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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?” where [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Friday, March 12, 2010 at 11:25 am
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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 Monday, November 2, 2009 at 10:30 am
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 European Russia, [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Monday, October 12, 2009 at 8:33 am
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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 Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 11:28 am
Filed under All Houses, Off the ground, 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.