Homes

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

The home of an eccentric Edwardian gentleman is packed to the rafters with handcrafted items collected over a lifetime.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

After Christopher Columbus died, his son built a fancy house to rule from.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

A retail shop has preserved the 17th-century food cellar from the old building it now occupies.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.