With December 21 - or 'the end of the world' as it is being referred to in some camps - fast approaching, Doomsday 'preppers' are putting the final touches to bunkers where they will ride out the Apocalypse.
The Mayan calendar has predicted that in just 38 days the world will end - but fear not, if you have so far been unprepared.
Bunkers have already been built around the world to withstand impending doom and despite some rather shabby and gloomy interiors, they may soon be in high demand if predictions ring true.
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Doomed? The Adirondack Missile Silo in upstate New York may not have the most welcoming of decors but at least its apocalypse-proof
Out of this world: Pionen high-security computer storage in Stockholm, Sweden where WikiLeaks keep servers, is a nuclear shelter
Starting again in Atlantis: The Hilton Hotel in the Maldives offers luxury underwater suites where you can chill with the fishes while things get scary on dry land
America is dotted with bunkers - several working and others long out of use and turned into quirky museums and hotels.
At the height of nuclear tensions with Cuba and the Soviets in the early Sixties, JFK built a bunker on Peanut Island, across from his family's Florida compound. It has now been turned into a museum.
More luxurious options are also available. The Hilton Hotel in the Maldives offers underwater suites, with a view of marine life and where guests can wait out the apocalypse in the lap of luxury with a large comfortable bed and complimentary fruit baskets.
The declassified bunker at Greenbrier, West Virginia has been turned into a four-star hotel, carved deep into a mountainside.
Long way down: The Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler shelter was tunneled out beneath vineyards in Germany
Camp Camelot: The Kennedy bunker on Peanut Island close to Port of Palm Beach in Florida, was built in 1961 during heightened nuclear tensions with Cuba. It is now a museum
Welcome to the family: JFK's bunker features the presidential seal and a desk from where the free world can be ran
Bunking in style: The Greenbrier Bunker, West Virginia, is a declassified Cold War bunker that has now been turned into a four-star hotel
In Sweden, the bunker deep in the middle of a mountain, where Wikileaks stores its servers, also doubles as a secure spot to wait out an apocalypse - getting invited in is the only problem.
The Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler shelter was tunneled out beneath vineyards in western Germany as a hideout for the government in the event of a nuclear war.
In the Adirondack Mountains, just a few hours drive from New York City, is a former Cold War missile base with its own runway set on 19 acres of land.
If you are taking your Doomsday planning seriously it can be all yours for the asking price of $1.76million.
Deeper underground: 'Silo House' in New York is bomb-proof and has a runway for easy access
Mission control: The central hub including kitchen at Silo House in the Adirondack mountains
Bunking in: Silo House in on the market for $1.76 million for those taking Doomsday preparations seriously
Where secrets hideaway: The Pionen facility is deep inside a mountain in Sweden
Preparing for the worst: Dixia Cheng is an entire underground city which exists below Beijing in China
National Geographic's new series Doomsday Preppers interviews ordinary Americans who are planning for the end of the world with tactics including year-long stockpiles of dried food, collecting rain water and storing weapons.
The Mayan tribes of South America are believed by some to have been privy to impending disasters that coincide with 2012, ranging from explosive storms on the surface of the sun that could knock out power grids to a galactic alignment that could trigger a reversal in Earth's magnetic field.
Experts met in September to quell fears that the end of the world is nigh and Mayan prophecies have been misinterpreted.
Archaeologists and anthropologists gathered in the southern Mexico city of Merida to discuss the implications of the calendar, which is made up of 394-year periods called baktuns, and had named the end date as December 21.
Gloomy: The warren of tunnels beneath the Chinese city are currently being given a makeover
Willkommen! The austere bunker nestled deep below a vineyard in West Germany is now a museum
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I will sit on the roof of my appartment which is 12 stocks high and enjoy the show with a beer and popcorn..
We know that it will not be the end of the World but end of the World that we know and beginning of the New World that we will live in