Most Secure Vaults in the World

02 Dec,2023

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Fort Knox is probably the most secure bank vault in the world. We can find the US Bullion Depository in Kentucky on the north of Elizabethtown and the south of Louisville. They named it after Henry Knox, the first secretary of war for the United States and the Chief of Artillery during the American Revolutionary War.

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Fort Knox

The Svalbard Seed Bank, also known as the Global Seed Vault, is a secure vault located on a small island called Spitsbergen in Norway. Some people declare it to be the most secure building in the world. This modern bank vault holds samples of crops necessary to restart life on earth should an apocalyptic event occur.

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Svalbard Seed Bank

Granite Mountain serves both as a majestic view and a tightly shut secure vault no one can simply enter. It’s possible you only saw these types of safes in movies like the National Treasure series and think they are entirely fictional, but they do exist. Granite Mountain can be found near Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States.

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Granite Mountain

The Iron Mountain Vault is the biggest vault in the world. It’s a secure vault hidden underneath the mountain nicknamed “The Underground”, which goes as deep as 220-feet. It expands as far as 1.8 million square feet.

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Iron Mountain Vault

Cheyenne Mountain follows Granite Mountain as one of the natural structures used to create a secure vault. The Cheyenne Mountain is located in El Paso, Colorado. Among the mountain range contains the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, which formerly held the Cheyenne Mountain Space Exploration and a defensive bunker with the ability to withstand nuclear blasts.

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Cheyenne Mountain

What is the most protected building on earth? Teikoku Bank’s Hiroshima branch was. A secure vault inside the Teikoku Bank, along with its exterior building, was one of the very few structures that survived the atomic bomb that took place during the Second World War. 

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Teikoku Bank – Hiroshima

Many countries declare that they have the most secure vault in the world. Among them is Spain, which has a fighting chance for the title because of its Chamber of Gold. The Bank of Spain contains a vault called The Chamber of Gold which houses most of the Spanish gold reserves that can date far back as the 12th century. 

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The Chamber of Gold

The Federal Reserve is a famous secure vault that comprises twelve locations across the United States. We are here to discuss a particular branch of the Federal Reserve: the Bank of New York. The New York branch is the largest active member of the Federal Reserves. As a result, the Bank of New York has also become the Federal Reserve’s market agent and the US Department of Treasury’s only fiscal agent.

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Federal Reserve (Bank of New York)

The Bank of England is a secure vault owned by the UK Government, which is also declared as the central bank of the United Kingdom. It was established in 1694 after England lost to France at the Battle of Beachy Head. As the eighth oldest bank in the world, the Bank of England monopolizes issuing banknotes for England and Wales.

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Bank of England-Gold Vault

The final vault on our list is a secure vault no one from the past would have imagined ever existing. While vaults were created to conceal and safely keep precious jewels, gold, and artifacts, the Bahnhof vault protects WikiLeaks. You can find Bahnhof Data Center located inside the bunker Pionen. The bunker itself is several feet deep inside the White Mountains of Stockholm.

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Bahnhof