Thursday, March 18th, 2010

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 [...]

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.    [...]

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, [...]

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.”

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.