The Trulli Houses of Alberobello
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2014
The small town of Alberobello in the province of Bari, in the southern region of Puglia, in Italy, displays some remarkable examples of a tr...
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The House on Towan Island, Newquay
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2014
Just a few meters off the British coast near Newquay in Cornwell, lies the tiny Towan island. Perched at the top of this 80 feet high rocky ...
Edith Macefield's Legendary House in Seattle
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 19, 2014
In the corner between Northwest 46th Street and 15th Avenue, in Ballard, Seattle, wedged between a Trader Joe's and an LA Fitness, lies ...
The Painted Ladies of San Francisco
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2013
The famous Painted Ladies of San Francisco are a row of colorful Victorian houses located at 710–720 Steiner Street, across from Alamo Squar...
The Last House on Holland Island
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2013
Holland Island is located in the Chesapeake Bay in Holland Strait, between Bloodsworth Island and Smith Island, six miles west of Wenona, Ma...
Fujian Tulou: Ancient Earthen Castles of China
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2013
Fujian Tulou is a collection of earthen houses, impenetrable by outsiders, built between the 12th and the 20th centuries, located in the mou...
Gasometers of Vienna: Former Gas Storage Tanks Turned Into Housing
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 20, 2013
In 1896, Viennese authorities decided to invest in large-scale gas and electric utilities to provide the townsfolk with coal gas for stoves,...
House in The Middle of The Drina River
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2013
A solitary house on the Drina River in Serbia has been attracting curious travelers from across the globe, after an image of the house was p...
Ancient Ice Houses of Iran
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 29, 2013
Before the invention of the refrigerator, which is a relatively modern invention, ice was a precious commodity that couldn’t be easily obtai...
Abandoned Farmhouse Transformed Into Life Size Dollhouse
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2012
Canadian artist Heather Benning has turned an abandoned farm house she found in 2005 in Manitoba, Canada, into a life-sized dollhouse. Mi...
The Toughest Nail Houses of China
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2012
Remember the Chinese homeowner Luo Baogen and his wife, who refused to move his house to make way for a redevelopment project? The house st...
Polish Architect Builds World’s Thinnest House
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 31, 2012
Polish architect Jakub Szczesny claims to have built the world’s narrowest house, just 122 centimetres across. The house is squeezed into an...
Solvay Hut: A Precarious Mountain Hut at Matterhorn, Switzerland
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2012
The Solvay Hut is located on the north-eastern ridge of the Matterhorn, near Zermatt in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. At 4,003 meters...
World's Littlest Skyscraper
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2011
Located at 701 LaSalle Street in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas, is the Newby-McMahon Building, a smallish structure 10 feet by 18 feet in ar...
Massive Tree House in Crossville, Tennessee: The Largest in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 30, 2011
A Crossville, TN (US) minister named Horace Burgess owns the largest tree house in the world. It rises 97 feet into the sky, the support pro...
Captain Robert Scott’s Hut in Antarctica
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2011
Robert Falcon Scott’s hut is located on the north shore of Cape Evans on Ross Island in Antarctica. It was erected in 1911 by the ill-fated ...
Upside Down House in Germany
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2011
Dirk Oster, an investor living in Hamburg, Germany, commissioned carpenters Gerhard Mordhorst, Gesellse Splettstößer and Manfred Kolax to bu...
The House in the Island of Elliðaey
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2011
If there ever is an ultimate holiday getaway location, it has to be the island of Elliðaey near Vestmannaeyjar, a small archipelago off the ...
The Most Expensive House in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2010
India’s richest man, who is also the fourth richest in the world, Mukesh Ambani along with his wife and three children has recently moved in...
The house made from one log
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 28, 2008
The One-Log house in Garberville, California, is a house made out of a single huge redwood log. It was built in 1946 and took 2 men eight mo...
