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Leadenhall Wunderkammer
51.5128, -0.0835
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Tugendamt und Pizzarand (Virtue Office and Pizza Crust)
52.4163, 13.1969
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Red Barrels Historical Memorial
7.5582, 99.9329
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Amelia Island Pirate Voyages
30.6712, -81.4649
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Mountain View, Hawaii
Treehouse at Kīlauea
A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.
Théoule-sur-Mer, France
Pierre Cardin's Bubble House
Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.
St. Louis, Missouri
Grant's Farm
What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.
New Orleans, Louisiana
House of Broel
An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.
Kuwait City, Kuwait
House of Mirrors
Lived-in building, bedecked with an astonishing array of mirror mosaics.
Herriman, Utah
The "Up" House
A replica that won't float away.
Signal Mountain, Tennessee
Spaceship House
Live long and prosper in Tennessee.
Cairo, Egypt
Cairo’s Garbage City
Slum Settlement Filled With Mountains of Garbage.
Abuja, Nigeria
Abuja Airplane House
A labor of love and aviation in Nigeria.
Alberobello, Italy
Alberobello
Southern Italy's spinning top village.
Mumbai, India
Antilia
World's most expensive home.
Hilversum, Netherlands
Tree Trunk Garden House
Dutch woodpile home in the forest.
Irbeysky District, Russia
House of Evgeny Smolik
A self-taught Siberian craftsman creates a fantastical and personal design for his 19th century village house.
Louveciennes, France
The Standing Stones House
One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.
Berkeley, California
Fish Shaped House
A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.
Tianjin, China
Ceramic House
A clay house decorated with ceramic chips in Tianjin.
Büren, Germany
Castle of Wewelsburg
This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.
Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain
Setenil De Las Bodegas
A Spanish town built into the cliffs.
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