there are some places you definitely
don’t want to put on your bucket list
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
forbidden tourist attractions
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
channel and ring the bell
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for this list we’re looking at places
but sound cool and interesting to visit
but are sadly off-limits to tourists for
one reason or another number 10 le ah da
Kumada Ganji also known as snake island
Sao Paulo Brazil would be visitors be
warned this island’s name is not a
misnomer or just a colorful nickname
with an estimated 3000 specimens living
on the island this small chunk of land
has the highest concentration of
venomous snakes in the world
situated in the Atlantic Ocean off the
coast of Brazil snake island is almost
exclusively visited by scientists
interested in studying the local
wildlife
because rising water levels cut the
island off from the mainland today it’s
completely overrun by the critically
endangered yet extremely venomous golden
lancehead pit viper if bitten symptoms
attributed to its venom range from
innocuous swelling to deadly brain
hemorrhage and the premature death of
vital tissue given that there are also
no hospitals on snake island being
bitten out there is pretty much a death
sentence unless you bring your own
doctor of course this is like the worst
place I’ve ever been it’s like literally
it’s like humans don’t come here number
9 Bohemian Grove Monte Rio California
public imagination is awash with stories
of secret societies but one very real
organization does exist and holds its
meetings in the isolated Bohemian Grove
in rural California this high society
summer camp is a playground for the
world’s elite having boasted members
like former US presidents Richard Nixon
and Ronald Reagan at its height there is
said to be more than 2000 men who attend
and as you can imagine they are well
protected by a trove of police taking
place in mid-july the encampments last
two weeks with infiltrators describing
bizarre owl centered rituals and plays
performed for the entertainment of other
the all-male membership can also use the
facilities for private meetings like a
1942 conference concerning the Manhattan
Project and while women children and
non-members are allowed on the grounds
they must be gone by nightfall and
cannot attend the mysterious July
encampments number eight Nihao also
known as the forbidden isle hawaii USA
many people joke about buying their own
tropical island if they had the money
well in 1864 that dream became a reality
for the Sinclair family whose
descendants are now called the Robinsons
this island was sold to Elizabeth
Sinclair by King Kamehameha v with
strict instructions to preserve the
native Niihau and way of life the
Robinsons have restricted outside access
to it ever since doing what they can to
keep their promise to the king it was a
privately owned Island and so nobody is
allowed to come on here although the
Robinsons have allowed some limited
access to outsiders since 1987 it
remains difficult to get permission to
visit and so Nihao is still nicknamed
the forbidden Isle number seven sorts a
vestment Eyre archipelago Iceland named
for the Norse fire Giants or Thor and
roughly half a square mile in surface
area sort C is a hotspot for geological
activity the Icelandic Island was born
in the 1960s thanks to a volcano with
the underwater eruption that created it
lasting more than three years from
November 1963 to June 1967 because of
the relative rarity of a new Island
popping up pretty much out of nowhere
and to ensure that as few outside forces
affect the islands ecological makeup as
possible only scientists may visit these
researchers are studying how life
establishes itself on a new land mass
with sort c currently being inhabited by
many seabirds plants and seals number
six Poveglia the venetian lagoon italy
dubbed the most haunted place in the
world by some bovania island was
regularly inhabited until the 14th
century and eventually served to defend
Venice but after that it all went
downhill
the island was used predominantly to
quarantine plague victims on mass and
burned the corpses
is an abandoned island that legend says
was formed by the ashes of the thousands
upon thousands infected by the bubonic
plague then in the 1920s if he came an
insane asylum run by a mad doctor who
ultimately committed suicide by jumping
from the site’s bell tower why he said
the ghosts drove him insane today it
stands empty and dilapidated and the
Venetian authorities don’t exactly
encourage public access though it does
fascinate paranormal investigators and
Ghost Hunters alike some may doubt its
haunted but it sure looks the part
his static night-vision camera back in
the hospital room captured what appears
to be a black mist manifesting and then
disappearing into thin air and at the
same time you can hear an unexplained
number five Svalbard global Seed Vault
Spitsbergen Norway one of the most
secure places on earth is this location
nicknamed the Doomsday Seed Vault
located on an isolated Norwegian island
in the Arctic Circle the vault contains
samples of as many seeds and plants that
exist on the planet as the researchers
there can acquire I’m quite good feeling
when I’m in here and know that this is a
resource that the future will need seed
goes extinct every day the idea is that
in the event of a global catastrophe or
apocalyptic event these important seeds
and genomes will be preserved for
humanity’s future use like they build
the tunnels in the Alps with a big
machine fix a big excavator took about
two years to build and it’s built to
last for there a long time as of 2018 it
only stored about 900 thousand samples
but it has the potential to store as
many as four and a half million
hopefully safeguarding Earth’s ecology
from disaster anyway as you can imagine
visits to the Seed Vault
are pretty much entirely off limits for
obvious security reasons number four the
Chapel of the tablet Aksum Ethiopia the
Ark of the Covenant is the legendary
item that apparently contained the Ten
Commandments the Ark of the Covenant the
chest the Hebrews used to carry around
the Ten Commandments and today it
supposedly kept safe and sound in a
chapel in the Ethiopian Church of Our
Lady Mary of Zion this house of worship
has existed in some form since the 4th
century and it’s monks are tasked with
guarding the Ark day and night for life
and where is the Ark of the Covenant
well the Ethiopians both Christians and
Jewish oath the Ethiopians believe
that’s in a church in Ethiopia however
no one except one Guardian monk each
generation has ever been allowed to see
the ark itself casting doubt on their
claims
what’s more only men can enter the old
church although if the real Ark is is
face meltingly awesome as its cinematic
counterpart are pretty sure even they’d
be happy to keep their distance
number 3 last goal caves molten yak
France discovered in 1940 this complex
cave network is decorated with more than
600 primeval paintings by ancient cave
people
picking various plants and animals these
works of art are thought to be roughly
17,000 years old obviously this
fascinating find intrigued the masses
and once they were open to the public in
1948 they began receiving over a
thousand sightseers per day sadly with
them these visitors brought carbon
dioxide humidity and other pollutants
that severely damaged the images the
famous cave of Lascaux had to be shut
down because the breath of scores of
tourists has caused mold to grow on the
walls in 1963 the caves were closed to
anyone except restoration workers and
archeologists though a replica was
constructed for tourists to visit in the
early 1980s today due to further
deterioration the Lascaux caves are even
restricted to preservationist s– number
two North Sentinel island Andaman
Islands the cliche of undiscovered
tribes living in the wilderness and
attacking foreigners on sight is alive
and well when it comes to North Sentinel
island this is technically an Indian
territory and the Indian government
makes it clear that anybody who ventures
to North Sentinel island does so at
their own risk permission has very
rarely been granted to visit the tribal
areas this is because the native people
are the most isolated group on the
planet and they’ve been known to
violently attack and sometimes kill
those who try to have contact with them
whenever we try to approach them they
were ready with their bows and arrows
and they were firing away arrows at our
boat and aiming at the people who are
making wrong kind of gestures the island
is almost entirely untouched by modern
civilization and the Sentinelese will do
anything to keep it that way before we
unveil our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions these are the reading
rooms of the Vatican archives every year
some 1,500 scientists from all over the
world come here to do research but this
[Music]
the explosions that Rupp did from the
Chernobyl reactor vessel and the
constant fire that continued for ten
days or so resulted in large amounts of
radioactive materials being released
into the environment evacuation of
pre-pre act took place the day after
number one area 51 Lincoln County Nevada
USA probably the most mysterious place
in America area 51 has captured the
public’s interest ever since stories
about UFOs and aliens began to surface
in the mid 20th century this space
didn’t have its existence formally
acknowledged by the CIA until 2013 when
a Freedom of Information Act request for
documents finally forced the government
to declassify papers pertaining to the
remote spot according to these documents
the bases purpose was to test
experimental planes during the Cold War
and not to hide evidence of aliens as is
popularly thought though this hasn’t
stopped people from speculating
trespassing here could result in you
being arrested or worse shot by US
soldiers for your trouble do you agree
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and be sure
to subscribe and ring the bell to be
[Music] you
don’t want to put on your bucket list
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
forbidden tourist attractions
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
channel and ring the bell
to get notified about our latest videos
for this list we’re looking at places
but sound cool and interesting to visit
but are sadly off-limits to tourists for
one reason or another number 10 le ah da
Kumada Ganji also known as snake island
Sao Paulo Brazil would be visitors be
warned this island’s name is not a
misnomer or just a colorful nickname
with an estimated 3000 specimens living
on the island this small chunk of land
has the highest concentration of
venomous snakes in the world
situated in the Atlantic Ocean off the
coast of Brazil snake island is almost
exclusively visited by scientists
interested in studying the local
wildlife
because rising water levels cut the
island off from the mainland today it’s
completely overrun by the critically
endangered yet extremely venomous golden
lancehead pit viper if bitten symptoms
attributed to its venom range from
innocuous swelling to deadly brain
hemorrhage and the premature death of
vital tissue given that there are also
no hospitals on snake island being
bitten out there is pretty much a death
sentence unless you bring your own
doctor of course this is like the worst
place I’ve ever been it’s like literally
it’s like humans don’t come here number
9 Bohemian Grove Monte Rio California
public imagination is awash with stories
of secret societies but one very real
organization does exist and holds its
meetings in the isolated Bohemian Grove
in rural California this high society
summer camp is a playground for the
world’s elite having boasted members
like former US presidents Richard Nixon
and Ronald Reagan at its height there is
said to be more than 2000 men who attend
and as you can imagine they are well
protected by a trove of police taking
place in mid-july the encampments last
two weeks with infiltrators describing
bizarre owl centered rituals and plays
performed for the entertainment of other
the all-male membership can also use the
facilities for private meetings like a
1942 conference concerning the Manhattan
Project and while women children and
non-members are allowed on the grounds
they must be gone by nightfall and
cannot attend the mysterious July
encampments number eight Nihao also
known as the forbidden isle hawaii USA
many people joke about buying their own
tropical island if they had the money
well in 1864 that dream became a reality
for the Sinclair family whose
descendants are now called the Robinsons
this island was sold to Elizabeth
Sinclair by King Kamehameha v with
strict instructions to preserve the
native Niihau and way of life the
Robinsons have restricted outside access
to it ever since doing what they can to
keep their promise to the king it was a
privately owned Island and so nobody is
allowed to come on here although the
Robinsons have allowed some limited
access to outsiders since 1987 it
remains difficult to get permission to
visit and so Nihao is still nicknamed
the forbidden Isle number seven sorts a
vestment Eyre archipelago Iceland named
for the Norse fire Giants or Thor and
roughly half a square mile in surface
area sort C is a hotspot for geological
activity the Icelandic Island was born
in the 1960s thanks to a volcano with
the underwater eruption that created it
lasting more than three years from
November 1963 to June 1967 because of
the relative rarity of a new Island
popping up pretty much out of nowhere
and to ensure that as few outside forces
affect the islands ecological makeup as
possible only scientists may visit these
researchers are studying how life
establishes itself on a new land mass
with sort c currently being inhabited by
many seabirds plants and seals number
six Poveglia the venetian lagoon italy
dubbed the most haunted place in the
world by some bovania island was
regularly inhabited until the 14th
century and eventually served to defend
Venice but after that it all went
downhill
the island was used predominantly to
quarantine plague victims on mass and
burned the corpses
is an abandoned island that legend says
was formed by the ashes of the thousands
upon thousands infected by the bubonic
plague then in the 1920s if he came an
insane asylum run by a mad doctor who
ultimately committed suicide by jumping
from the site’s bell tower why he said
the ghosts drove him insane today it
stands empty and dilapidated and the
Venetian authorities don’t exactly
encourage public access though it does
fascinate paranormal investigators and
Ghost Hunters alike some may doubt its
haunted but it sure looks the part
his static night-vision camera back in
the hospital room captured what appears
to be a black mist manifesting and then
disappearing into thin air and at the
same time you can hear an unexplained
number five Svalbard global Seed Vault
Spitsbergen Norway one of the most
secure places on earth is this location
nicknamed the Doomsday Seed Vault
located on an isolated Norwegian island
in the Arctic Circle the vault contains
samples of as many seeds and plants that
exist on the planet as the researchers
there can acquire I’m quite good feeling
when I’m in here and know that this is a
resource that the future will need seed
goes extinct every day the idea is that
in the event of a global catastrophe or
apocalyptic event these important seeds
and genomes will be preserved for
humanity’s future use like they build
the tunnels in the Alps with a big
machine fix a big excavator took about
two years to build and it’s built to
last for there a long time as of 2018 it
only stored about 900 thousand samples
but it has the potential to store as
many as four and a half million
hopefully safeguarding Earth’s ecology
from disaster anyway as you can imagine
visits to the Seed Vault
are pretty much entirely off limits for
obvious security reasons number four the
Chapel of the tablet Aksum Ethiopia the
Ark of the Covenant is the legendary
item that apparently contained the Ten
Commandments the Ark of the Covenant the
chest the Hebrews used to carry around
the Ten Commandments and today it
supposedly kept safe and sound in a
chapel in the Ethiopian Church of Our
Lady Mary of Zion this house of worship
has existed in some form since the 4th
century and it’s monks are tasked with
guarding the Ark day and night for life
and where is the Ark of the Covenant
well the Ethiopians both Christians and
Jewish oath the Ethiopians believe
that’s in a church in Ethiopia however
no one except one Guardian monk each
generation has ever been allowed to see
the ark itself casting doubt on their
claims
what’s more only men can enter the old
church although if the real Ark is is
face meltingly awesome as its cinematic
counterpart are pretty sure even they’d
be happy to keep their distance
number 3 last goal caves molten yak
France discovered in 1940 this complex
cave network is decorated with more than
600 primeval paintings by ancient cave
people
picking various plants and animals these
works of art are thought to be roughly
17,000 years old obviously this
fascinating find intrigued the masses
and once they were open to the public in
1948 they began receiving over a
thousand sightseers per day sadly with
them these visitors brought carbon
dioxide humidity and other pollutants
that severely damaged the images the
famous cave of Lascaux had to be shut
down because the breath of scores of
tourists has caused mold to grow on the
walls in 1963 the caves were closed to
anyone except restoration workers and
archeologists though a replica was
constructed for tourists to visit in the
early 1980s today due to further
deterioration the Lascaux caves are even
restricted to preservationist s– number
two North Sentinel island Andaman
Islands the cliche of undiscovered
tribes living in the wilderness and
attacking foreigners on sight is alive
and well when it comes to North Sentinel
island this is technically an Indian
territory and the Indian government
makes it clear that anybody who ventures
to North Sentinel island does so at
their own risk permission has very
rarely been granted to visit the tribal
areas this is because the native people
are the most isolated group on the
planet and they’ve been known to
violently attack and sometimes kill
those who try to have contact with them
whenever we try to approach them they
were ready with their bows and arrows
and they were firing away arrows at our
boat and aiming at the people who are
making wrong kind of gestures the island
is almost entirely untouched by modern
civilization and the Sentinelese will do
anything to keep it that way before we
unveil our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions these are the reading
rooms of the Vatican archives every year
some 1,500 scientists from all over the
world come here to do research but this
[Music]
the explosions that Rupp did from the
Chernobyl reactor vessel and the
constant fire that continued for ten
days or so resulted in large amounts of
radioactive materials being released
into the environment evacuation of
pre-pre act took place the day after
number one area 51 Lincoln County Nevada
USA probably the most mysterious place
in America area 51 has captured the
public’s interest ever since stories
about UFOs and aliens began to surface
in the mid 20th century this space
didn’t have its existence formally
acknowledged by the CIA until 2013 when
a Freedom of Information Act request for
documents finally forced the government
to declassify papers pertaining to the
remote spot according to these documents
the bases purpose was to test
experimental planes during the Cold War
and not to hide evidence of aliens as is
popularly thought though this hasn’t
stopped people from speculating
trespassing here could result in you
being arrested or worse shot by US
soldiers for your trouble do you agree
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and be sure
to subscribe and ring the bell to be
[Music] you
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