The hottest real estate in Switzerland right now might well be the country's estimated 261,418 bomb shelters. Ever since the cold war, the Swiss have been required either to have a bomb shelter in their homes or to pay roughly $900 for a place in a communal bunker. (The 1962 law states: "For every Swiss, a shelter.") Over the years, as fears over nuclear attacks faded, these shelters have morphed into storage closets, wine cellars, saunas, bars, bowling alleys and at least in one case a massive pizza oven.
But now Swiss authorities are urging the...
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