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Magic video of a beautiful mansion in Mallorca.

Palm Tree Mansion

Lymm Water tower house is an awesome and unique family house, designed by Ellis William Architects, it has a stunning design for the interior and exterior, a perfect combination of form and function. The Harris family commissioned EWA to convert a derelict water tower into a contemporary family home. The product was a minimalist interjection within the former tower and a circular extension housing the main living spaces. Beautiful!

Neighbors upset over hot pink house

The Klein Bottle House is located in Rye, Australia and designed by Rob McBride. the unusual home design was inspired by its namesake: the klein bottle. this 19th century invention is used to describe a form which has no distinguishable inside or outside. the architects also wanted to move away from the paradigm of designing buildings based on orthogonal methods and instead imbrace the complexity inhernt with computer aided design (cad). while the desigm imbraced mathematics and digital design it also references
the vernacular australian cement sheet beach house. the house recently won the Harold Desbrowe-Annear award in architecture. it is made from concrete sheets and black metal, which are both folded and twisted
to create the multitude of angles.

According to the UK Sun, a couple hope to make £500,000 selling their mobile home — as it’s covered in art by Banksy.

Nathan Welland, 37, and Maeve Neal, 34, met Banksy through pals ten years ago when he was an unknown street artist.

He used their trailer to paint a 30ft by 7ft mural of commandos with a stereo and scenes including a monkey playing drums.

Banksy’s fans now include stars like Brad Pitt, so the couple and their four kids, of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, are auctioning their two-bed trailer to buy a bigger home.

Last year a Banksy painting sold for £288,000, and art dealer William Burroughs said: “The pieces are unique, and the big picture could make a record price.”

Aren’t you glad these people aren’t your neighbors?

From Wired:

Nothing quite prepares you for the culture shock of Jay Walker’s library. You exit the austere parlor of his New England home and pass through a hallway into the bibliographic equivalent of a Disney ride. Stuffed with landmark tomes and eye-grabbing historical objects—on the walls, on tables, standing on the floor—the room occupies about 3,600 square feet on three mazelike levels. Is that a Sputnik? (Yes.) Hey, those books appear to be bound in rubies. (They are.) That edition of Chaucer … is it a Kelmscott? (Natch.) Gee, that chandelier looks like the one in the James Bond flick Die Another Day. (Because it is.)

No matter where you turn in this ziggurat, another treasure beckons you—a 1665 Bills of Mortality chronicle of London (you can track plague fatalities by week), the instruction manual for the Saturn V rocket (which launched the Apollo 11 capsule to the moon), a framed napkin from 1943 on which Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined his plan to win World War II. In no time, your mind is stretched like hot taffy.

Clingstone, an unusual, 103-year-old mansion in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay, survives through the love and hard work of family and friends. Via Grow-a-Brain

This custom, 3,200-square-foot home in pricey Redondo Beach, Calif., was built mostly from shipping containers in an attempt to hold down building costs. The home, designed by Peter DeMaria, still retains the marine-grade plywood floors originally found in the six containers, which serve as bedrooms and bathrooms.

Shipping containers provide home in a box

Nit Wit Ridge is a house built entirely of junk located between San Francisco and LA near the Pacific Ocean. It is considered a fine example of folk art and is a California State Historic Landmark. It was built by one man (Arthur Harold Beal) over the course of 51 years.

Art began his creation in 1928 by digging out a hillside in Cambria. He used rocks, abalone shells, wood, beer cans, tile, car parts and other assorted junk to create his “Hearst Castle”.

Nit Wit Ridge is in Cambria (881 Hillcrest Drive), about 20 minutes north of Cayucos. Tours are available from the owners (Michael and Stacey O’Malley) by calling 805-927-2690. To get there, take highway 1 north to Cambria. Turn right at Main Street and continue through East Village into West Village. Turn right on Cornwall Street and then right again on Hillcrest Drive.

Via Weird Universe

What better way to celebrate the closing of Weep Week in Memphis than to look at some Elvis real estate for sale.

Scary Elvis’ Graceland replica for sale in L.A. for only $999,000.

It’s located at 17912 Parthenia St, Los Angeles, CA 91325, and has 3 bedrooms and 3 baths.

I wonder if it comes furnished?

And a REAL Elvis house for sale in Palm Springs.

The 5,000-square-foot estate at 845 W. Chino Canyon Road was bought by beloved music legend Elvis Presley in April 1970. He paid $85,000 for it, according to previous Desert Sun reports. According to the Wall Street Journal, it’s now on the market again for $17M. Right.

Elvis Honeymoon House photo tour

Off the Map gives you an opportunity to enter a unique view of the world as seen through the eyes of ten incredible visionaries. Once you are inspired by their vision, be sure to build your own online backyard paradise and share it with Unusual Life.

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Weird Houses of Utah (most from Strange Cosmos).

Weird Houses in LA link