World's Most Inaccessible Places

Formerly, this location housed the The North American Aerospace Defense Command exists.The Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado Springs, CO, operates as a military installation and bunker. It was built to withstand and deflect a 30 megaton nuclear explosion. (NORAD)The complex is nowan "alternate" command center for the Air Force. About 200 personnel maintain it.

During a nuclear war, this facility offers the most secure spot in the Western Hemisphere. It holds 1.5 million gallons of fresh water, a huge fuel reservoir, and filters to stop biological or nuclear contaminants. Get in, citizen!

The Global Seed Vault sits 800 miles from the North Pole on the Norwegian island of Svalbard. This imposing facility holds over 5,000 seed species (865,871 packets in January 2016) from around the world, including plants from North Korea. The vaultIt is intended.to be a backup plan to re-seed the world after global devastation (think Waterworld).Waterworld.If you can stomach it.

Everyone knows about Fort Knox (lots of gold in Kentucky, impossible to break into). But have you looked into howlocked-down that place really is?When the Treasury Department built it in 1936, the DepartmentFort Knox US Bullion Depository Kentucky is advertised.""It features electric fences, a moat, steel-and-concrete walls, a bombproof roof, poison-gas booby traps, and an emergency flooding system.

Add newer tech like video cameras and microphones, dedicated armed guards, mine fields, razor wire, andOver 30,000 Army units station themselves near Fort.mean you have perhaps the most secure spot in the world for holding gold.

Area 51 is legendary as a government-owned, impenetrable space, like Fort Knox (just swap UFO conspiracies for gold bullion). But the specifics of Area 51's security—what the public knows—are staggering: deadly forceArea 51 is authorized.against trespassers. Those loitering at the perimeter of the top secret military baseReport this.having their cameras confiscated by security teams, even on public land.

Air space above the base is restricted. On the ground, buried motion sensors keep unwanted visitors out. Whatever happens at Area 51, the government does not want the public to know.

Here iswhat you faceif you are a cartoon super villain trying to break into the New York City Federal Reserve Bank's gold vault: First, you must deal with the building's security system and the armed Federal Reserve police. Next, steel-reinforced walls surround the vault, which faces 24-hour surveillance and motion cameras.

Is that all? Not even closeThe Federal Reserve Bank Gold Vault holds a 90-ton.It contains a steel cylinder.This cylinder is encased in a 140-ton steel-and-concrete frame and locked with four steel bars, protecting the.This is the only entrance to the vault.Good luck at the entrance.

The Granite Mountain Records Vault was built by theChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1965.Granite Mountain Records VaultThe Granite Mountain Records Vault sits 600 feet into a mountain in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, near Salt Lake City. The public cannot enter.The church states that the vault holds 3.5 billion images and records important to the church, mostly for genealogy.The Granite Mountain Records Vault holds 3.5 billion images and records important to the church, mainly for genealogy. They claim they have nothing to hide.

.The Vatican holds documents called "secret" ones. The Catholic Church explains quickly that these are private documents owned by the current Pope, dating to the 8th Century. While well-guarded, some documents allow access for scholars after 1939.About 100 miles north of Manhattan, in Germantown, NY, is the Iron Mountain Vault.

The Catholic Church's so-called "secret" documents are accessed by qualifying scholars only after 1939.State records, including birth and death certificates, reside here due to state laws requiring indefinite keeping.Two of the world's most inaccessible places house items people avoid for even a second: smallpox. Infected people develop pustules that split the skin horizontally, making the body look like a cobbled stone street. Skin falls off, and they die, except in rare cases where they live as walking scars.Scientists still lack clarity on how the virus kills people. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, GA, and the State Research Institute of Virology and Biotechnology near Novosibirsk, Siberia, maintain samples of the virus for vaccine development and study.Qualifying scholars access the Vatican's "secret" documents after 1939.

The Iron Mountain Vault sits about 100 miles north of Manhattan in Germantown, NY.Iron Mountain VaultThis facility is the world's largest underground storage. It spans 95 acres with 220 vaults across seven stories. The vaults resist water and fire. Entry needs a 28-ton, triple time-locked door.

State records, like birth and death certificates, are stored here due to state laws requiring indefinite keeping.

Two of the world's most inaccessible places house things people do not want exposed for a second: smallpox.smallpoxInfected people develop pustules that split the skin horizontally, making the body look like a cobbled stone street. Their skin falls off, and they die, except in rare cases where they live as a walking scar.a cobbled stone streetThe skin falls off, and the person dies, unless they live as a walking scar.

Scientists still need to study the virus to develop vaccines, even though smallpox was eradicated in 1979. Researchers remain unclear on how it kills.howThe Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, GA, and the State Research Institute of Virology and Biotechnology outside Novosibirsk, Siberia, study the virus.The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, GA, and the State Research Institute of Virology and Biotechnology outside Novosibirsk, Siberia, house the smallpox virus. These are the only two places globally known to hold it.

A major gold dealer stores its bullion at the Singapore FreePort.high-security facilityasbig as six football fieldsDeutsche Bank keeps $8.9 billion in gold at the "tax-free Fort Knox" at the Singapore FreePort, along with art, jewels, and wine.

Under the Bank of England's HQ in London sits4,600 tons of goldBombproof walls protect the gold at the Bank of England. Access requires comically large three-foot keys, which need a voice-recognition password to work.

Known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," theADX Florence supermax prison in FlorenceADX Florence Prison is one of the most secure places on Earth. It holds America's most dangerous criminals, including Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, plus several foreign terrorists.

Twelve-foot fences topped with razor wire surround the facility. This design stops prisoners from knowing their location relative to the outside, blocking escape plans.

A restaurant re-opening after a health code violation shut it down seems cleaner than anything. A diamond vault after a $100 million heist faces the same. Extra security measures make the Antwerp Diamond Center in Belgium one of the planet's safest places.

After an expert diamond heist in 2003, the perpetrators...somehow got past...got past infrared heat detectors, a seismic sensor, Doppler radar, a magnetic field, and a lock with 100 million combinations. The owners likely learned their lesson.The owners likely learned their lesson after the thieves bypassed infrared heat detectors, a seismic sensor, Doppler radar, a magnetic field, and a lock with 100 million possible combinations.

Whistleblower website Wikileaks.relies on servers housed in the Pionen Bunker, a Cold War-era nuclear bunker in downtown Stockholm.The Pionen Bunker houses servers in a Cold War-era nuclear bunker downtown Stockholm. To disrupt Wikileaks' efforts, you must pass the half-meter thick metal doors.

Bahnhof, the Swedish broadband provider that owns the bunker, uses backup generators recycled from old German submarines for extra protection.

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's writings are allegedly...inscribed on gold disks held in titanium caskets.The Trementina Base, located in an underground bunker near Trementina, NM, is accessible by private airstrip. The base is locked down tight and built to survive a nuclear blast.

Massive symbols resembling crop circles sit on the desert floor outside the bunker. When the media spotted these huge symbols in 2005, the church tried to stop the story. It turns out that...the symbols are meant...for either (1) Scientologists returning to Earth after fleeing a future Armageddon to find Hubbard's works, or (2) for the spirit of...a young, reincarnated L. Ron Hubbard.to use...He needs to find his way home.