Houses

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.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.

Made famous by 'Star Wars,' these troglodyte homes face an uncertain future.

The small Scottish townhouse where the "Father of the National Parks" was born.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

Not actually a shop, but one fan's passionate show of support for a rival county's Gaelic football team.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.