10 awesome places around the globe prohibited for visit

New Delhi: Some places around the world, are as awesome as they can be but restricted from public due to various reasons. Be it privacy issues, maintenance or protecting highly confidential information to be leaked, these places have been a subject of study for researchers, gossips for common man and a topic for discussion for the media. Here is a list of 10 such places: 1. Lascaux caves, FranceThese caves are famous for Paleolithic paintings which are approximately 17,300 years old. These caves are restricted for public use since 1963.They are a UNSECO World heritage site and only a guard enters the caves once a week for a few minutes.This is so because any human intervention is considered destructive for the place which has precious fossil evidence. 2. Poveglia, ItalySpeculated as a haunted place due to its history of deaths of humans, it is a small island in Northern Italy near Venice.The place has been a dumping ground of dead bodies. This is because in 1348, Bubonic Plague spread in Venice and Povelgia. The people of Venice who were affected by the disease were taken to Povelgia and were burnt. The dead and the dying both were burnt even if they could survive.Again, in 1630, the pyre was burnt when Black Death swept the island.The island became a quarantine colony again in the 20th century.In 1922 the existing buildings were converted into a hospital for the mentally ill. This went on until 1968, when the hospital was closed and the island once again became uninhabited.Legends surround the island of haunting by the victims of plague and war, as well as a crazy doctor of the mental institution who supposedly butchered and tortured patients.Today, the island is closed to locals and tourists. In recent years, Italian construction crews attempted to restore the former hospital building, but unexpectedly stopped without reason. 3. The Vatican Secret Archives, Vatican City The Vatican Secret Archives contain state papers, correspondence, papal account books which the Church has accumulated over centuries and are prohibited for use for general public. In the 17th century, under the orders of Pope Paul V, the Secret Archives were separated from the Vatican Library, where scholars had some very limited access to them 4. Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, Ethiopia A Church in the Axum town of Ethiopia, people are not allowed to visit because it contains Christians' most important object, Ark of the Covenent.A monk is chosen specially to take care of the object and everyone else is restricted to enter the Church. 5. The Jiangsu National Security Education Museum, China Built in China's Jiangsu province, the museum is a spy museum and has documents and gadgets dating from 1927, when the Communist Party's Central Committee espionage department was founded, to the 1980s. Only Chinese nationals are allowed to visit the museum and any foreigner is banned to enter due to the secret information inside the museum. 6. Niihau, Hawaiin Islands, US Owned by Aubrey Robinson, who had inherited the islands form his grandfather, Elizabeth Sinclair in 1915, the island is the seventh largest of the inhabited Hawaiian Islands.The island is not developed, there are no schools, restaurants or any sign of urbanization. No one is allowed to visit the island except owner's friends and relatives. 7. Pine Gap, Australia Run by the Central Intelligence Agency an Australia, Pine Gap is a satellite tracking station.It is a part of the global surveillance program ECHELON.The facility consists of a large computer complex with 14 radomes protecting the antennae. It has over 800 employees.The location is strategically significant because it controls America's spy satellites as they pass over the third of the globe which includes China, parts of Russia, and Middle East oil fields. Central Australia was chosen because it was too remote for spy ships passing in international waters to intercept the signal. 8. The Negev Nuclear Research Center, Israel Located in the Negev Desert, Israel, it is a nuclear installation where people are not allowed to enter due to the highly classified information inside the place. However, in 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician at Dimona, fled to the United Kingdom and revealed to the media some evidence of Israel's nuclear program and explained the purpose of each building, also revealing a top-secret underground facility directly below the installation.The area is heavily guarded. 9. Ise Grand Shrine, Japan A shrine of the goddess Amaterasu-ōmikami, public entry ids restricted and only a priest is allowed to enter inside.The Ise Grand Shrine consists of two shrines: Naiku, or the ‘Inner Shrine,' and Geku, or the ‘Outer Shrine' 10. Metro-2, Russia It is an alleged secret underground metro system in Russia, operated by the Main Directorate of Special Programs and the Ministry of Defense.The length of Metro-2 is rumored to exceed that of the public Metro. It is said to connect the Kremlin with the Federal Security Service (FSB) headquarters, the government airport at Vnukovo-2, and an underground town at Ramenki, in addition to other locations of national importance.Russian journalists have reported that the existence of Metro-2 is neither confirmed nor denied by the FSB or the Moscow Metro administration.