Nine safest safes and vaults in the world

When preventing valuables from being pried open by your fingers, you can choose to hide in your closet-or you can use some of the safest vaults, safes and other fortresses in the world.

1. Fort Knox, Kentucky//Fort Knox

Planning to break into fort Knox? First, climb four fences around-two of which are electric-and then sneak through the armed sentries around. Be sure to avoid the cameras, but don't waste time trying to blast the granite walls: they are 4 feet thick and connected by 750 tons of steel bars. If you go through the armed guards inside, plus the locked maze, you may be stopped by a 22-ton vault door. Do not despair. The vault can be opened, but only if you find all the staff who know a small part of the combination (you need them all, because no one knows the whole thing). Once you enter the vault, you will have to break into the smaller vault hidden inside, and then you can start taking away 5000 tons of gold bars stored there. Be careful when you leave: 30,

2. Svalbard Global Seed Bank//Spitsbergen, Norway

If the end of the world happens soon, any hope of restoring the world's crops will be buried 390 feet below the Nordic Mountain. Svalbard Global Seed Bank, located in Spitsbergen Island, currently has more than 500,000 species of plants in the world. Located 620 miles south of the North Pole, this sanctuary is protected by hundreds of miles of ocean and thousands of polar bears. It is so deep that it can withstand a nuclear disaster, not to mention a serious earthquake. It is also located at an altitude of 430 feet, unaffected by any possible sea level rise. Three seed banks are located behind four heavy steel doors. As long as the key is not hidden under the doormat, our seeds should not be affected by the end of the world.

3. Cheyenne Mountains//Colorado

A driver enters a tunnel in the Cheyenne Mountains.

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Xia Yanshan redefined the word "job security". Employees working behind two 25-ton doors can withstand 30 megatons of explosion. From this point of view, Fat Man-the bomb dropped on Nagasaki-must explode 1429 times to open the entrance. The office there is buried in granite 2000 feet deep on the mountain, so it is necessary to pump air into it. However, the air there is the cleanest in the world. It is treated by the most advanced chemical, biological and nuclear filtration systems. No wonder Cheyenne hosted the American Missile Early Warning Center and the North American Air Defense Command during the Cold War.

4. Tieshan//Pennsylvania

Einstein is like one of the many cultural treasures of Tieshan.

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What is the charred wreckage of Flight 93? What is the similarity between the original photo of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue and Thomas Edison's light bulb patent? Are stored under the iron mountain. 200 feet underground, this retired limestone mine has a vault with a value of 654.38+700,000 square feet. The United States is the largest tenant, and 95% of the vault owners are kept secret. We know that Warner Bros., Smithsonian Institution and Colby all have vaults there. Thousands of recordings, photographic negatives and original films of historical masters live here. Tieshan is also home to Room 48, a data center that supports some of the largest companies in the United States. Two waves of armed guards protected the entrance. It is said that they have thoroughly inspected the guests, and even TSA will feel embarrassed.

5. Federal Reserve Bank of new york//New York, new york

Federal Reserve Bank of new york.

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Away from the hustle and bustle of Wall Street, 25% of the gold in the world exists. At the Federal Reserve Bank in New York State, more than $270 billion worth of gold bars are hidden in a sunken three-story basement. However, most of the gold is not American. Foreign countries own 98% of the shares. But that's because they trust the Fed's vault. After all, it is 80 feet underground, surrounded by solid rocks and surveyed by a professional team of shooters. Most importantly, 540,000 gold bars are locked behind a 90-ton steel door.

6. Granite Mountain//Utah

Granite Mountain has been protecting Mormon genealogy since 1965. Located 600 feet below the mountain, the library has 3.5 billion microfilm images-from census records to immigration documents. These documents were obtained through agreements with archives, libraries and churches in more than 100 countries. The archivists there copied and digitized the old documents, which have been made public on websites such as familysearch.com and ancestry.com. The facility is naturally controlled by climate, but it is also protected by armed guards and 14 ton nuclear explosion-proof doors. Chances are, somewhere in it, there is a record with your name on it.

7. Imperial Bank//Hiroshima, Japan

When Einola Guy threw the little boy into Hiroshima, the city and its people were destroyed. But in the city center, there is only one football field from the ground zero, and the vault of Imperial Bank is intact. Fried outside, primitive inside. Mosler, the company that makes the safe, regards this incident as a huge marketing opportunities. In the next decade, it used this tragedy to brag about the quality of its products. Is it safe? Of course. Euphemism? Not that much.

8. Bank of England, Ministry of Finance//London, UK

It looks like something from raiders of the lost ark: Britain's largest treasury-second only to new york's Federal Reserve-stores 46,005152 tons of gold. The explosion door is unlocked by a complex voice recognition system, supplemented by three-foot keys. As far as I know, Ross can't copy them. The bank won't say how heavy the door is or how deep the vault is buried, but we do know that it covers more than 42 towers and 47 floors in London.

9. Banhoff and Wikileaks//Stockholm, Sweden

The State Council may not like this safe house very much. This ancient nuclear bunker is buried 100 feet below the streets of Stockholm, and it is notorious in the data center. This is because the facility is owned by Bahnhof, a Swedish Internet provider, and is known for protecting Wikileaks servers. Julian assange's most precious computer is hidden in this data bunker. Wikileaks is hidden behind a 1.5-foot-high steel door, powered by a backup generator that can run for weeks. As long as it is here, it will keep breathing.