10 World’s Best Places to Visit: Our fantastic planet has so many marvelous places to explore. India itself contains so many magnificent places but the irony is that one might not have seen complete India in their years of life but yes always plan to visit out of India. However, there are some places which are just very dangerous even for the most experienced voyager. These places have been completely disconnected from the outside world and strictly prohibited to visit these places which are described below.
10 World’s Best Places to Visit
Trip Place 1 Poveglia, Italy
This small island Poveglia is located between Venice and Lido within the Venetian Lagoon in northern Italy. It has been home to a fort, used as a shipping checkpoint and also have been a quarantine station for the Bubonic Plague. There was an asylum of a psychiatric hospital that got closed down in 1968, and the island was abandoned. There was a rumor 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 for long term rent (99 years) in 2014 hoping that someone would redevelop the land.
Trip Place 2 Vatican Secret Archives, Vatican City, Italy
A secret of Vatican City is buried deep within the walls of Vatican City, and mostly underground, are the Vatican Secret Archives, which consists of the immense history of the documents, state papers, papal account books, and other official correspondence, some of which reveals the facts of the eighth century. This also includes the exchange of letters from Michelangelo and Mary Queen of Scots while she was awaiting capital punishment, and King Henry VIII’s request for a marriage termination. The archives, which are the official property of the current pope, have been estimated to span over 52 miles of shelving with more than 35,000 items. Other than this a very few staff, taking care of the records are permitted and access is also strictly limited to qualified scholars from very selected higher education and research institutions, all of them to get the reach to have to undergo a rigorous access application process to be granted entry.
Trip Place 3 Heard Island Volcano, Australia
An Australian external territory, Heard Island Volcano is a barren volcanic Antarctic Island, situated in about two-thirds of the way between Madagascar and Antarctica. This place is one of the most remote places on earth. Geographically, it contains mountains in the landmass of 368-square-mile, has 41 glaciers and is also habitat to a collection of wildlife including penguins, seals, and marine birds. But the extremity is that in 2000, the University of Hawaii noticed a two-kilometer-long lava flow coming from the southwest side of Mawson’s Peak, it is 2,745-foot-high complex volcano which has been active ever since. In addition to the volcano and its dangers, the weather is also worse, it is extremely cold and the worst part is that one required to sail to any other major landmass with minimum two-week duration. So, these adverse conditions make this place awful to visit.
Trip Place 4 Snake Island, Brazil
Snake Island is located on the Brazilian coastline which is a 43-hectare island approximately 20 miles from the Sao Paulo shore. The island is a habitat of one of the globe’s most deadly species of snake; the Golden Lancehead Viper, whose venom can eat through flesh. There are approximately 4,000 of them lying freely on the island. Whatever the case is, the Brazilian government has prohibited any visitors from visiting there only with the exception for scientists, who gets a permit to study the snakes.
Trip Place 5 North Sentinel Island, Andaman Islands
This is a small, heavily forested island in the Bay of Bengal which is completely surrounded by coral reefs, making it hard to approach by boat. However, its prohibition is not the main obstacle to a visit rather it is inhabited by a small indigenous population known as the Sentinelese, who have rejected contact with all other peoples, they are among the world’s last communities to remain unaffected by modern civilization (10 World’s Best Places to Visit). In 2008, two fishermen whose boat accidentally got lost were reportedly killed by the tribe. And in the massive Indian Ocean earthquake, a tsunami in 2004, the research helicopters were attacked by the Sentinelese who was assessing the damage in the area. They had shot arrows and threw stones as the aircraft flew over the coastline.
Trip Place 6 Lascaux Caves, France
Lascaux Caves located in Northwestern France is a complex series of caves, is habitat to one of history’s most famous examples of Paleolithic cave paintings ever discovered. The prehistoric artwork portray mostly images of large animals that have been preserved through fossil remains to reveal the living species in the area at that time which is believed to be over 17,000 years old. The caves are in the name list of UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. However since 2008, the caves have been completely closed off to the public due to a fungal outbreak at that time. Only a few scientists are allowed to enter for just a few days a month in order to study the paintings.
Trip Place 7 Ise Grand Shrine, Japan
This is a Shinto shrine complex, located in the town of Uji-tachi in the Mie Prefecture of Japan, dedicated to the goddess Amaterasu-omikami. It consists of two main shrines and about 125 secondary shrines. It is very old said to date back to the third century, the standing structures have been dismantled and replaced every 20 years most recently it was done in 2013. This complex is still with Shinto beliefs regarding death and renewal. One of the main shrines is supposed to abode the ‘Sacred Mirror,’ called Yata no Kagami, part of the Imperial Regalia of Japan (10 World’s Best Places to Visit). From outside, things are not very clear except a little can be seen fence like and the buildings’ thatched roofs. The right of entry is constrained to just the high priestess or priest, who has to be a member of the Japanese Imperial Family.
Trip Place 8 Area 51, Nevada USA
Area 51 is one of the highly restricted places in the USA, it handles for a remote detachment of United States Air Force facility Edwards Air Force Base, located in Southern Nevada. The zone is covered in secrecy and is long believed to be a testing zone for experimental aircraft and weaponry, the U.S. government examines and stores a crashed alien spacecraft and the alien occupants, including evidence from a supposed alien crash landing in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. The attraction of this place is the area surrounding Area 51 is a popular tourist destination for extraterrestrial enthusiasts. But the access to Area 51 is strictly prohibited. Only the intelligence and military personnel have right to reach here. Not only the land area rather the airspace above the base is also not allowed and is supposed to be protected with anti-aircraft weaponry and fighter jets.
Trip Place 9 Tomb of the Qin Shi Huang, China
China’s first Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, who died in 210 BC, is buried deep beneath a hill in Central China and his tomb made here. The entombment compound consists of a complex network of underground caves that were filled with all the accessories the emperor would need in the afterlife, including clay reproductions of his armies, family, servants, horses, and staff, widely known as the Terracotta Army. It was initially discovered in 1974, and was found over 2,000 statues had been unearthed, each of them was completely unique, and experts believed that the nos. would exceed more than 8,000 in total, surrounding the central tomb; still much more has to be exposed (10 World’s Best Places to Visit). However, the Chinese government will never allow the interrogation of the emperor’s tomb, as a mark of respect and belief of the ancient burial rites. So when the tourists can catch a quick look of the emperor’s clay army during a site tour, the ancient warrior’s main tomb may remain unseen definitely.
Trip Place 10 Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a huge profound plant seed bank and contains the storage facility on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. It is 400 feet built into a mountainside and is approximately 800 miles from the North Pole. Officially it gets opened in February 2008, the facility now stores around 840,000 samples of 4000 different species of seeds, from all over the world. The idea behind the plant seed bank was to provide a safety net against unplanned loss of diversity in the case of major global or regional incidents. Several organizations or governments can ‘deposit’ seed variations in the vault for safekeeping. This storage role was to keep seeds safe so, it was more like a safety deposit box at the bank, allowing the access only to those who were the participants and only they can access to their deposits. The bank zone was spread in 11,000-square-foot and protected by highly advanced security systems and reach was strictly limited to a handful of employees. Still, things are continued as it was decided at that time.
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