Euronews.com reports: Shortly to be added to the list of Europe’s most unusual tourist destinations, you too will soon be able to experience some of that Cold War chill in this nuclear bunker in the Czech Republic. Misov, some 60 kilometres from the German border, got its underground complex in the Khrushchev years, and now it is a museum to [...]
A bunker dating back to World War II is currently undergoing a major transformation. Long story short, the bunker is set to be turned into a renewable energy power plant. This WW II relic is located in Hamburg, and the people working on this green-oriented project are confident that its transformation will be complete by 2015 at the latest. During [...]
By ANDREW TARANTOLA / Gizmodo With North Korea’s missiles at the ready — pointless though that may be — we may not be far from another Cold War. With the potential end of civilisation at the hands of a pudgy Dennis Rodman fan looming, there’s only one thing that can protect the public: bunkers! Here are two dozen of the best designs from the [...]
Our humble abode: The structure was built during the Cold War, to ‘withstand the big blast,’ the real estate agent handling the sale said With the fear of meteor crashes rising, people looking for cover might just be in luck. A concrete bomb shelter in South Florida is going up for sale for a cool $499,500, for anyone looking for [...]
The first photographs have emerged of a secret concrete bunker constructed by Benito Mussolini who feared being assassinated by the RAF at the height of the Second World War. The 860 square feet bunker, which was built about 50ft beneath Palazzo Venezia, his Rome headquarters, was only rediscovered in 2010, during routine maintenance work. Now there are plans to open [...]
Emerging from the sands like a Phoenix from the ashes, the skeleton of a magnificent seaside hotel abandoned in the Second World War after falling victim to coastal erosion has begun to make a dramatic reappearance. The Manor House Hotel, like a ghost from the wartime past, is now visible again on the beach at Caister, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, [...]
ONE of Britain’s most historically significant sites is to open to the public following an overwhelming response from local people. More than 3,000 turned out to a trial open weekend at the Battle of Britain Bunker at RAF Uxbridge last year, and now the RAF has decided to take it to the next level. The bunker, off St Andrew’s Road, [...]
OVERGROWN vegetation and graffiti-daubed outbuildings do much to avert prying eyes but more than 100ft below Corstorphine Hill there lies a secret. Deep below ground, set into the protective rock of Barnton Quarry, sits a three-storey warren of rooms and chambers designed to offer shelter and a base of power for both royalty and the highest dignitaries in the [...]
Diving in a Most Unusual place: it is Proposed pictures que la Diane Couraud Dufraisy- taken in a secret bunker beneath the Gare de l’Est in Paris. Exploration. (Neverends) The bunker was built by the French railways just before the Second World War. Aim: to check the basement for the functions of the station. conflict erupted The then, and it was the Germans who invest [...]
The Northern Echo reports: TEACHERS who discovered they had a hidden, full-scale Second World War bunker under their school field have been shocked to be handed a map detailing five more. The known air raid centre was first discovered at the private Teesside High School in Eaglescliffe, Stockton, two years ago when a tree fell down in stormy weather. School managers are applying [...]
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