Westland Bunker, Texas

This corporate bunker northwest of Houston was originally constructed by the owner of Westland Oil, which was headquartered in an office building next door. The underground facility has around 40,000 square feet, on two levels, underneath a (now dry) pond on the corporate grounds. Designed to hold as many as 350 people for up to 3 months. Westland Oil didn’t last, going bust in 1987, and the campus left empty for 13 years. In 2001 it was bought by Curtis Development, which hired the local Westlin Corporation to redevelop, market, and lease it. After hurricanes in 2005, companies began leasing the space, including Continental Airlines, which converted some of it for use as a crisis operations center. The building is now mostly being marketed as a secure data center, called The Bunker.