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Feeling the pressure of the Big Smoke and wanting to escape? You could now get on the property ladder for less than £20,000 – although it might not be quite the dream home you had in mind. A rare opportunity to acquire a piece of Cold War-related architecture has presented itself up north – in the form of a nuclear bunker. Located in Sedbergh in Cumbria, the listing was described by agents as a ‘once in a generation opportunity’. It will soon go up for auction, with a guide price of £15,000 to £20,000Yes, it is essentially £20,000 for one room underground – but you’d be buying a piece of history. Also known as a Royal Observer...

When Oliver Russell saw the island for the first time, it was coated in powdery white snow. Bundled in thick layers, he and his girlfriend trudged 150 feet across a frozen lake to reach the uninhabited outcrop of land — one of more than 178,000 islands in Finland. Russell, a 24-year-old college student who's half-American and half-Finnish, knew they'd made it to solid ground when the snow felt noticeably firmer. He and his girlfriend — Helena Tomaszewska, 20 — found a relatively flat spot nestled among the 2.5 acres of hills and trees. The couple lit a small campfire and cooked some sausages they'd brought with them on the three-hour drive from Helsinki. Except for...

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It’s official: Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have put their sprawling marital home in California on the market. The move follows much speculation about their marriage being on the rocks, and the telling reappearance of listing photos for the Beverly Hills mansion reappearing on the property’s Zillow profile, as The Post previously reported.   (An aerial view of the property.@CelebCandidly / MEGA)   Now, hardly a year since they purchased the 12-bedroom, 24-bathroom, 38,000-square-foot behemoth, it’s formally back on the market as of Thursday, Mansion Global reported. The power couple — who wed in 2022 — spent months house-hunting, and years of...

The Bosphorus Bridge connects Europe and Asia at Istanbul but costs just 36p to cross. Renamed Martyrs' Bridge in July 2016 after an attempted coup in Turkey when a Turkish army faction occupied the crossing, the structure is one of three bridges across the BosphorusThis strait runs between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara, forming part of the boundary between Asia and Europe as well as a major route to the Mediterranean Sea for countries including Ukraine. Three bridges cross the strait, with the first - the Martyrs’ Bridge - built in 1973; the second - the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge - was completed in 1988, and the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge opened in 2016. Martyrs' Bridge's deck...

Mystery lurks everywhere. Like an undersea treasure box, it lurches in every object, whispering sweet nothings in spaces long abandoned. From closed attics to vintage journals, mystery hangs in everything. At least, this is what Mr. Jimmie Smith would think, from now on, each time he looks at anything. He found this mystery and hit the jackpot, literally, in one of the shirts hanging in his closet. And this mystery turned out to be a 24-million-dollar winning lottery ticket, according to NJ.comHe claimed a $24.1 million New York lottery jackpot two days before the ticket was due to expire after seeing a story on the evening news about how time was running out for the winner to step...

In a Minneapolis suburb, this low-key funky residence that played a small part in pop culture history is seeking its next owner. Located in the city of Golden Valley, the four-bedroom abode has only had two owners since being constructed 39 years ago: Its current sellers, and the late great rock star Prince. It asks $699,900. The legendary “Purple Rain” singer, songwriter, producer and Minnesota native, who was born Prince Rogers Nelson, purchased the property in 1985 and had this home custom-built there for his mother, Mattie Della Shaw Baker. She lived there until she died, at the age of 68, in 2002.   (One of two fireplaces.Matt Sari, Square Feet Floor...

Turkey is experiencing a massive drop in tourism with hotels left empty as tourists reportedly head to Greece instead. On April 1, 2024, Greece launched visas on arrival for Turkish visitors and under this scheme Turkish citizens are entitled to visit 10 Greek islands with an express visa for up to seven days.This has caused the number of Turkish tourists in Greece to surge while many hotel rooms in Turkish resorts are said to have “remained empty”, according to VisaGuide.World. During the first 10 days of April, the islands of Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Kos and Rhodes combined welcomed 20,690 Turkish tourists, many of whom in previous years when it was trickier to secure visas are...

A notorious New Orleans manse is seeking a new owner — one who’s undaunted by its dark history. The Big Easy’s legendary Lalaurie mansion has hit the market, with seller and energy trader Michael Whalen seeking $10.25 million for the historic, ghost story-steeped Empire Style estate, the Wall Street Journal first reported. The over 10,000-square-foot eight-bedroom abode has long been rumored to be haunted, and is a fixture of many paranormal tours of the town. “I’m Catholic, and that kind of stuff doesn’t scare me,” the mostly Texas-based Whalen told the Journal. Whalen — who purchased the 10-bathroom property for approximately $2.1 million...

Sylvester Stallone and, later, Vogue food columnist and cookbook author Barbara Kafka once called this sun-filled modernist house in upstate New York home, and now it can be yours for $4.3 million. Located at 40 High Ridge Road in Garrison, New York, and built in 1969, the flat-roofed home was recently gut-renovated by the Brooklyn-based design firm Madderlake. The “Rocky” star owned the river-view residence in the late 1980s, and Kafka picked it up in 1999 and lived there until 2015. The current owner is Shea Spencer, founder of the management agency Artist Commissions; she rents out theproperty for photoshoots with major brands, including Marc Jacobs and Bergdorf Goodman,...