Apple 2 house

Scientists wanted to know how typical 1950s-style houses would hold up in the face of a nuclear blast, so they built several out in the desert of the Nevada Test Site -- now known as the Nevada National Security Site -- to find out. The houses, some two-story, some three-story, included a basement and a bomb shelter. They also constructed an electrical transformer station, a propane tank filling station, a radio station, a weigh station, and other small structures, according to a Nevada National Security Site fact sheet.

This house was constructed about a mile from the 1955 detonation of a 29-kiloton weapon called Apple 2, that had been placed atop at 500-foot tower. The house, although it appears to have been singed on the outside, and some of the interior was damaged, largely survived intact.