10 Unbelievable Underground Homes

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5 – Vals Hillside Home,

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  • Tucked into the hillside to protect it during long winters, this hard-to-spot Swiss home is perfect for secret getaways.
  • Designed by famed architects SeArch and Christian Müller, Vals Hillside Home is an opulent underground pad that respects the surrounding ambience while managing to look like something from an IKEA catalogue.
  • Its large windows reflect the stunning Alpine vistas and if for some crazy reason visitors feel like stepping outside, the area is also home to world-famous thermal baths.

4 – Sedum House,

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  • Known to its friends as ‘the house of the future’, this North Norfolk home attracts so much sunlight I’m surprised it doesn’t know Solar Beam. Its upper level is bordered with glass windows, even though most of its rooms are located underground.
  • As with many of the entries on this list, Sedum House is extremely eco-friendly, with insulated shuttering, a geothermal heat pump and a unique system for harvesting rain water.

3 – Aloni House,

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  • Found on Greece’s rugged Antiparos Island, Aloni House is a unique rectangular structure built between the slopes of two adjacent hillsides.
  • Its simple boxy design incorporates traditional Greek design elements and would appeal to anyone who hates curved edges or enjoys touring their local box factory.
  • Visitors will only be able to see this half-buried house if they’re standing in the centre viewing point. From any other angle it resembles a decrepit ruin or blends into the surrounding desert.

2 – Hacienda de la Paz,

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  • On the surface, Hacienda de la Paz looks like your average Californian McMansion. But hidden beneath its surface lies a secret! No, it’s not a basement full of corpses; it’s five underground levels of lavish living space.
  • Wealthy shrimp importer John Z. Blazevich built this unique underground home after local laws prohibited him from going forward with his original design: a super-tall multi-level monstrosity.
  • Working with famed Spanish curator Rafael Manzano Martos, Blazevich’s design for Hacienda de la Paz included an underground tennis court, a 10,000-square-foot Turkish bath, a ballroom, nine bedrooms, twenty-five bathrooms (in case all your guests need to go at one), multiple secret passages and pine flooring constructed from trees that fell hundreds of years earlier.

1 – Subterra Castle,

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  • This underground home was once an Atlas missile base before it was flooded with over a million gallons of water. Looking at it now, it’s hard to believe this four-bedroom slice of domestic bliss once housed an intercontinental ballistic missile. Talk about a fixer-upper.
  • Eccentric renovators Edward and Dianna Peden have worked hard to convert the space into something that promotes peace. The missile control centre is now their living room, and other rooms contain drums and a stage, a hot tub and sauna, and even a ceremonial stone circle.
  • This isn’t the first time the Pedens have undertaken this kind of renovation. For twenty-one years, they’ve made a good living acquiring and renovating former missile sites and have owned over fifty-seven.

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