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9 Surprisingly Beautiful Bunkers

6:00AM September 17, 2011 | Oobject.com

It’s not just the picturesque locations or the stout Brutalist architecture that makes them beautiful — though it helps — it’s the fact that nearly every one of them is rotting from disuse. Our friends at Oobject have assembled a collection of nine of these incredible pillboxes. More »

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Porn Studio Building Opulent Underground Sex Bunker

8:05AM September 16, 2011 | Sam Biddle

You might be familiar with Pink Visual, a major porn player. If and when the world ends in 2012, they don’t want all that sexy time to stop. So let’s built a bang bunker. More »

Gadgets

7 Tools To Retrofy Your Bunker

5:30AM August 26, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Doesn’t matter if I’m riding out Hurricane Irene or the latest zombiepacolypse, there’s absolutely no reason for me to huddle in a cramped, dank vault like some goddamn refugee. More »

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9 Handy Places To Hide During An Air Raid

4:00AM April 30, 2011 | Oobject

When explosives begin raining from the sky, it’s generally recommended that one find a sturdy, preferably covered, area to wait. Our friends at Oobject.com have some great examples. More »

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Kraft Has A 37,000sqm Underground Cheese Cave

4:00AM February 2, 2011 | Sam Biddle

That Kraft cheese slice you might chomp for lunch today? It came from a mammoth subterranean dairy bunker the company uses as dirt cheap refrigeration and storage, Wired reports. Inside a 70-year-old mine that’s still rocked by explosions. More »

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The Eerie Abandoned Bunkers Of WWII

6:40AM January 25, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Across wartime Western Europe, defensive bunkers sprung up to uneasily counter the constant threat of the enemy. Some on land, some by sea, but now, all derelict. Photographer Jonathan Andrew toured several countries to capture these haunting, dilapidated relics. More »

This Dutch Bunker Survived Wars, But Not A Team Of Architects

12:00AM October 21, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Don’t get too sad over this 195-year-old bunker being sliced in half. There are 700 other bunkers nearby which form the New Dutch Waterline that protected cities between 1815-1940. Now it’s an area for watery playtime. More »

Online

This Is The Nuclear Bunker Where WikiLeaks Will Be Located

12:40AM September 1, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

This is Pionen White Mountains, the nuclear bunker in which WikiLeaks will locate some of its servers. It was excavated 30m underground in a rock hill in the centre of Stockholm, Sweden, during the Cold War. More »

Never-Before-Seen Photos Of Hitler’s Bunker And Apartment

12:20PM May 19, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

If you love beautiful, airy architecture that shelters the body and inspires the soul, you came to the wrong place. These never-before-published images of Hitler’s bunker and apartment at the Reich chancellery, only show brassy, oppressive interiors that inspire disgust: More »

Cold War Bunker On eBay Has Bids Reaching $US35,000

10:00PM March 2, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

You’ll have to travel to England’s Peak District to collect – and when I say collect, I mean “bunker down”, but the 15m x 15m bunker in a genuine souvenir from the Cold War, used by the Royal Observer Corps. More »