GFP Note: This article describes these 12 locations: Lascaux Caves in Southwest France, North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal, The Ise Grand Shrine, Club 33, Metro-2 (Beneath Moscow, Russia), Mount Weather, Vatican Secret Archives, White's Gentlemen's Club, Room 39 (Pyongyang, North Korea), RAF Menwith Hill, Coca-Cola's Recipe Vault, and Area 51.
Weather.com - Liz Burlingame, 8/29/13
Mount Weather, with the Shenandoah Valley in the background, near Bluemont, Va. Wikipedia.
State secrets, relics that need defense from humans and the elements, ultra-exclusive memberships — there are many reasons why places are marked off-limits.
And unless you're a high-ranking government official or royalty, there are just some places that most of the world's population can't go. Even though we seriously want to.
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