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50 Strangely Made Houses In The United States

Featuring upgrades you won't see on HGTV.

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San Jose, California

The Winchester Mystery House

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester gun fortune.

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Spring Green, Wisconsin

House on the Rock

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

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Airplane Home in the Woods

This converted Boeing 727 makes a surprisingly comfortable residence for one man and his family.

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Hyattsville, Maryland

Vanadu Art House

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

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Golden, Colorado

Sculptured House

This iconic science fiction house still looks like something from the future.

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Hillsborough, North Carolina

Myers House

One killer horror movie fan has built an exact recreation of Michael Myers' childhood home.

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Crossville, Tennessee

Minister's Treehouse

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

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Alexandria, Virginia

Hollensbury Spite House

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

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Smith Mansion

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

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Santa Barbara, California

Whale House

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

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Casa Neverlandia

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

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Casa de Azucar

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

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Carrabelle, Florida

Carrabelle Bottle House

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

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Brooklyn, New York

Bensonhurst Statue House

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

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Cincinnati, Ohio

The Cincinnati Mushroom House

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

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Talkeetna, Alaska

Dr. Seuss House aka The Goose Creek Tower

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

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Malvern, Pennsylvania

Wharton Esherick Museum

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

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Fountain City, Wisconsin

The Rock in the House

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

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Royse City, Texas

Royse City Futuro House

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

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Hillsborough, California

The Flintstone House

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

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Woodstock, Illinois

George Stickney House

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

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Los Angeles, California

Ennis House

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hill' to a robot hunter's pad.

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Memphis, Tennessee

St. Peter’s Spiritual Temple (Voodoo Village)

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

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Los Angeles, California

Chemosphere

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

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Safety Harbor, Florida

Whimzeyland

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

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Clyde's Critter Crossing

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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Hamtramck, Michigan

Hamtramck Disneyland

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

Los Angeles, California

Mosaic Tile House

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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Calistoga, California

Castello di Amorosa

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

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Tallahassee, Florida

Lichgate on High Road

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

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Santa Monica, California

Farnam House

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

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Ellensburg, Washington

Dick and Jane's Spot

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

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Medicine Bow, Wyoming

Fossil Bone Cabin

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

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Sacramento, California

Dragon House

一个看呀ntric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley Car House

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

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Antonito, Colorado

Cano's Castle

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

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Magic Mushroom House

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

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Los Angeles, California

Lummis Home ("El Alisal")

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

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Fayetteville, Georgia

Elvis Carden's Guitar House

Giant instrument-shaped home in Fayetteville, Georgia.

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Signal Mountain, Tennessee

Spaceship House

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

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Berkeley, California

Fish Shaped House

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

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Simi Valley, California

Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village

一个看呀ntric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

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Cambria, California

Nitt Witt Ridge

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

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Sandia Park, New Mexico

TinkerTown

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

Monticello, Utah

Hole n" the Rock

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Detroit, Michigan

Heidelberg Project

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

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Alpharetta, Georgia

The Dwarf Castle

A man's home is his castle.

Bishop Castle

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

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