Showing posts with the label House

Casa di Giulietta: Juliet’s House in Verona

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...

Girard Henderson’s Luxurious Cold War Era Underground Bomb Shelter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...