5 Places Where Humans Are Not Allowed To Go

Planning your next holiday? Here are 5 places you are absolutely, definitely, not allowed to visit nor would you want to after you’ve read this list.

# Snake Island, Australia

About 90 miles from the city of São Paulo lies Ilha de Queimada Grande, or “Snake Island” — a place so filled with venomous serpents that it’s been called one of the world’s deadliest islands. Scientists estimate that up to 4,000 snakes live on the 110-acre island — that’s one snake for every six square yards.

And these aren’t just any snakes. Queimada Grande is the only known home of the golden lancehead, one of the most venomous vipers in the world. The snake’s venom is said to be three to five times stronger than that of any mainland snake. Oh, and it’s capable of melting human flesh. Currently, the Brazilian Navy bans civilians from the island, though scientists sometimes receive waivers.

# Aokigahara Forest, Japan

Northwest of the majestic Mount Fuji is the sprawling 13.5 square miles of Aokigahara, a forest so thick with foliage that it's known as the Sea of Trees. But it's the Japanese landmark's horrific history that made the woods a fitting location for the spooky horror film The Forest. Untold visitors have chosen this place, notoriously called The Suicide Forest, as the setting for their final moments, walking in with no intention of ever walking back out.

# Area 51, US

The US is renowned for being highly secretive. But the efforts around Area 51, situated in Nevada, is on another level. The base’s current primary purpose is publicly unknown, but is is commonly thought to be used to develop and test experimental aircraft and weapons systems. Many conspiracy theorists believe the area houses UFOs and that aliens are studied here, but with no civilians able to enter, we will never know.

# Moscow Metro 2

Metro-2 (?????-2) is a secret underground metro system which parallels the public Moscow Metro. It was built by Joseph Stalin and was code-named D-6 by the KGB. It is supposedly still operated by the Russian Ministry of Defence.

The length of Metro-2 is rumored to exceed that of the public Metro and it is said to connect the Kremlin with the Federal Security Service headquarters, in addition to other locations of national importance. The FSB or the Moscow Metro administration refuse to confirm or deny its existence to this very day.

# North Sentinal Island

This is one of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, where a group of indigenous people, the Sentinelese, live. Their population is estimated to be between 50 and 400 individuals. The Sentinelese reject any contact with other people, and are among the last people on earth to remain virtually untouched by modern civilisation.

Recent attempts to contact the tribe have been met with arrows and stones. More tragically, on 26 January 2006, two fishermen were killed when their boat drifted near the island.