Houses

The owners of this Victorian-era estate say it’s still visited by the spirits of long-gone residents.

The best revenge is a five-tiered layer cake of a dwelling.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

The future civil rights leader grew up in this Alabama farmhouse.

An interim housing alternative to FEMA trailers that is designed for densely populated areas during recovery and rebuilding following a natural disaster.

The resolution to a case that had gone cold for 120 years, found on an old piece of wood.

This 17th-century house has a long and colorful history.

Descendants of the samurai who guarded Matsusaka Castle during the Edo period still live in these charming historic houses (and visitors can enter one of them for free).

This centuries-old mansion was the home of the noted 19th-century diarist Anne Lister (aka “Gentleman Jack”).

The ruins of a prehistoric village hide on a remote Taiwanese island.

This stunningly massive housing complex is a go-to filming location for dystopian sci-fi cinema.

Once the site of seances, this restaurant is said to be haunted by several ghosts.

A neighborhood of houses made of poured concrete through a process invented by Thomas Edison.

This historic Art Nouveau townhouse was the former home of the son of a famous chemical inventor and industrialist.

This Tudor cottage is adorned with many canary-clasping cats, which originally served as a reminder to a local clergyman of his pet's murderous ways.

This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.

One of London’s rare Tudor-era buildings is a fate-defying gatehouse for a church.

A centuries-old house, once part of the wall of Granada, sports musket barrels from the battlements which allude to its original owner.