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In the desert town of Boulder City, Nevada, there is a house that I think we’d all like to visit. The Pirates Cove is a swashbuckling delight that is made up of pirate decor, several pools, a water slide, and more. I think I heard about a similar house on HGTV’s “What’s With That House?” [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 11:00 pm
Filed under All Houses, Strange Mansions · Tagged with Boulder City Nevada, Criag Tillotson, desert town, fun place, lots of money, Nevada, NuSkin, Pirate homes, pirate ships, Pirates Cove, strange homes, theme park attraction, tillotson, vacation spots in Nevada, vacation spots., weird houses
In 1979, Michael Kahn and Leda Livant moved to a rural three-acre plot of land in Cornville, Arizona. Allowed to stay on the property rent-free, Kahn and Livant started building what would become Eliphante immediately, living in an 8′ x 10′ wooden shack that Michael had thrown up to keep them safe during the winter. [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Filed under All Houses, Shaped like something else, Strange Mansions · Tagged with Arizona, art, artistic, canoe, cornville arizona, dementia, Eliphante, Eliphante LTD, found art, found items, Hippodome, home, house, houses in Arizona, Kahn, Livant, michael kahn, no bathroom, only accessible by water, plot of land, running water, stream, toilet, tragedy romance, unique, winter palace
The World’s Tallest Log Cabin – The Wooden Skyscraper photo by the constant skeptic He is Nikolai Sutyagin. He is a man who has seen it all. Well, if not “all”, he’s seen quite a lot. He was born and raised in a lowly communal flat in Arkhangelsk, Russia. That’s in the northern part of [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 2:00 pm
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Dar Al-Hajar is open to the public now as a sort of museum, though the Yemen travel website says that its “only jewel is the building itself.”
Posted by Strange Houses on Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Filed under All Houses, Strange Mansions · Tagged with ala allah, architecture, art, beautiful place, castles, cool, dar al hajar, mansions, museum, palaces, rock, rock drawings, stream, travel website, yemen travel
Sarah died in 1922, leaving an unfinished, sprawling mansion with 13 bathrooms, 40 bedrooms, 2 ballrooms, and a few quirks. Sarah was obsessed with the number 13, so all the windows had 13 panes, and the number 13 carries through many of the details of the house.
Donald Trump, mogul and TV personality, sold his 80,000 square foot mansion in Palm Beach, Florida for a whopping $95 million dollars, in July of 2008. The buyer was one Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian fertilizer businessman who is worth about $12.8 billion dollars. Rybolovlev, who was number 59 on Forbes’s list of the richest people [...]
Posted by bigoak on Monday, June 27, 2011 at 12:20 am
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The Whaley House was built in 1857 on land that formerly held gallows. It is not only the most haunted house in America, it was even haunted before it was built. The first ghost to roam the area where the rooms would be built was that of James “Yankee Jim” Robinson. But we’ll get to [...]
Posted by Elizabeth on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 12:38 am
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We posted a pic of this before, but here you have a guest post on the Toilet House! What happens when you combine an architect, activism, and a latrine? Don’t be alarmed. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you; that is a toilet-shaped house and it’s real. Sim Jae-Duck, an architect from Seoul, Korea, is the mastermind [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 8:00 am
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In May of 2010 the internet was crawling with articles about a fantastic mansion, inn, marina, restaurant, and private beach for sale in Massachusetts. The property (kit and kaboodle) once belonged to the Bancrofts and the Barrons – Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal heirs. Later, a smart and very rich investor named Peter Roy [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 7:00 am
Filed under All Houses, castles, Celebrity Homes, Strange Mansions · Tagged with Acre, alderwood, art, bancrofts, beach, Canada, cohasset harbor inn, cook dinner, dow jones, frank sinatra, FrankSinatra, house, houses, mansion inn, marina restaurant, Massachusetts, mid 1930s, nine acres, olde salt, outbuildings, private beach, private residence, related articles, river marina, roof deck, service elevator, square foot, Travel and Tourism, United States, wall street journal, wet bar
If there weren’t already enough reasons to visit Barcelona, Spain, now you have another one. Casa Batllo is situated at 43 Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia in Barcelona, and it is open for tours to the lucky traveler. The structure itself was built in 1877, but remodeled and finished in 1906 [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 8:18 am
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