Thread: Top 10 Places You CAN'T Go In The World

5. Area 51

I have put this so high on the list because it is the one place most readers are likely to expect to see. 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. Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large secretive military airfield. The base’s primary purpose is to support development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems. The intense secrecy surrounding the base, the very existence of which the U.S. government barely acknowledges, has made it the frequent subject of conspiracy theories and a central component to unidentified flying object (UFO) folklore. The sign above states that deadly force can be used if people enter the Area 51 zone.

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

Originally Posted by Toker

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

Originally Posted by Adretheon

Why's there 2 threads?

But cool

and where are you getting this stuff?

plagiarist

2nd thread twas mistake. Um...... I said I found a pretty cool list and I'd like to share it with you guys... MMMMMKAYY

yeah, and you ripped it off of some other site's work.

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHMA_enUS342US342&sourceid=chrome&ie =UTF-8&q=Metro-2+in+Moscow,+Russia+is+a+purported+secret+undergro und+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+th at+the+existence+of+Metro-2+is+neither+confirmed+nor+denied+by+the+Federal+S ecurity+Service+of+the+Russian+Federation+(FSB)+or +the+Moscow+Metro+administration.+The+length+of+Me tro-2+is+rumored+to+exceed+even+that+of+the+%E2%80%9Cc ivil%E2%80%9D+(i.e.+public)+Metro.+(It+is+said+to+ have+4+lines+and+lie+50+to+200+m+deep.+It+is+said+ to+connect+the+Kremlin+with+the+FSB+headquarters,+ the+governm

that's called plagirism.

So, I can't post this for others to see and include my source in the end like I do all my other threads?

moving on....


4. Room 39

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. Room 39 was established in the late 1970s. It has been described as the lynchpin of the North’s so-called “court economy” centered on the dynastic Kim family. It is unknown how the name originated. 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. 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 companies under its jurisdiction and is under the direct control of Kim Jong-il. North Korea has denied taking part in any illegal activities. Room 39 is believed to be located inside a ruling Workers’ Party building in Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea.

3. Ise Grand Shrine

The Ise Grand Shrine in Japan (which is actually a series of over 100 shrines) is the most sacred shrine in Japan. It is dedicated to Amaterasu (the Sun goddess) and has been in existence since 4BC. The main shrine is alleged to hold the most important item in Japan’s imperial history: the Naik? (the mirror from Japanese mythology which eventually ended up in the hands of the first emperors). The shrine is demolished and rebuilt every 20 years in keeping with the Shinto idea of death and rebirth (the next rebuilding will be in 2013). 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. So unless we have a Japanese prince or princess reading the site, no one here will ever see anything more than the thatched roof of the Ise Grand Shrine.

2. Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center

This is a place that is not only closed to the public, but it is a place that the public hope to never have to enter! 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. It is a “last hope” area. For obvious reasons its operations are highly classified. It is run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The center is already functioning and even in small local disasters in the US, much of the telecommunications traffic is routed through it.

1. RAF Menwith Hill

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.

source: http://www.cracktwo.com/2010/01/top-...-in-world.html

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

and where are you getting this stuff?

plagiarist

Chill out big guy... :5

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

Usually, you'd start with the source.

Actually most people quote the article and then link the source below it. Mine happened to be split between 10 posts, so it took a little while. I thought by stating, "here's a list I found," using quotes, and eventually putting the source in (once I was done), it would be apparent that this wasn't MY hand written list.

That's ok though, you can call me names right off the bat... Only you tho.

Originally Posted by Blakeman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navassa_Island




You have to get permission to land here from a park ranger in Puerto Rico who seems to not let anyone land. It is just south of Cuba, east of Jamaica and west of Haiti.

If you want to blow a half hour, look up the territories that the U.S. has control of and see all these neat Carribean and Pacific tiny islands with old military runways on them.

Hmmm.... That's pretty cool and I will probably blow more than half an hour now.



Another cool one is Niihau (The Forbidden Isle), which my wife talks about from time to time. She has all sorts of great Hawaiian folk tales and factual stories she shares with me...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau



Last year when we visited Kaui, I remember staring over the ocean to Niihau. Something fascinating about seeing a place from a distance, but knowing you are not allowed to go there...

I'm in an exploration mood, post some up people!