15 MOST Illegal Places to Visit on Earth 

Have you been to any of these places before? Let us know in the comments!

According to the judge at my trial... It's quite illegal to visit warehouses at night with lock cutting equipment...

I am glad the Sentinlese are left alone, but amazing to think of people who live a life-style from tens of thousands of years ago, with no awareness of what else is out there in the modern world.

Fun fact: In 1981 a ship full of iron was stranded in the northern west Coast of Sentinel Island, and can be seen on Google Earth today :)

I climbed up Chichen Itza when I was 14ish. So maybe 87/88. There were no restrictions of climbing up to the top and the guide even encouraged a race between some people. On the top there was a person selling water bottles that were very expensive for the time. My mom bought one.

San Nicolas island, off of the Southern California coast, is a "semi forbidden" locations that I have visited. It's a military base, and as an archaeology student, I spent 6 weekends there doing site surveys and lab work (in the evenings). Very interesting place!

You guys should do a top 15 UNESCO world heritage sites video

Love all your drone shots!! Very cool.Love Tamsen in Riverside CA...

torally fascinating! thank you

I'm shocked not to see Area-51 not added to the list. 👽🚫✋

Thanks for planning my next roadtrip bro.

I envy the Tribes people from North Sentinel Island , to not of ever been subjected to this superficial world & not know what are Kartrashian / Jenner is . What absolute bliss !

Just a clarification point on Uluru / Ayres Rock in Australia. You are very welcome to visit and even touch the rock with new trails around it as well as the Olga's which is another rock formation about 10 km away. There are daily tours and yes you can't just walk around it by yourself and need to undertake one of the tours, it is still a very popular resort to stay, so saying it is an illegal place to visit is not technically correct. The only thing which is now illegal that wasn't before is climbing the rock to its summit (which you did mention in your video) :-) In South Australia there is a massive area that covers most of the internal half to lower left side known as the Woomera Prohibited zone, but it encompasses aboriginal lands all the way across to Emu Fields and Maralinga (atomic test sites) - this massive millions of square miles area is completely illegal to visit. You can only drive the Stuart Highway (linking Adelaide and Darwin) through the centre, you are not allowed to deviate off the highway (other than of course for nearby towns, allowable road areas and accesses plus of course camping spots etc close to highway) Obviously there are many places in the world that are illegal to visit as they are former nuclear and atomic test sites.. Nevada, Area 51 etc. Let alone North Korea as a country!

My boyfriend was living on St Croix in '95 at the time of the Montserrat disaster. He was also there for the big hurricane that hit in the 90s as well. They had a lot of refugees come from Montserrat to St Croix, he related the pandemonium that occured. We were 18 that year.

Fascinating video! Thanks. :)

Many places in China are also highly restricted. To name a few, there are several mountain peaks in China that are banned from people climbing, such as the Meili peak. The reasons are religious.

4:30 incorrect. You can still visit Uluru. You can walk around the base and admire is stature. You just can not climb it any more as it's a sacred sites. Many who have taken rocks from this site soon post them back as misfortune follows them. 13:04 incorrect. The Australian inland Taipan has the most deadliest venom. One bite from the lancehead can kill 10 people, where the inland taipan bite can kill 280.. So while the Golden Lancehead is highly venomous, it is shadowed by the potency of the Taipan.

Loved this!!

I'm enjoying this video from my treehouse in North Sentinel Island.

Maybe I misunderstood you. You can still visit Uluru. Stand next to it, touch it and even walk around it. You just can't climb it anymore. I was fortunate to go there and at that time you still could climb it but signs asked tourists not to. My husband and I chose to respect their wishes and not climb. It was still a magical place to experience.

I climbed Ayers Rock in the eerly 90's. It's not a difficult climb. When you reached the highest point there's a small monument with a log book you can sign.

I'm not shedding a tear about never being in contact with the tribes from North Sentinel island. huh.

Oh it's an entrance to the underworld alright. Enter and you WILL go to the underworld...permanently 🤣

Ayers Rock is pronounced "Air's rock"

Crazy yall got Charlie Sheen to do the voice over!

Only one McDonald's fries could kill the whole tribe of the North Sentinel Island.

Also my yard. No one's allowed there without express permission

Can’t believe Charlie Sheen does small time you tube documentaries now.

there are many such a "closed towns" in Russia. Most of them are military/nuclear production sites. Some are established from the scratch, some are old towns just converted to such a facility. Usual Soviet practice was to name them by numbers (ie Arzamas-16 instead of real name Sarov), all these computer shooter game names like Gorky-40 originates from these official names.

In the late 80’s we flew from Canada to Mexico 🇲🇽 I climbed to the top of that pyramid in the Myan village, I was only 8 & so proud but the stairs are so small & steep not like regular stairs.. I got stuck & too scared to get down 🙈 the tour guide had to climb up to help me get down & wasn’t too impressed 😅 none of the adults climbed up, I definitely remember I was the only one brave (or stupid) enough cuz the stairs were SO steep!! 🙈🔺🏜️☀️🌄 I still remember feeling the heat HIT me like a little physically object when I stepped off the plane! I had never felt heat like that in my life, when I came home a month later my skin had turned “brown”! It was like I had changed nationalities 😅 it actually looked great till it started peeling off & I was left with brown & white patches all over my body 🙈 also since I wore sun glasses the whole time the skin around my eyes stayed white so I was like a reverse racoon! 🦝😸 my mom made me go to a 2 week camp like that & the stupid girls laughed at me & started a rumour I had a skin disease 😫😒😐

The north sentinel island had been visited during the colonial era. But interactions werent horrible and their people died. As a result, they shot on site anyone who approached the island. Over 100 years later, they havent forgotten.

Very informative

Been to Diego Garcia plenty, neat secluded place. However to most illegal place is not Diego but the waters outside the Atol. Even if you make it to Diego your not allowed in those waters. I’ve seen a few large tuna caught just offshore, but usually only half of the fish makes it to the boat.

Why not the International Seed Bank on Svalbard?

Sucks that Ayers Rock is off-limits now, would have loved to climb it! Super jealous of those who made it out there before 2019

Walked up the top of Chichen Itza Pyramid in 1983...near Cancun. Been to Diego Garcia Island 1993...US Navy Enlisted. ?????? (Thought you would mention N Korea Navy Bases or some Galapagos Islands instead.)

With North Sentinel, maybe some missionaries will want to make contact, like the guy who got killed when he went there a few years back.

Niʻihau isn’t one of the largest Hawaiian islands. Of the main Hawaiian islands, it’s one of the smallest. And it’s really not that mysterious or particularly “forbidden.” It’s just private property, and like any private property it’s not just free for anyone to visit whenever they want to without permission from the owners.

Uluru is not "completely closed off". Walking / climbing up it is now forbidden. All of the surrounding tracks and view points are open to tourists.

Does Charie Sheen do the narration for this channel?

amazing!!!

How can you pronounce Uluru and Ayers Rock wrong?

Poveglia (the pronunciation was not 100% correct, but never mind...) is technically off limits and there are no regular connections, but in Venice you can find many taxiboat drivers willing to take you there and then come back to pick you up after a couple of hours, if you accept their fare. I have seen a few videos and talked to some who visited it. There is still a belltower and some interesting old buildings, though in ruins. And of course, you need to be very careful and abstain from climbing upstairs, because if you have an accident there, nobody will rescue you. I'm not even sure that mobile phones work regularly there (they might, though, Venice is only a few miles away)

Ive been to Diego Garcia ...it was a while ago though i think 1979/1980 ...frankly theres not a lot there and i cant say i did much but i was there a short time...

I want to hear more about that last one. Have none of them fled to modern civilization? They've never heard of Coca Cola or McDonalds or Nike, etc... the advertising executives are failing!

I wish the government would leave me alone too.

My only wonder is why Dean Koontz or Mira Grant hasn't used Morgan Island for a series of books. :)

We have our own snake island it's called DC.

funny thing about diego garcia is that its still british and any mission launched from there by the yanks still has to get british approval no matter how clandestine, the queen and now the king had/has to say yes

The pic of the Japanese lady you showed isnn't one of the daughter of the Emperor Emeritus of Japan Akihito, but one of the daughter of the CURRENT Emperor of Japan, Naruhito.

Dude where are you getting your info? I climbed the myan ruins in 2010.

plot twist: most cave paintings bear a strong connection with modern graffiti... teens misbehaving

My wife and I climbed the pyramid at Chichen Itza in 2001.

Ok so I should probably ignore the class reunion invite I got .should of know something was up when it came from provelia island

Yey! Someone who finally pronounces LASCAUX Properly! Merci!

The most illegal and dangerous place to go is your Ex wife home😅

Glad to hear Mr Uluṟu in Australia is banned for anyone to climb it as a mark of respect to both Aboriginal people and land owners. It’s a beautiful site and very natural.

No mention that it was early contact with the North Sentinelese that caused the distrust of outsiders in the first place. Also "rumors" of cannibalism was said with disgust and reinforces tribal stereotypes. All of this hostility came from the fact that they were messed with by outsiders in the first place.

The Brazilian island is an ideal place for bird watching.

Heard Island is not precisely "pristine", unless you were only referring to the absence of invasive species. There are ruins on the island from sealing activities in the late 1800s. At least two sets are visible in Google Maps satellite view.

A great compilation spoiled somewhat by poor research. For instance the Golden Lancehead isn't the "most venomous" snake in Latin America let alone the entire world. Not something you want to take a bite from I concede, but facts are only facts if they're accurate.

Uluru rock paintings are at least 17000 + years old according to experts. Not 10000 years old.

Nice. Happy holidays and a new year

In 1991 I climbed to the top of the Chichen itza pyramid (a calendar structure) and permits to climb it were not necessary nor a fee. There was a chain running from the middle of the base all the way up to the top so that you could hold unto as you climb and come down of the pyramid "safely ". Years later it was not allowed to climb such monument anymore with the purpose to preserve it for it was declared to be a Humanity Patrimony.

I climbed up that temple at Chitzen Itza.

It's pronounced Aires Rock, even though it's spelt with a Y.

To me the sentileese are really cool to learn about but it’s to bad we’ve only had a few contacts with them ever.

Thank you for using metic on screen in support of every country on earth except, Myanmar, Liberia and USA.

My 2 go to places would be 1. Sentinal Island. 2. Snake Island. :)

Only CLIMBING Uluru is forbidden. You can still walk around the base and even visit the cave paintings.

there was two groups that got to meet the north sentinels with peace

I wasn't aware that Charlie Sheen was doing voice-over work.

My mind goes to Area 51, North Sentinel Island & the Vatican Vault.

Now i want to visit all these places haha

How far is sentinel island from the mainland? Not sure if they said and I missed it, but what do you think would happen if we just cruised by real quick and left them a bunch of boats and oars? Think they'd figure out how to use them and try to explore and maybe reach the mainland? Not talking real nice boats, shit they could make themselves since they obviously have knowledge of tools.

What about Plum Island, Bouvet Island and Antartica?

I laughed at the sentines people dancing lol

I knew number 1 would be number 1! :D

Nothing is illegal if you don't get caught

Number 6 is why the world is in such dire circumstances... How this woman named Elizabeth came to own... Wtf

#14 I went there almost 5 years ago. However, I did see a red rope around one of the tallest pyramid structures.

The governments still need to keep up with these places!

I climbed to the top of Ayers Rock in 1993. It took me about an hour to get to the summit.

People that took rocks home from the Australian mountain, have sent them back with apologies and begging the Australian gov to place the rocks back due to constant bad luck.. just a fun tidbit

Man…I really wanted to visit Monkey AIDS Island too….damn government telling me what to do…

just booked a once in a lifetime, half price trip to north sentinal island!

There's a video of some abandoned place person that stayed at Bangor over night...only thing he had a problem with was monkeys...countless monkeys.

Epstiens island., don’t want anyone finding out what really went on there.

Yes I think I understand. So if I'm told not to jump off this bridge I should know why. This requires intelligence which everyone doesn't have.

You can't go to Diego Garcia because of what's under the surface of the water not above it.

What about Plum Island..?

I walked on chitza pyramid in 1997

When ever I sue these… I’ve been to most of them. The coolest part about Diego Garcia is the beach bar… where at night the beach looks like it is moving because it is completely covered with crabs.

I've visited Chichen Niza in 2004, instead of going to the Thailand where tsunami would've strike. Hearing it also could've killed me was something I didn't know about before, and that it's closed now.

When Montserrat erupted the people came to London and joined my school in East London. Most hadn't ever seen white people and the majority had fights with the black British kids, it was a mental school year.

Hey, the narrator is the guy from Simple History!

I bet there's less snakes on Snake Island than there are adverts in this video!! But still. Good video! As always 😁

My husband spent a month on Diego Garcia.

what a surprise nothing in actual England. what about Deadman island, that is also illegal to go to. full of corpses. from prison ships

16:12 typical American and British response, “when you are a superpower you get away with a lot more than you should”