Super Secure homes

This house appeals to me for storage space. Not sure if posted before but it's a converted cold war missile solo now called Subterra located on a 16 hectare estate. The owner paid $48,000 for it in 1982.

The silo was built in 1960 for $US2.3 million but abandoned in the '70s. By the '90s it had been transformed: once the location of an Atlas E intercontinental ballistic missile with a four-megaton warhead, it is now the cosy and somewhat quirky home of Peden and his wife Dianna.

Peden may have started with 2.5 metres of rainwater and many tonnes of rubbish to deal with, but he's now left with two observation towers, a 1022-square-metre underground garage with a 47-tonne nuke-proof door, 14 square metres of underground entry tunnels and more than 604 square metres of underground living space in a three-level underground home.

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Peden was so taken by the unique properties of his home that he started a business buying, selling and helping people convert decommissioned military sites. His company, 20th Century Castles, had sold 49 silos, bunkers, vaults, communications stations and other military relics by 2010. Owners have a website here http://www.subterracastle.com/

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