Planning a holiday? These places are enticing because they are prohibited to the public!
You may want to add these to your bucket list of places to 'not' visit!
Spread all over the globe, they are forbidden for a reason.
This island off the coast of Brazil is also known as Snake Island because of its vast reptile inhabitation.
It is home to endangered pit vipers. In order to protect their population, visitors have been prohibited.
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Surtsey Island, Iceland
This is a volcanic island formed from 1963 to 1967, a little away from the south coast of Iceland.
According to UNESCO, The reason that visits to the island are prohibited is so that the island and its plants and animals will not be disturbed by humans.
This island is a part of India's union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This island is inhabited by the Sentinelese.
They vigorously reject contact with outsiders and thus the Indian government has declared it as an exclusion zone.
They are among the few people who have no contact with modern civilisation.
This is a Shinto shrine in Japan dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu.
It is a very holy site and while visitors are allowed to roam the forest, they do not have access beyond the thatched roofs of the central structures.
This island was a biological warfare test site in 1942.
Though the island was decontaminated by 1990, it is still prohibited to visitors as it contains a lot of anthrax in its soil.
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