This photo of a Yanomami village was captured by a helicopter. The villagers had probably never seen an aircraft before, as they were one of the most remote groups of people in the world. They are pictured here staring in wonder at the helicopter, probably positive they were gazing up at extraterrestrial beings from outer space.
The village is located on the Brazilian side of the Brazil-Venezuela border. Just think of it. You travel all the way to the south continent, you plan your trip in advance, and then discover no one is going to let you in. Next time, plan better.
The Mormon Church Secret Vault
Just a short distance outside of Salt Lake City and one mile up Little Cottonwood Canyon lies Granite Mountain. Ironically, and despite its name, the place is composed mostly of quartz monzonite. Excavated 600 feet into the north side of Little Cottonwood Canyon is the Granite Mountains Record Vault, which the Mormon Church has ownership of.
A second vault is located two miles further up the canyon. But this vault is owned and run by Perpetual Storage Inc., and its purpose is for-profit. The vault serves multiple purposes, such as storage for records, a center for administrative offices, shipping and receiving docks, and a laboratory for restoring microfilm.
Granite Mountain Vault
Records stored in the Mormon Church’s Granite Mountain Record Vault include 2.4 million rolls of microfilm with around 3.5 billion images of family history and genealogical records. The vault's microfilm library increases yearly by up to 40,000 rolls. Now you know that when the Mormon Church says they’re a family-centered faith, they are by no means joking.
For clear security reasons, accessing the Granite Mountain Vault is forbidden. No matter how hard strong believers and regular curious people like you and us have tried, the no-entry sign is still standing high. Maybe in years to come, when there is world peace, they will be access to this place, too.
Zone Rouge
The Zone Rouge, which means “The Red Zone,” is a group of off-limits areas located in the northeastern part of France. The French government blocked off these areas following WWI and never re-opened some of them back to the public. The areas were deemed too damaged by the war to be appropriate for human use.
Zone Rough is 460 square miles and was destroyed and damaged following human conflicts. Instead of cleaning up the battlefield and coming to some sort of agreement, the French government decided to let the area go back to nature and allow it to go wild.
Return to Nature
Instead of trying to revive the land, the French government decided to block it off to humans and return it to nature. It closed it off and let nature be in charge. The Zone Rouge is rumored to have had a considerable amount of human and animal remains on the land.
Its danger lies in the fact that millions of pieces of artillery are still scattered about. Towns in the Zone have never been rebuilt for obvious reasons. Maybe one day, the French authorities will decide to bring this piece of land back to life, but until then, it is off-limits.