The modern world is loaded with secret and exclusive places where we either don’t understand, or merely couldn’t visit if we want to. This list analyses ten of the most significant places all over the world which might be closed to the community or are virtually impossible for the community to visit.
#10. Mezhgorye
Mezhgorye is a closed town in Russia which happens to be believed to house people working on the highly secret Mount Yamantaw. The town was founded in 1979. Mount Yamantaw stands at 1,640 metres (5,381 ft) which is the highest mountain in the southern Urals. As well as Kosvinsky Mountain (600 km to the north), it is suspected by the America for being a huge secret nuclear facility and/or bunker. Massive excavation projects have been observed by U.S. satellite imagery as recently since the late 1990s, in the time of Boris Yeltsin’s pro-Western government following fall of the Soviet Union. Two garrisons, Beloretsk-15 and Beloretsk-16, were built on top of the facility. Repeated U.S. questions have yielded several unique responses from the Russian government regarding Mount Yamantaw. They have stated it is a mining site, a repository for Russian treasures, a food storage area, and a bunker for leaders in case of nuclear war.
#9. Vatican Secret Archives
It’s been mentioned on a previous list – the archives aren’t secret despite their names. You can view any document you’d like. But you cannot go into the archive. You should submit your request for a document and it’ll be supplied to you. Despite the foolishness of the recent junk from Ron Howard and Dan Brown (Angels and Demons) the documents are generally available and there are no copies of suppressed scientific theories or great works which were banned. The only real documents you can’t access are those which aren’t yet 75 years old (with the intention to protect diplomatic and governmental information). Indexes are available for people that be interested in if a document exists in the archives. The Vatican Secret Archives happen to be estimated to contain 52 miles (84 km) of shelving, and there are 35,000 volumes within the selective catalogue alone.
#8. Club 33
Contrary to popular belief, Disneyland has a full liquor license which is used when the place closes right down to most of the people to accommodate private parties. But there is one place in Disneyland which is always available to sell booze: Club 33. Club 33 is a private club perfectly located in the heart of the New Orleans Square a part of Disneyland. Officially maintained as a secret feature of the amusement park, the entrance of the club is situated adjacent to the Blue Bayou Restaurant at “33 Royal Street” with the entrance recognizable by a luxuriant address plate with the number 33 engraved on it. Fees for joining are priced between 10 – 30 thousand US dollars and membership includes a carpark. If you want to join the club, you will need to go to the end of the fourteen year waiting list.
#7. Moscow Metro-2
Metro-2 in Moscow, Russia is a proposed secret underground metro system which parallels the public Moscow Metro. The system was built supposedly during (or from) the time of Stalin and codenamed D-6 by the KGB. Russian journalists have reported that the existence of Metro-2 is neither validated nor denied by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) or the Moscow Metro administration. The length of Metro-2 is rumored to exceed even that of the “civil” (i.e. public) Metro. (It is said to have 4 lines and lie 50 to 200 m deep. It is known to connect the Kremlin with the FSB headquarters, the government airport at Vnukovo-2, and an underground town at Ramenki, besides areas of national importance. Naturally, the truth that no-one confirms its existence makes it pretty difficult to visit.
#6. White’s Gentlemen’s Club
White’s is regarded as the exclusive English gentlemen’s club. It was founded in 1693 by Italian Francesco Bianco (Francis White) to sell the newly discovered hot chocolate but became a regular (but extremely private) gentlemen’s club. The club is known for its “betting book” in which members make bizarre gambles. The most famous which is a 3,000 pound bet which of two raindrops would slide down the window first. Exactly why is this club listed? Women are excluded completely from membership, so that is half our audience out. Secondly, men that desire to join this exclusive club can just do this if invited by a sitting member who have the support of two other members. Unless you are a member of royalty, or are extremely powerful in politics or the arts, you might be unlikely to ever see the exclusive White’s invitation.
#5. Area 51
I got put this so high listed since it is the one place most readers will certainly expect to see. Area 51 is a code name for a military base that is located in the southern part of Nevada in the western United States Of America, 83 miles (133 km) north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas. Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large secretive military airfield. The base’s major purpose is to support improvement and tests of experimental airplane and weapons systems. The rigorous secrecy all around the base, the particular existence of which the U.S. federal government barely acknowledges, has made it the regular subject of conspiracy theories and a central component to unidentified flying object (UFO) folklore. The sign above states that deadly force can be utilized if people enter the Area 51 zone.
#4. Room 39
Room 39 or Bureau 39 is possibly just about the most secretive organizations in North Korea that seeks strategies to obtain foreign currency for Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s Chairman of the National Defense Commission. Room 39 was established in the late 1970s. It has been identified as the lynchpin of the North’s so-called “court economy” devoted to the dynastic Kim family. It is unknown how the name originated. Very little is known about Room 39 because of the secretive nature all around the organization, but it is generally suspected that the organization uses ten to twenty banking accounts in China and Switzerland for the purposes of counterfeiting, money laundering, or other illicit transactions. It is also alleged that Room 39 is involved in drug smuggling and illicit weapon sales. It is known, however, that the organization has 120 foreign trade corporations under its authority and is under the direct management of Kim Jong-il. North Korea has denied involved in any illegal activities. Room 39 is believed to be located inside the ruling Workers’ Party building in Pyongyang, the administrative centre city of North Korea.
#3. Ise Grand Shrine
The Ise Grand Shrine in Japan (that is is a set of over 100 shrines) is considered the most sacred shrine in Japan. It is dedicated to Amaterasu (the Sun goddess) and has been in existence since 4BC. The primary shrine is alleged to keep the most important item in Japan’s imperial history: the Naiku (the mirror from Japanese mythology which eventually been found in the hands of the very first emperors). The shrine is demolished and rebuilt every 20 years consistent with the Shinto notion of death and rebirth (the next rebuilding will be in 2013). This ranks very high among the list of places you’ll never go since the only person that can enter is the priest or priestess and he have to be a member of the Japanese imperial family. So unless we have a Japanese prince or princess reading the site, nobody here will ever see anything further than the thatched roof of the Ise Grand Shrine.
#2. Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center
It’s a place that isn’t only closed to the public, but it’s a location which the public desire to never need to enter! In many “end of the world” films we have seen nowadays, there’s always an extremely classified area where US government officials and a chosen few get to go in the hopes that they can escape the upcoming doom. The Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center is the real thing. It was set up in the 1950s a result of the cold war but carries on operate today. It is a “last hope” area. For apparent reasons its operations are highly classified. It is run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The center is already functioning as well as in small local disasters in the US, most of the telecommunications traffic is routed through it.
#1. RAF Menwith Hill
RAF Menwith Hill is a British military services base with connections to the global ECHELON spy network. The site contains a comprehensive satellite ground station and is a communications intercept and missile warning site and it has been identified as the biggest electronic monitoring station on earth. The site gives ground station many different satellites operated by the US National Reconnaissance Office, regarding the US National Security Agency, with antennae included in a large numbers of highly distinctive white radomes, and is also purported to be a part of the ECHELON system. ECHELON was reportedly designed to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies in the Cold War in the early 1960s, but as the end of the Cold War it is thought to search also for hints of terrorist plots, drug dealers’ plans, and political and diplomatic intelligence. It has also been associated with reports of economic espionage and is believed to filter all telephone and radio communications in the nations which host it – a severe violation of privacy.
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