Just posted this on Slashdot, but thought it might be handy here as well.

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Ok, I'm one of the folks that's done a bunch of exploring in Azeroth. Here's a list (I think fairly comprehensive) of places I've been to or seen people get to. Much of this has been done on the live servers, with the threat of banning over my head. I'll list places I've seen with the http://wowmapview.sourceforge.net utility when appropriate.

===Azeroth===

1) Airport above Ironforge (and surrounding mountains)
This is kind of neat - it's the area you see when flying from Menethil or many other northern places to Ironforge. The trick is to walk from Dun Morogh to Loch Modan through the north gate pass. Once you exit the tunnels on the Loch Modan side, immediately on your left behind some trees (very very close to the gate) there's a small gap in the mountains that has a diagonal you can climb. After that it's all exploration through the mountains.

1.5) Village between Ironforge and Loch Modan
Jumping down from the airport or the mountains above Ironforge leads to this very interesting little village. It has a ramp that leads to nowwhere and some animals. It's apparent Ironforge was originally meant to connect to this village, and this village would lead to Menethil via a path in the mountains (possibly the one above the excavation site with the raptors). Ironforge was likely meant to use the flightpath at the airport via the blocked off tunnel up there.

2) Old Ironforge
This is curious. Apparently a remnant of Ironforge from the beta days, the doors at the throne room in Ironforge can be walked through in ghost form. Die close to them (I use Divine Intervention, but you can jump in the Lava instead) and then resurrect on the other side (after a brief walk from Kharanos). You'll need to hearthstone out. This would make for an awesome inside-the-city instance like the Orcs have.

3) Area behind Stratholme
Nothing much to see here. When swimming along the coast northbound from the Hinterlands, you can eventually climb up the mountains next to the Eastern Plaguelands and get into the unfinished terrain. Continuing north eventually leads to some somewhat interesting areas, such as the gap where Stratholme should be (it's in a separate instance, not the main map), as well as a little house in a path leading North from Eastern Plaguelands (I think this is supposed to be the old Elven Kingdoms - they're on the map as the northeastern most section, but do not exist for now - maybe in the expansion)

4) Village east of Arathi Highlands (south of Hinterlands)
Easiest way to get here is swimming south from the coast of the Hinterlands. Neat, kinda peaceful.

5) Broken down bridge near Dun Modr (Between Wetlands and Arathi)
You are actually meant to get here, but few people know about it. In the Thandol Span bridge, the Eastern bridge has been destroyed by the Dark Iron dwarves. You can get into it by drinking a potion or using some speed ability (a horse will do). There's a small quest here for a delivery. There's another quest on a scroll hidden in the water underneath.

6) Little house on coast west of Stormwind
Swim north from the coast of Westfall. You'll eventually reach an abandoned house with a sign "Newman's Landing".

7) Early entrance into Stranglethorn Vale instance
I was once poking around as a ghost in Stranglethorn Vale when I managed to climb the mountains directly south of the SV instance and get inside. Neat architecture, not sure if it can be done alive.

===Kalimdor===

8) Jump off Teldrassil
This is neat and easy as a Paladin. Get to Darnassus, exit into the tree, and go to the southern border. There's a couple spots here where you can get on a branch on the outside of the tree (this overlooks the Rutheran Village area). Climb out as far as you can on the branches, and using a horse or a speed potion, jump out as far as you can (otherwise you'll hit other branches on your way down). Once you're close to the bottom (you'll be able to see it with plenty of time) cast invulnerability or use a parachute cloak or featherfall or something. :)

9) Hyjal
This is an awesome area from Warcraft III. Get to Southern Winterspring and make it through the demons there (Elite 55-60+). You'll eventually make it to a cave with a locked gate to Hyjal. Die in front of it. Resurrect on other side. The area is unbelievably cool, with sights like the World Tree, the dead corpse of the demon from WC3, and some Blizzard Construction warning signs (from beta, I understand). There's a pretty decent jump from one side into Felwood (again, use invuln for this).

10) Little mushroomy area in Desolace
This is not a secret area, but when I got here it was completely unpopulated. Now it has some horde there. It's all the way at the southeast of the Desolace map, behind a centaur village.

11) Village south of Silithus
Swim around the southern coast of the continent (from Tanaris) and you'll reach this Tauren village. There's a neat empty cave in here too.

12) Mountain ranges around southern Silithus
Near the Tauren village mentioned above, you can climb the mountains to get to some flat terrain above Silithus. (there's some similar stuff near Northwest Silithus, off the coast of Feralas). You can probably get into Silithus from here using Levitation or some similar skill.

===Using wowmapview===

13) Tower in Deadwind Pass
I think I've heard of this referred to as Medivh's tower. It'll eventually be an instance (I think) There's a neat smily face printed on the ground underneath it.

14) Southern Silithus
Neat instance area. Looks like a bunch of Bug stuff going on here, with a palace, some column garden, and underground bug lair.

15) Outland
Technically you get here through the Dark Gate in Blasted Lands, in practice it's to the east of the Azeroth Continent map in Wowmapview. Will eventually be an awesome instance (I guess).

16) Emerald Dream
Weird place, has its own map. Looks like a lot of development stuff going on here. Watch for the cool flower tree things.

17) Developer Island
Testing area, neat Conch shell buildings. Probably a naga palace.

18) GM Island
Technically east of Darnassus, small island with a house in it for GMs.

19) PVP Instance #3
Neat small new instance. Looks like Barrens vs. Elven lands territory, with a sharp division down the middle separating the two terrains.

20) Caverns of Time
Awesome instance, hard to follow the path through it. Entrance is in Tanaris, behind some dragons. Looks like a weird mix of a thousand different things, paths floating through space... cool.

21) Other maps
There's various small testing maps accessible with Wowmapview. Awesome program! It's sometimes fun to go into instance maps and find palettes of objects the designers were using (take this slab and copy it to 600 places in the instance). These often rest outside the map itself, which is cool.

22) Islands south of Tanaris
Been there with program, but saw a video of a troll making it there alive. The trick was speed potions, walk on water and a soulstone to resurrect once the fatigue gets you. He made it to the two islands and the edge of the world behind them. Once of the islands has a bottle with a funny message "What the heck are you doing here" :)

23) King of Stormwind
Haven't been myself, but I have it on good authority that the King of Stormwind is behind held in the tunnels under Alcaz island close to Theramore... :)

It's also neat to explore the areas under the map (such as the mountains beneath Ironforge) to see how things connect, or how Stormwind floats in the air (and the king's palace is very low res), or how the gates to Grim Batol have nothing behind them or the ones in the Graymane Wall hide an empty area...

Well, I'm sure I'm forgetting something but this is fairly comprehensive. Have fun, and screw the bans! :)

-Jack Ash

Where is it and how do you get there please mabey find me directions or a map please its my dream to get there or any way how to get to any of the islands that are off limits

One you missed, East of burning steppes and north of redridge is an unfinished area. In the badlands near the ogre's camp boff you can run into the mountains and walk into a massive unfinished area. Also has a backdoor into Red Ridge mountains that i used to do some ganking around lvl 32. fun fun.

Has the way to the airport been complicated?
Because I've been trying for a very long time to get there, and it just doesn't seems to work...

You forgot Programmer Isle, which has what is (most likely) the Tomb of Sargeras on it :o For shame, to forget such a thing!

Lol :p

First of all wouldn't you get straight up banned for doing this stuff or is that just to scare us? And what is this program? PLease email it if it's available. THanks

Link to the map viewer program, Enjoy!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wowmapview/