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18 Forbidden Places You Can't Visit
Mental Floss ^ | Y MICHELE DEBCZAK

Posted on 07/07/2021 9:20:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin

1. ILHA DA QUEIMADA GRANDE ...home to a rare and incredibly deadly species of snake called the golden lancehead.

2. LASCAUX CAVE The sketches of horses, deer, and other animals date back to the Upper Paleolithic period...

3. ISE GRAND SHRINE Shinto shrine in Japan...

4. THE SVALBARD GLOBAL SEED VAULT

5. THE VATICAN'S SECRET ARCHIVES

6. COCA-COLA’S VAULT

7. ULURU (FORMERLY AYERS ROCK)

8. THE ISLAND OF SURTSEY It’s not every day that scientists get to study an island from the moment it emerges...

9. HEARD ISLAND, THE HOME OF MAWSON PEAK A 9000-foot-tall volcano on the island named Mawson Peak has been active since at least 2000...

10. MONTSERRAT’S DESIGNATED EXCLUSION ZONE

11. CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE Though it's still against the law to live there, you can take a day trip with a licensed guide.

12. AREA 51

13. NORTH KOREA’S ROOM 39 According to some defectors, it keeps foreign cash flowing into the pockets of elite officials.

14. THE ISLAND OF POVEGLIA Venetian island became a quarantine station in 1793, and for two decades it was a place for potential victims of the bubonic plague. So many people died there that up to 50 percent of the island’s soil is said to contain human remains.

15. NORTH BROTHER ISLAND Its most famous patient was Typhoid Mary...deserted island now serves a much happier purpose as a bird sanctuary.

16. HEART REEF As the name suggests, the reef is shaped like a heart... Divers and snorkelers have been banned from the spot to protect it from damage.

17. THE ETHIOPIAN CHURCH THAT CLAIMS TO HOLD THE ARK OF THE COVENANT

18. MAYA BAY Thailand made the decision to close Maya Bay in June 2018 to give the ecosystem a chance to recover.

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1 posted on 07/07/2021 9:20:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Is there a list of Forbidden Places that I CAN visit?


2 posted on 07/07/2021 9:23:18 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t forget the vault at Disney where they keep “Song of the South.”


3 posted on 07/07/2021 9:23:43 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yes.

But it’s a secret.


4 posted on 07/07/2021 9:25:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

They missed one. The room where they keep Biden’s medical records is off-limits too.


5 posted on 07/07/2021 9:25:44 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: BenLurkin

The Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.


6 posted on 07/07/2021 9:26:05 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: BenLurkin
ILHA DA QUEIMADA GRANDE
7 posted on 07/07/2021 9:29:13 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: BenLurkin

The US Capitol if you’re wearing a MAGA hat.


8 posted on 07/07/2021 9:30:06 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Disambiguator

The location of Obama’s real birth certificate.


9 posted on 07/07/2021 9:30:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

I read #5 as, THE VICTORIA’S SECRET ARCHIVE.

I’m both relieved and a little weirded out that I misread that.


10 posted on 07/07/2021 9:30:51 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: BenLurkin

19. New York

20. Chicago


11 posted on 07/07/2021 9:31:29 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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LASCAUX CAVE
12 posted on 07/07/2021 9:31:44 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: BenLurkin

How about the “Forbidden Zone” on the “Planet of the Apes”?


13 posted on 07/07/2021 9:32:34 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: BenLurkin
ISLE GRAND SHRINE
14 posted on 07/07/2021 9:33:47 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: BenLurkin
1. Golden Lancehead.

Don't worry...I won't!


15 posted on 07/07/2021 9:34:28 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: BenLurkin
Miami has man made heart reef.
16 posted on 07/07/2021 9:34:39 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Bonemaker
Don't worry - death is only a side effect.

Rare exceptions are made, mostly for scientists studying the species, but they have to be accompanied by a doctor—just in case.

You really want to hope that the Doc isn't the first one bitten...

17 posted on 07/07/2021 9:35:46 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: BenLurkin

Biden family ethics office.


18 posted on 07/07/2021 9:36:16 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Police should refuse duty at NBA venues. Let them wallow in their desired chaos without police.)
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To: BenLurkin
Yet they left out the Forbidden Isle.

They must have been forbidden from even mentioning it!

19 posted on 07/07/2021 9:36:47 AM PDT by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity-- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
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THE SVALBARD GLOBAL SEED VAULT
20 posted on 07/07/2021 9:36:51 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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