100 Places You Will Never Visit: The World's Most Secret Locations

100 Places You Will Never Visit: The World's Most Secret Locations

by Daniel Smith, Dan Smith
100 Places You Will Never Visit: The World's Most Secret Locations

100 Places You Will Never Visit: The World's Most Secret Locations

by Daniel Smith, Dan Smith

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Overview

Ever wondered what it takes to get into Fort Knox? Fancied a peek inside the Coca-Cola Safety Deposit Box? Would you dare to visit Three Mile Island?

The world is full of secret places that we either don't know about, or couldn't visit even if we wanted to. Now you can glimpse the Tora Bora caves in Afghanistan, visit the Tuscon Titan Missile Site, tour the Vatican Archives, or see the Chapel of the Ark. This fascinating guide book takes a look at 100 places around the world that are either so hard to reach, so closely guarded, or so secret that they are virtually impossible to visit any other way.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780875637
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Publication date: 09/27/2012
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 467,731
File size: 34 MB
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About the Author

Daniel Smith is an author and researcher. His books include 100 Places You Will Never Visit and three further titles in the same series, as well as The Sherlock Holmes Companion and a history of the Second World War Dig for Victory campaign. Daniel is also a long-time contributor to The Statesman's Yearbook, an annual geopolitical guide to the countries of the world. He lives in London.
Daniel Smith is the bestselling author of 100 Places You Will Never Visit, which has been translated into eight languages. He has written more than fifteen books, on subjects as diverse as Sherlock Holmes, cockney rhyming slang and the WWII Dig for Victory campaign. Daniel is also a long-time contributor to The Statesman's Yearbook, an annual geopolitical guide to the countries of the world. He lives in London.
Dan Smith grew up following his parents across the world to Africa, Indonesia and Brazil. He has been writing short stories for as long as he can remember and has been published in the anthology MATTER 4, shortlisted for the Royal Literary Fund mentor scheme, the Northern Writers Awards, the 2010 Brit Writers Published Author of the Year award and the Authors' Club First Novel award. He lives in Newcastle with his family. Find out more at www.dansmithsbooks.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

1 Wreck of Soviet Submarine K-129 12

2 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch 14

3 HAARP research station 16

4 Bohemian Grove 18

5 Skywalker Ranch 21

6 Google Data Center, The Dalles 22

7 Hawthorne Army Depot 24

8 The Skunk Works 26

9 US-Mexico drug smuggling tunnels 28

10 Area 51 30

11 Granite Mountain Records Vault 33

12 ADX Florence 36

13 DulceBase 39

14 Cheyenne Mountain Complex 42

15 Waste Isolation Pilot Plant 45

16 Forensic Anthropology Research Facility 48

17 Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility, Johnson Space Center 50

18 Fort Knox Bullion Depository 52

19 Coca-Cola's Recipe Vault 55

20 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 57

21 Iron Mountain, Boyers 60

22 Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center 62

23 Raven Rock Mountain Complex 64

24 CIA Headquarters 67

25 DARPA Headquarters 70

26 The Pentagon 72

27 The Oval Office 75

28 Centralia 78

29 Harvey Point Defense Testing Activity Facility 80

30 Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Vaults 82

31 AT&T Long Lines Building 84

32 The Tomb, Yale University 86

33 Air Force One 88

34 The Oak Island Money Pit 91

35 Guantanamo Bay Detention Center 94

36 Snake Island 97

37 Surtsey 98

38 The Royal Mint 101

39 Guardian Telephone Exchange 102

40 Government Communications Headquarters 104

41 Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down 106

42 RAF Menwith Hill 109

43 The Queen's bedroom, Buckingham Palace 112

44 MI5 Headquarters, Thames House 115

45 Whitehall tunnels 118

46 Bank of England vaults 120

47 PINDAR Bunker 123

48 Tower of London Jewel House 124

49 Rosslyn Chapel vaults 126

50 Wildenstein Art Collection 129

51 La Basse Cour 130

52 Bilderberg Group Headquarters 132

53 The Large Hadron Collider 133

56 Swiss Fort Knox 136

55 Bavarian Erdställe 138

56 The Amber Room 140

57 The Führerbunker 143

58 Vatican Secret Archives 146

59 Radio Liberty Building 149

60 Svalbard Global Seed Vault 150

61 Pionen White Mountains 153

62 Varosha 156

63 Gaza Strip Smuggling Tunnels 159

64 Mossad Headquarters 162

65 Negev Nuclear Research Center 164

66 Camp 1391 167

67 Al Kibar 168

68 The Ararat anomaly 170

69 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 172

70 UVB-76 transmitter 175

71 FSB Headquarters 176

72 Moscow Metro-2 178

73 Mount Yamantau 181

74 Hobyo 182

75 Chapel of the Ark of the Covenant 184

76 Fordo uranium enrichment plant 187

77 Tora Bora cave complex 190

78 Diego Garcia 193

79 Osama bin Laden's compound, Abbottabad 196

80 Line of Control 199

81 Temple Vaults, Sree Padmanabhaswamy 202

82 North Sentinel Island 204

83 Naypyidaw 206

84 Bang Kwang Central Prison 209

85 Gobi Desert unidentified structures 210

86 Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center 212

87 The Tomb of Qin Shi Huang 215

88 Hainan submarine base 218

89 The Tomb of Genghis Khan 220

90 Chinese Information Security Base 222

91 Room 39 224

92 Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center 227

93 Mount Baekdu hideout 230

94 Korean Demilitarized Zone 232

95 Camp 22 235

96 Ise Grand Shrine 236

97 Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant 239

98 Woomera Prohibited Area 242

99 Pine Gap Joint Defence Facility 245

100 Headquarters of Joint Operational Command 248

Index 250

Acknowledgments 255

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