People these days often forget just how close the world was to complete and utter annihilation during the Cold War. In those days, the average person was at a heightened state of alert pretty much constantly. And incessant paranoia can make people do some crazy things — things like building enormous bomb shelters into hillsides made from the frames of old school buses. That's exactly what Bruce Beach did. Beach (pictured below) began construction on the Ark Two shelter during the early 1980s in the small Canadian village of Horning's Mills, which is just north of Toronto.

The shelter includes two commercial kitchens and a full plumbing system with a private well and septic tank, as well as a radio room, chapel, and decontamination chamber.

The shelter also has a deployable antenna that is capable of transmitting radio waves all over North America.