Home with Underground Home, Nevada

Though there are thousands of backyard bomb shelters and survivalist bunkers underground left from past and future fears of nuclear attack, this one in Las Vegas is unique. On the surface, its a more or less ordinary 1970s home on a one acre lot, at 3970 Spencer Street in a residential area. This is the caretaker’s house. Inside it is a staircase and elevator leading to a hollowed out cavern, whose walls are lit by a system that can create the impression of a day, night, or twilight sky. Inside the cavern’s 15,000 square feet is a main house, a guest house, swimming pool, lawn, putting green, and barbeque, all underground. It was constructed by a businessman and his wife, who claimed to be able to live there for a year without surfacing. It was sold in 2013 to a group called the Society for the Preservation of Near Extinct Species.