Historic ‘Pirate-Inspired’ Florida Keys Home Lists for $2 Million—as Owner Warns Area Is Losing Its Unique Charm to Faceless ‘Concrete Bunkers’

Historic ‘Pirate-Inspired’ Florida Keys Home Seeks Buyer to Preserve Style as ‘Faceless Concrete Structures’ Are Built

When Dubravka Wahl first laid eyes on her unique Florida home in 2023, she instantly fell in love. Not just with the prime beachfront location and double-lot property—but with the unique pirate-inspired architecture that lent the property its signature Keys feel. “It was absolutely gorgeous,” she recalls of the $2 million home, which is suitably … Read more

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘House of Dynamite’ Brings Nuclear Danger but Homeowners Have Already Been Digging In. What’s the ROI on Backyard Bunkers?

Kitchen in an underground bunker with windows to painted backyard scenes. Credit: Rooted Elements Media 

Kathryn Bigelow’s new movie, “A House of Dynamite,” lands on Netflix this weekend with a bang. In her latest, the Oscar-winning director behind “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty” takes on the unthinkable: a nuclear strike on American soil.  But for many, that premise no longer feels like fiction, and fears of potential nuclear … Read more