Nuclear missile base on eBay

A former US intercontinental nuclear missile base - with a network of underground tunnels and silos - is on sale on eBay for £750,000. Titan Missile Base Central Washington - (eBay item 190132455924

Located in a remote corner of Washington state, the 56-acre site is being marketed as a "gorgeous" property and potential resort, reports the BBC.

Bari Hotchkiss bought the base 10 years ago from owners who obtained it in the 1970s after the US government deemed the Titan missile system obsolete.

"The only limit is imagination. We've always wanted to see it turn into a summer camp or resort camp," he said.

"Most of those former bases are much much smaller, and most all of them have water problems with water leaking in them.

"So they're filled with water or so wet there is terrible rust, and ours is dry. Portions of our missile base look like it's built last year."

The website Missilebases.com describes the buildings as "castles of the 20th century".

Designed to withstand nuclear attack, these unique properties "bring new meaning to the word 'shelter'," it says.