Pine Gap, Australia

We all know that one of America’s most top-secret places is Area 51. Well, for Australia, the credit for the most secretive facility undoubtedly goes to Pine Gap.

With its first whereabouts dating back to the late ‘60s, Pine Gap has since played a part in numerous global events. Even so, the facility remains a mystery to even most of Australia’s government leaders. Starting out with only a small workforce, Pine Gap now has about a thousand workers. For the most part, the facility is often used to gather much of the world’s data. If you’re asking how, it is through those golf ball-looking objects called radomes, which shields the satellite dishes within. On the functionality side of things, they can reportedly control spy satellites as far as 36,000 km away from the Earth. Who knows what they’ll do with all the data they’ve gathered through the years, right?