about 564 acres. And it's the emergency operations backup site for the US Department of
Homeland Security. We also know that on April 7, 2015, after a major electrical power outage hit
the region of Washington, DC, Mount Weather suddenly became extremely active. The very
second the outage threatened the power in DC, this mysterious facility lit up like a Christmas tree.
Because of this, we know for sure the Mount Weather facility is some kind of
backup for sensitive operations going on in the nation's capital. What else is happening inside
is a total mystery. The official story is that the government uses the facility as a defensive bunker
and as part of the planning and preparation for emergencies and catastrophes. But it's also filled
with unknown equipment, intelligence technology, and personnel. Declassified government records
show that FEMA has operated it since 1979. We also know that in 1962, during the Cuban missile
crisis, emergency response teams whisked top Washington officials away to an underground bunker
here. That bunker probably exists to this day. What do you think is happening at Mount Weather
we don't know about? Let me know in the comments and don't forget to subscribe before
the end of the video! 5. Niihau
Niihau is the most forbidden island in Hawaii. It's one of the most beautiful
and unique islands in the world, the place where even the ultra-rich can't even dream
of vacationing. It's located 17 miles (27km) from the resorts of Kauai on the beach, a single
stretch of land that's virtually untouched, and will remain that way for the near future.
The family that owns the island of Niihau restricted it to the 70 residents and their
families who live there permanently. These people only live there because the family which has owned
the island since the year 1864 invited them. It's 69 square miles (111sqkm), has no grocery stores,
no plumbing, no cops, and not even any paved roads. The residents live by drinking rainwater,
using solar panels, and either hunting or farming. It's an unspoiled ecosystem with some of the most
endangered species living there in total peace and harmony. It's paradise on earth,
which is the reason it's forbidden. If anyone else could go and if tourists started flocking there,
the island would probably be ruined. Who owns this place? In 1810, the people united
the island under the rule of the great Kamehameha I. Then, in 1863, the Sinclair family arrived
in Honolulu from New Zealand, at which time King Kamehameha IV offered to sell the island to them.
Ever since, the island has stayed in the Sinclair family, currently owned by their descendants Bruce
and Keith Robinson. And believe it or not, the Sinclair family only paid $10,000 for it.
4. Menwith Hill Menwith Hill is the alleged secret US military
base in Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Unconfirmed reports say that from this forbidden facility,
the United States is carrying out surveillance and assassination programs.
Officially, Menwith Hill is a Royal Air Force base. It's hugely protected, a massive acreage
sitting in the middle of rural North Yorkshire. There are only ten people here at any given time
from the Royal Air Force. And yet, there are roughly 1000 US military
personnel there. For every one British person at the base, there are 100 US people.
What separates this base from others is its secrecy. You can see the thing from
miles away because it has 30 giant white globes spread across its property, looking like huge
golf balls. Inside the globes are antennae that link the base to who knows how many satellites
circling the globe. And again, who knows what these satellites are doing? Almost certainly
gathering information for military, political, and economic use. And the staff allegedly relay
directly all of this information to the Pentagon. Simply, Menwith Hill, which isn't even in the US,
is the center of the information-collection nexus of America. It’s the NSA’s biggest and most
forbidden base, and it’s not even on US soil! 3. Ayers Rock
On October 26, 2019, one of the most famous climbs in the world was closed. Ayers Rock,
also called Uluru, is a sacred stone in the middle of the Australian Outback, in the Uluru Kata-Tjuta
National Park. In October 1985, the government gave the land back to the traditional owners,
who immediately pushed the tourists out of their community. But they never closed down Uluru
itself, the great red rock rising to greet the sun amidst the red sand of the desert. Not until 2019.
Now, it's forbidden to climb the sacred stone. You can still visit the rock, but under no
circumstance can you climb onto it. While this may not seem like a big deal to the average person,
to international climbers and people who know about the rock, it definitely is. At
an elevation of 2831 feet (863m), it was one of the most popular trips to take in Australia
and has been a national monument for many years. The reason climbing on it was so frowned upon
goes back to the Aboriginal people of the area. The enormous sandstone formation has been sacred
to them for centuries. It's woven into their creation legends. Each crack and fissure
represents a story. And for over a century, people were climbing all over it like a jungle gym.
2. Morgan Island Morgan Island is just off
the coast of South Carolina. Some call it Monkey Island since it's home to over 4000 primates, some
are still used in medical testing. As outrageous as that is to hear, it's true. A landscape that
looks like the Planet of the Apes is just a few miles from the coast of South Carolina.
But it's not like the Planet of the Apes at all. It would make more sense to call it a monkey farm.
It all began in 1979. A brutal wave of the herpes B virus swept through Puerto Rico's monkey
population. Researchers shipped a few hundred of these monkeys, rhesus monkeys to be exact,
to Morgan Island for research. All these years later, their population has spiked to 4000 and
the birth rate is 750 a year. The reason I called it a monkey farm is that, annually,
researchers take 500 of these monkeys from their home and use them for medical testing. The federal
government protects the entire island, and the only people allowed on it are the researchers
who use the monkeys in their experiments. As terrible as it sounds, you might
call it a necessary evil. Thanks to the experiments made possible by these monkeys,
scientists have made vaccines for polio, AIDS, and even against bioterrorist threats.
1. The Pravcicka Gate The Pravcicka Gate is the highest rock
bridge in Europe. The gate stands 52 feet tall (16m), 26 feet wide (8m), and 85 feet (26m) long.
It's enormous, located in Bohemian Switzerland in the Czech Republic. It's been a national monument
since the 18th century. And even though it looks strong and mighty, it's extremely fragile.
This shocks scientists because it hasn’t collapsed yet under its own immense weight. And for this
reason, it's forbidden for anyone to walk on it. The Pravcicka Gate is about 100,000 years old.
It formed when the entire area was at the bottom of the sea because of settling sand and erosion.
And even though it's called a gate, it doesn't lead anywhere. The biggest sandstone arch in
Europe is a natural sandstone color. It's also the most striking thing you can see in
the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. It's been out of bounds and forbidden since 1982,
and the only way to see it is from a specialized viewpoint. You can still visit the Falcon’s Nest
Inn nestled in the bridges shadow, an old hotel built in 1826 but you can't get anywhere near it!
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