Casa di Giulietta: Juliet’s House in Verona
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 26, 2016
Shakespeare’s famous play “Romeo and Juliet” maybe a work of fiction, but that hasn’t stopped hundreds of thousands of romantics from making...
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Girard Henderson’s Luxurious Cold War Era Underground Bomb Shelter
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2016
During the Cold War, the US government launched a country-wide effort to prepare its citizens for a possible thermonuclear war. Children wer...
Rock in The House, Fountain City
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2016
On April 24, 1995, a 55-ton boulder rolled down a hill and crashed into the bedroom of the house of Maxine and Dwight Anderson at 440 North ...
The Crooked House of Himley
Kaushik Patowary
May 24, 2016
The Crooked House, so called because of its lean, is a curious little attraction and a local watering hole located close to the village of H...
The Crooked House of Canterbury
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2016
Sir John Boys House, also known as The Crooked House, is a skewed 17th century half-timbered building located at the extreme end of Palace S...
Blackhouses of Scotland
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2016
Hundreds of years ago the highlands of Scotland and Ireland were dotted with a type of dwelling called blackhouses. These were long narrow b...
Clingstone: The House on The Rock
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2016
Perched on top of a small, rocky island in Narragansett Bay, near Jamestown, Rhode Island, the United States, is a three-story, cedar shingl...
This Ordinary House Has an Outrageous Interior
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2016
This ordinary looking middle-class house in Newport, Oregon, with creamy white siding, yellowed brick, and a two-car garage blends perfectly...
The Gregynog Hall of Tregynon
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2016
The historic Gregynog Hall in the village of Tregynon, in Wales, UK, is a large country mansion whose brilliant black-and-white timber-frame...
Upside Down Houses Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 28, 2015
A clichéd yet popular tourist attraction that never fails to amuse is an upside down house, with a faithfully reproduced exterior and interi...
Casa Terracota: The Clay House
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 23, 2015
This misshapen adobe colored house, located in Villa de Leyva, a colonial mountain village 95 miles north of Bogota, Colombia, was built by ...
Pavlov’s House in Volgograd
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2015
On the banks of river Volga in the heart of modern-day Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, stands a four-story apartment building with a brick m...
The Log House of Nikolay Sutyagin
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2015
Not many years ago, in northern Russia, on the outskirts of the city of Archangel, by the Dvina River, stood a tall wooden house — a whimsic...
James Turrell’s Roden Crater
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2015
If you thought building a house on top of an extinct volcano was cool, how about building one on the inside? That’s what artist James Turre...
The Volcano House of Newberry Springs
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2015
The Volcano House is a flying-saucer-shaped house that sits atop a 150-foot tall cinder cone of an extinct volcano in the western Mojave Des...
The Crooked Houses of Lavenham
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2015
There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat,...
The 1,000 Year Old ‘Agate House’ Made of Petrified Wood
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2015
Petrified wood is the fossilized remains of trees and other vegetation where the organic materials have been completely replaced with minera...
Castle Meur: The House Between The Rocks, Plougrescant
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2014
Castel Meur, also known as La Maison du Gouffre or “the house between the rocks”, is a charming cottage wedged between two huge jagged rock...
The Crooked House of Windsor
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2014
While many crooked houses are deliberately built crooked for visitor attraction, the one that stands at market square in Windsor, in England...
The Painted Houses of The Ndebeles
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2014
The Ndebeles are an African ethnic group living in South Africa and Zimbabwe known for their artistic talent, especially with regard to thei...
