Homes

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.

A Spanish artist builds his own castle.

A quirky house created entirely out of glass bottles combines a collector's spirit with an artist's flair.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

An underground city of salt.

The Gaudí-inspired building that was the start of Terrassenc modernism.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.