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Homes

Illuminated at night by 97,000 bulbs

Mysore Palace

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

Honolulu, Hawaii

Shangri La

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

Vienna, Austria

Stephansdom Crypt

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Burk's Falls, Ontario

Midlothian Castle

A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.

Permanently Closed

Cambria, California

Nitt Witt Ridge

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Hammond Castle Museum

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

The Gala Dalí Castle

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

Largs, Scotland

Kelburn Castle

This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.

Newquay, England

The Island, Newquay

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

Phoenix, Arizona

Mystery Castle

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Quilmes, Argentina

Casa de Botellas 'La Fortaleza'

An artist's statement of new uses for ordinary and discarded materials.

Bournemouth, England

Russell-Cotes Museum

A museum based on the collection of a Victorian family. Housed in a remaining Victorian villa.

Photographed by Arpad Horvath, June 2006

Székesfehérvár, Hungary

Bory Castle

Hungarian self-built castle.

Permanently Closed

The tree house exterior

Crossville, Tennessee

Minister's Treehouse

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

The Garden of Eden

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

Williams, Oregon

Arborsmith Studios

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

Sandia Park, New Mexico

TinkerTown

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

Sarasota, Florida

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.