9 Underground Places In Nevada No One Is Allowed To Enter

Nevada holds more restricted federal land than almost any other state in the country, and a striking amount of what the government has built there over the past seventy years was built downward rather than upward. Beneath the desert north of Las Vegas sit excavated tunnels, sealed test chambers, and underground laboratories built for nuclear weapons research, none of them open to the public, several of them still active today. This video counts down nine real underground places in Nevada, from a tunnel complex more than nine hundred feet beneath the desert where the United States still conducts classified plutonium experiments, to a five-mile exploratory tunnel bored through a mountain that has never received a single shipment of the nuclear waste it was built to hold. Every site on this list is documented by the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, or federal environmental and historical records.