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(#3) Fort Knox US Bullion Depository Kentucky
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Everyone's heard of Fort Knox (lots of gold, Kentucky, impossible to break into it), but have you ever looked into just how locked-down that place really is? When it was built in 1936, the Treasury Department advertised "electric fences, a moat, steel-and-concrete walls, a bombproof roof, poison-gas booby traps, and an emergency flooding system."
Add to that newer technology such as video cameras and microphones, the dedicated armed guards, mine fields, razor wire and 30,000+ Army units stationed in and around the Fort and you have perhaps the most secure spot in the world to hold your gold.
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(#4) Area 51
Like Fort Knox, Area 51 is legendary as a government-owned impenetrable space (just swap conspiracies about UFOs for gold bullion). But the specifics of Area 51's security - what the public knows about them, at least - are staggering: deadly force is authorized against trespassers, and those loitering at the perimeter of the top secret military base report having their cameras confiscated by security teams (even while on public land).
Air space above the base is restricted, and on the ground, buried motion sensors help keep unwanted visitors at bay. Whatever's happening at Area 51, it's safe to say that the government does not want the public to know about it.
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(#1) Cheyenne Mountain Complex
Formerly the home of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado Springs, CO, is a military installation and bunker built to withstand and deflect a 30 megaton nuclear explosion. Currently the complex is an "alternate" command center for the Air Force with a crew of 200 or so maintaining it.
In the event of a nuclear war, the facility is perhaps the most secure place to be in the Western Hemisphere, with a 1.5 million gallon reservoir of fresh water, a massive reservoir for fuel, filters to keep biological or nuclear contaminants from getting inside, and more. Good luck getting in, citizen!
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(#9) Iron Mountain Vault
About 100 miles north of Manhattan in Germantown, NY, sits the Iron Mountain Vault, the world's largest underground storage facility. It's a 95-acre facility with 220 separate vaults spread out over seven stories. How secure is it? The vaults are impervious to water and fire damage, among other natural disasters. Getting in requires making it through a 28-ton vault door that's triple time-locked.
State records, including birth and death certificates, are stored here (among other things), due to state statutes that require such documents be kept indefinitely.
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(#14) Singapore FreePort
One of the world's largest gold dealers stores its precious bullion at the Singapore FreePort, a high-security facility as big as six football fields with vault doors that weigh seven tons. Deutsche Bank stores $8.9 billion in gold at the "tax-free Fort Knox," alongside priceless works of art, jewels, and wine from around the world. -
(#7) Vatican Secret Archives
The Vatican's so-called "secret" documents, the Catholic Church is quick to explain, are actually just "private" documents, owned by the sitting Pope, dating back to the 8th Century. While well-guarded and secure, some of the documents can actually be accessed by qualifying scholars (just nothing after 1939).
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With nearly 7 billion people living on the earth, it has become more difficult to find primitive places on the earth. However, if you want to have an unforgettable adventure, there are still relatively few places on earth that are worth visiting. From the ice fields of Antarctica to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, these are the most inaccessible locations on earth, there are also some places without residents due to ecological problems or other reasons.
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