Are you a cold war history buff? Do you have a few hundred thousand bucks lying around? Would you like a man cave that can withstand a one megaton nuclear blast?
Then 20th Century Castles LLC would like to sell you a decommissioned U.S. nuclear missile silo, cheap. With just a little bit of elbow grease, you could turn these impregnable, fallout-proof holes in the ground into a Barbie dream house. The real estate agency states on its website that one of the missile bases is “based in a decommissioned Atlas E site in Kansas, where we have lived underground for 16 years.” Castles also claims that to date, it has sold 49 such properties, presumably to homeowners who are unconcerned about both radiation and occasional military incursions from mole-people.
And oh, the bargains there are to be found! Check out this listing for a 19-acre complex in New York’s Adirondack mountains complete with an FAA-approved runway for your private plane, which, of course, you have. The asking price has been reduced from $4.6 million to a mere $750,000. Chump change.
If you’re serious about looking into one of these properties (and one gets the sense from their website that non-serious people contact 20th Century Castles pretty regularly), you can order a video about the missile base of your choice to make an informed purchase. Or you can just peruse the listings on the site and be quietly terrified that gigantic nuclear missiles were once stored within a quick commute of major urban areas like Cincinnatti, Tuscon, and Denver. Both are totally reasonable reactions.
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