With the coronavirus pandemic driving us all into lockdown, many people have been fantasising about having the perfect bolt-hole to ride out the storm.
A relic from a previous crisis might be just the spot. A Las Vegas home designed in the 1970s as a luxury nuclear bunker with five bedrooms, lawns, terraces, a pool and even a waterfall is on the market this week, at a cool $18 million.
Avon cosmetics executive Girard Henderson built the spectacular "Doomsday Mansion" in 1978, when millions of Americans feared that their country was on the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
While it’s a desirable residence on its own, the real selling-point of Henderson’s 5,000-square-foot home is that it is constructed underground, inside a