Homes

This elderly couple's hand-picked collection of rare gems is one of the finest in all of Iceland.

This rough experimental house was created by flooding a dirt hill with concrete.

A small Australian farmhouse became an international icon after appearing on a Midnight Oil album cover.

Pablo Neruda's custom-built lover's nest was made to remind him of the sea and named after his mistress' hair.

This jam-packed Singapore antique museum preserves the fading remnants of a uniquely mixed culture.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

A geometric jumble of homes.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.