Six incredible real-life supervillain lairs

[thewayne]

These are documented, real places. They weren't used for villainy, well, except for the one owned by a drug lord that killed the other people on the island, but it's still pretty cool. The bottom of the first page has a video tour of a Titan silo post-gutting and pre-refurb: talk about HUGE!

http://www.cracked.com/article_17278_6-incredible-real-world-supervillain-lairs.html


And here's a nice pictorial story in Wired about a converted missile base that's now a residence:

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2009/04/gallery_missile_base_1?currentPage=all

Comments

[kylejcrb.livejournal.com]

Oh man, those would make for AWESOME lairs. I wonder if I have good enough credit to get a loan on a missile silo...

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

There's a web site at www.siloworld.com that shows several for sale near Roswell, NM, Topeka, KS, and perhaps TX. IIRC, the least expensive was low six digits (below $200K), but they are definitely in the class of fixer-uppers. I've heard of silos going for $50K, hard to say how accurate that is. The problem is that, in addition to requiring A LOT of work to fix up, you also have HazMat issues like asbestos abatement to deal with.

However, the site apparently hasn't been updated in a couple of years (and is a REALLY sucky layout), so there's no telling what's available or for what price.

Having said that, I'd definitely go for an Atlas base if I won a few million in the lottery.