With a global pandemic going on, an underground bunker suddenly seems like a smart idea. While there are plenty of options out for there for the perfect post-apocalyptic hideout, where better to have one than your own backyard? From subterranean shelters you can install at home to unbelievable hideaways real people have built on their properties, these are the perfect places to hunker down and wait out the worst. Click or scroll for more…
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Montana mountain getaway
Located on an idyllic alpine property in Montana, this mountain home borders thousands of acres of national forest. Recently on the market for $1.2 million, the luxurious main house is tucked away behind a private gated entrance, while a secret bunker is hidden within the sprawling 40-acre grounds.
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Montana mountain getaway
Carved into the hillside, you’ll find a 10,000-square-foot safety shelter. Camouflaged amongst the rocks, the concealed entrance leads through to four RV bays and a 2,500-square-foot living space that’s ready for the installation of four apartments.
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Montana mountain getaway
With a fully reinforced door, the bunker is also equipped with a two-story gun vault and an escape tunnel. This secure, subterranean space has to be the perfect hideout in the event of a global emergency.
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Montana mountain getaway
Equipped to run off-grid with two 1,000-gallon underground propane tanks and a water system, the self-sufficient backyard bunker also comes with a separate workshop space fitted with a small electric crane.
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Montana mountain getaway
You’d be far from roughing it in a crisis as the interior of the underground shelter is already equipped with a fully working kitchen featuring spotlights, rustic wooden cabinets and state-of-the-art appliances. Additional underground creature comforts include a modern bathroom and laundry room.
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Alabama bunker home
This rural retreat in the small village of Muscadine, Alabama is the ultimate secure escape. Sitting in over 73 acres of land encompassing three flowing creeks, it was recently on the market for $1.5 million. However, the property isn’t all it seems, as it includes a rather unique clandestine feature too…
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Alabama bunker home
Fully furnished, the rustic main home is the ideal place to lay low. Spread over three floors, it features three bedrooms with a spacious kitchen, a cozy rock fireplace and an upper deck complete with a hot tub.
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Alabama bunker home
Overlooking the tranquil creek, the cabin-style home also has a large indoor-outdoor pavilion with a firepit that would make the ideal workshop space for a thrifty prepper. But that isn’t all…
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Alabama bunker home
Hidden from the world at the rear of the pavilion is the entrance to this underground bunker. Complete with a living space, bedroom and kitchen, it’s the ideal self-contained hideaway should the world descend into chaos.
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Modular fallout shelter
If you’d prefer to add a bunker to your own backyard rather than upping sticks, Texas-based Atlas Survival Shelters offers a range of affordable bunkers to survive the apocalypse. Each shelter has a state-of-the-art air filtration system, a generator pod and enough solid steel to save you from bomb blasts, fire, floods and disease.
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Modular fallout shelter
The perfect fit for a large backyard, the modular square shelter is designed as an emergency home away from home. It features an L-shaped entrance with gas-tight interior doors to help stop gamma radiation in its tracks, plus a quarter-inch thick steel exterior.
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Modular fallout shelter
This well-appointed bunker comes decked out with a stunning fitted kitchen and dining area, a stylish living zone, an LED TV and DVD player, wine racks, throws, cushions and an array of other creature comforts.
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Modular fallout shelter
A number of potentially life-saving options can be snapped up too for an additional charge. These include camera surveillance, short-wave radios, solar panels and last but not least, multiple radiation detectors.
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Corrugated pipe bunker
For something that you can build yourself, the Round Culvert bunker from Atlas Survival Shelters ticks all the boxes. With prices starting at $50,000, the sections of the corrugated shelter bolt together, making it ideal for DIY aficionados.
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Corrugated pipe bunker
With galvanized steel stairs leading down to a gas-tight interior door, the bunker is safe and secure from the outside world. Inside, there are tamper-proof air pipes and an escape tunnel so you’re covered for every eventuality. The living area is compact yet comfortable, with an entertainment center and fully fitted kitchen.
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Corrugated pipe bunker
The corrugated metal walls ensure the interior of the bunker is silent, eliminating any echoes that might come with smooth-walled shelters. And if you’re worried about fitting in all of your supplies, the backyard bunker has extra storage under the floors and beds.
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Corrugated pipe bunker
Sleeping up to eight people, the design encompasses six bunk beds and a luxurious master bedroom with a queen-sized bed. The suite is located at the furthest end of the bunker, next to the emergency secret escape tunnel.
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Luxury backyard bunker
For something a little larger, Rising S Bunkers provides a range of luxurious, virtually impenetrable bomb shelters. Made from steel, the state-of-the-art designs are built to run off the grid, so you’ll be able to weather the storm should the worst happen and the power grid goes down.
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Luxury backyard bunker
With a blast door that’s made in-house to ensure the best quality, each bunker comes with a lifetime guarantee. The luxury series, which offers bunkers fit for a billionaire, starts at $3.3 million, and with no limit to the customization options it can be as extravagant as you like.
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Luxury backyard bunker
Packed with state-of-the-art amenities, the luxury bunker offers all the creature comforts you’d expect and then some, from the multi-vehicle garage to the greenhouse, gym and huge storage room.
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Luxury backyard bunker
The plush units are equipped with full plumbing and septic systems, plus they’re wired for dual power so they can run on or off the grid. They also have NBC air filtration systems, hot water heaters and infrared security systems to keep you and your family safe.
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Miniature yard bunker
If you’re searching for an emergency retreat to fit a smaller area, the Mini Bunker is a more compact and affordable option. Designed to protect its occupants from bomb blasts and nuclear fallout, the solid steel structure can be lifted into place to provide an instant yard shelter.
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Miniature yard bunker
Measuring just eight feet by 12 feet, the snug bunker offers a basic survival space that can be decorated with homely touches for a more welcoming feel. The dinky living area has an air filtration system, a bunk bed and an alcohol-burning stove to keep its residents toasty and warm in the colder months.
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Miniature yard bunker
There’s also a compact kitchenette, a composting toilet and shower unit, plus a TV/DVD system to keep the whole family entertained. The bunkers are made to order, so buyers can select their ideal floor plan and amenities.
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Miniature yard bunker
For those wanting a middle of the range fortress, Rising S Bunkers also provides a selection of more spacious backyard bunkers. Measuring 10 feet by 50 feet, the Homesteader shelter pictured here costs $159,000 and comes complete with two private bedrooms for a more luxurious survival setup.
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Customizable steel bunker
Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Ultimate Bunker builds customizable bunkers for just about anywhere. Designed to withstand nuclear blasts, fire, biological and chemical agents, massive shock waves, civil unrest, armed attacks and even earthquakes, the resilient steel structures are equipped with fireproof doors and air vents.
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Customizable steel bunker
The company work alongside contractors, designers, architects and advisers to create a bunker floor plan that’s designed around their client’s individual needs, whether you’re after a snug survival space or a sprawling layout to accommodate the whole family.
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Customizable steel bunker
Ultimate Bunker uses sturdy Fort Knox vault doors to secure their safe rooms, which feature a reinforced fire door and strategically placed locking bolts. If disaster strikes, you’ll have a super-secure space to retreat to.
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Customizable steel bunker
Each shelter comes with five-star amenities and a bespoke layout that can include a stylish kitchen and living areas, plus storage and workspaces. The company also provides professional installation to ensure your backyard bunker is completely hidden.
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Fortitude Ranch
Rather than sheltering in your own backyard, you might prefer to hunker down in someone else’s. Fortitude Ranch is a doomsday survival camp where preppers can lay low in the event of a major catastrophe. Founded by Drew Miller, a former military intelligence officer, it costs around $1,000 a year to reserve a place at Fortitude Ranch, which has multiple sites – two in Colorado and one in West Virginia, with plans for bases in Nevada and Wisconsin too.
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Fortitude Ranch
From the outside, the 50-acre Colorado ranch looks like a rustic holiday retreat in the mountains. However, built like a fortress with guard towers and barbed wire fencing, it’s no ordinary rural escape. As well as two large log cabins, there’s also an array of underground bunkers nestled in the grounds.
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Fortitude Ranch
Each of the subterranean shelters is built to sustain a nuclear attack, with eight-inch thick reinforced concrete, steel plating and three feet of earth covering the roofs of the structures.
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Fortitude Ranch
Inside, the bunkers are basic but functional, a choice made in part to make the yearly membership fee as affordable as possible. The ranch provides solar and propane generators as well as kerosene and wood supplies, ensuring the shelters have access to heating and power should disaster strike.
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Fortitude Ranch
Fortitude Ranch also has an impressive stockpile of food, so residents won’t go hungry in the event of a global emergency. The compound includes a small greenhouse with genetically modified seeds that have a longer shelf life, while some ranch locations even have cattle.
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Secret shed bunker
One man who won’t be heading anywhere other than his own backyard if Armageddon arrives is Colin Furze, a British YouTube sensation and inventor who’s been prepping for a world pandemic for years. The social media star’s home features an underground bunker, which was completed in 2015 by Colin and a friend.
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Secret shed bunker
Looking at the unassuming shed at the end of Colin’s yard, you’d never guess that there was something buried beneath it. However, hidden under a panel in the floor, a concealed trapdoor reveals a metal ladder that leads down to a secret room.
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Secret shed bunker
The 10-foot-deep bunker offers 320 square feet of space and has been covered in concrete and soil to ward off any attacks. With a curved roof and just enough headspace, the subterranean structure took two months to build and really is the ultimate man cave.
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Secret shed bunker
Located in Stamford, Lincolnshire Colin has kitted out the den as an extension of his home. The cozy living area, complete with multicolored fairy lights, has every creature comfort you could need, from the flat-screen TV to an array of video game consoles.
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Secret shed bunker
The amazing space comes complete with a makeshift kitchen, which has a microwave and a sink with running water, as well as plenty of storage. Colin has also stocked the bunker with lots of tinned and dried foods to sustain him if he has to spend a long period of time underground.
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Secret shed bunker
The keen musician even installed a drum kit and several guitars in the space, so should the apocalypse roll around, he’ll have plenty of ways to while away the time. The bunker also includes a small bedroom space equipped with one of Colin’s quirky inventions, an ejector bed, though needless to say it isn’t much use underground.
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Secret shed bunker
The bunker, which has a generator for electricity in case the power grid stops working, also includes a working toilet, plus a small workshop station with an array of tools so Colin can carry on tinkering if the time comes to take shelter.
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The Ark Two
Over 35 years ago, Bruce Beach finished building a 10,000-square-foot nuclear bunker out of 42 school buses in a bid to prepare for the end of the world. Bruce and his wife, Jean, live in 12.5 acres of land in Ontario, Canada and decided to convert the automobiles into the ultimate safe space.
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The Ark Two
Named The Ark Two, the shelter sits 14 feet underground and can accommodate around 500 people. It’s been designed to support a large community and is equipped with everything from food supplies to plumbing and laundry facilities.
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The Ark Two
Bruce chose to build his unconventional bunker out of buses because of their reasonable price point. Costing him just $300 a vehicle, the frames came complete with reinforced steel roofs – ideal for a bombproof shelter.
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The Ark Two
A true prepper, Bruce has ensured The Ark Two has everything a small community would need, including a decontamination space, kitchen, laundry, library, dentist, daycare, X-ray facilities and even a small chapel.
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The Ark Two
With no shortage of room, the shelter is so big that there are maps dotted around the corridors so that residents don’t lose their way. Designed not only as a safety bunker to protect its inhabitants but also as a space to reconstruct society after a devastating catastrophe, the bunker is ready and waiting should a global disaster occur.
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The Ark Two
Sleeping accommodation includes communal bunk rooms assigned according to age and gender. On the shelter’s website, Bruce says the survival bunker is open to anyone, as long as they join before disaster strikes and invites prospective residents to email him. Backyard bunkers don’t get much more impressive than this!
