Eccentric Homes

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Three buildings constructed of over 25,000 multicolored glass bottles.

This tiny cabin was home to one of Iceland's most famous painters and was the only land he ever owned.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

These eclectic homes nestled into the cliffs of a Caribbean island were built entirely from scavenged materials.

This wooden home was built in West Virginia by a Scottish immigrant before being moved to an Israeli winery.

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Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

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A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.