For many of us, home is a cozy place to eat, sleep and unwind after a hard day at work. We buy various knick-knacks, look for furniture and beautiful wallpaper to make everything our own way, in fact there is no fundamental difference between our home and the neighbor's home. But the 10 houses presented in our rating go beyond the "4 walls" and are distinguished by the originality and breadth of imagination of their creators.

The most unusual houses in the world

The Belgian town of Stenokerzel is famous not only for its unpronounceable name, but also for its house located in an old water tower. It belongs to the director of one company, Patrick Mets. All his life, Patrick dreamed of living in such a tower. And his dream came true! The tower has 6 floors, its height is about 30 m. Mets purchased the building for $43,000. Leaving the interior layout unchanged, the new owner entrusted the interior of his house to designer Mauro Brigham, who brought the premises into a residential look.

9. Malator

This house is often called underground, which is not entirely true: only the roof and 2 side walls are underground. At the same time, it surprisingly harmoniously fits into and resembles the holes of the hobbits from The Lord of the Rings. Malator was built back in 1998 and managed to gain popularity - his pictures were even in Forbes magazine.

8. The narrowest house

One of the narrowest houses in the world is located in Warsaw. If you decide to find it, you will have to not blink so as not to miss it - the width of the house is about 1.5 meters. Its author is the Polish architect Yakov Szczesny. He responded to the request of his friend, an Israeli writer who came to Poland every year for a few days and asked him to find him some small corner.

When viewed from the side, the house has a triangular shape. To get into it, you first need to climb the stairs (second photo from the left). On the ground floor there is a kitchen, shower and toilet. The bedroom and desk (far right) are on the second floor. You can climb there using the ladder attached to the right wall.

7. Forest sphere

Many children dream of having a tree house. But if childhood has passed, but the dream remains, then the "Sphere of the Free Spirit", as the Canadian Tom Chudley called his invention, is at your service. He founded a whole company that is engaged in the production of such housing. Also exists hotel of 4 room-spheres, which allows everyone to temporarily plunge into the life of a forest hermit.

6. House of a skateboarder

This house is every skateboarder's dream. The idea belongs to Pierre Andre Senizergue, a professional skater. And the designer Gilles Lebont Delapointe and the famous architect Francois Perrin were able to realize his plan. Initially, this house was presented to the public at an exhibition in Paris, and later recreated on the land of Senizerg himself in Malibu. The unusual interior of the dwelling allows Pierre to stay in shape, turning everyday movements around the house into a workout.

5. Transparent house - an introvert's nightmare

It's nice to deal with open people who have nothing to hide: in Tokyo, commissioned by a young childless couple, design company Sou Fujimoto Architects created a completely transparent house. This is not just an ordinary house with glass walls - its design is very original and, according to the authors of the project, should resemble life on a tree. A bunch of small venues located at different heights and interconnected by small stairs flowing into each other.

The answer to a legitimate question: the house has curtains that allow you to retire or turn on appropriate censorship.

4. Cardboard house

Shigeru Ban is a famous Japanese architect, sometimes referred to as the cardboard samurai - he uses cardboard in many of his projects. Shigeru was able to build a bridge that can support up to 1.5 tons of weight from recycled paper, cardboard and wood. Also among his works is a museum contemporary art in Russia, an exhibition hall in Germany, homes for those who lost their homes during a natural disaster, and even an entire cardboard cathedral in Christchurch.

The main material of all these buildings, you guessed it, is cardboard pipes. To protect against water and fire, they are covered with a layer of polyurethane. Although living in a cardboard house is not as exciting as living in a free spirit realm, Shigeru Ban deserves a high place in our ranking: his bold experiments in finding new building materials and using recycled materials help solve the world's problems. Shigeru received the Pritzker Prize in 2014.

3. Glass house

This creation of the great architect of the twentieth century, Philip Johnson, is unique in that it was the first among its kind. Johnson built this house as a private residence in 1946. Try to remember the traditional architecture, available building tools and materials of those years: it is not surprising that the glass house was recognized as the best work of Philip. Currently, it hosts various creative events, and from May to November it is open to tourists who can admire various art objects that belonged to the master's collection.

The Chemosphere is a spaceship-like house built in 1960 by John Lautner. It was a glorious time of the space race and aerospace fashion. The octagonal house is located on top of a steep slope, so the view from its windows is amazing - it seems that you are inside a UFO hovering in the air.

The history of the Chemosphere was not cloudless - the building passed from hand to hand and for some time was in disrepair, but gradually everything got better: in 2004, the Chemosphere was declared cultural heritage Los Angeles and was included in the ranking of the 10 best houses in this city. In addition, the growing fame of Lautner prompted admirers of his talent to carry out a high-quality reconstruction of this building.

1. Fallingwater

Before you is one of the most famous houses in the world - Fallingwater ("Fallingwater" - "Falling Water"). It was built as a private Vacation home for a wealthy family in 1937. Its author is the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. During the construction, he sought to ensure that the building fits perfectly into the landscape - during the design, he took into account all the trees, boulders, various features of the relief and, of course, the waterfall.

Wright's project was bold not only because of its ecological harmony - the building is located in such a way that it seems that it is not subject to the laws of physics. It is not surprising that the architect had to constantly "fight" with contractors who sought to "strengthen" this or that part of the house according to their own experience and understanding. However, Lloyd closely followed the work, rejecting such "help". And a year later, Fallingwater was completed. Its cost to the owners was $150,000, which is almost $2.5 million by today's standards.

Judging by these photographs, give the architect free rein and he will be able to design a building of any shape and size. We have collected 33 extraordinary houses to show you and for each you can see the position on the world map so that you can visit them live😉. Join now!

1 Surreal house/Mind House (Barcelona, ​​Spain) map

Mind House - a building located at the entrance to Park Güell, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí, is on the list world heritage UNESCO.

2 Crooked House/Krzywy Domek (Sopot, Poland) map

Located in the Polish city of Sopot, this building is a popular landmark for tourists and photographers. Inspiration for unusual shape The building came from Polish fairy tale illustrations by Jan Marcin Szanser and Per Dahlberg.

3 Stone house/Casa do Penedo (Portugal) map

The house got its name because it was built on the basis of four large boulders, which serve as its foundation, walls and ceiling. Construction began in 1972 and lasted about two years until 1974.

4 Lotus Temple (New Delhi, India) map

main temple Bahai religion in India and neighboring countries, built in 1986. A huge building made of snow-white marble in the shape of a blooming lotus flower.

5 Cathedral/Catedral Metropolitana de Brasília (Brazilia, Brazil) map

Catholic Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Brasilia. It was built in the modernist style by the famous architect Oscar Niemeyer. When designing, Oscar Niemeyer was inspired by Liverpool Cathedral. The building itself consists of 16 hyperboloid columns, symbolizing hands raised to the sky.

6 Casa Mila/La Pedrera (Barcelona, ​​Spain) map

A residential building built in 1906-1910 in Barcelona by architect Antoni Gaudi for the Mila family, one of the attractions of the Catalan capital. The design of this Gaudi building was innovative for its time: a well-thought-out natural ventilation system allows you to abandon air conditioners, interior partitions in each of the apartments in the house can be moved at your discretion, there is an underground garage.

7 Atomium/Atomium (Brussels, Belgium) map

One of the main attractions and symbol of Brussels. The Atomium was designed for the opening of the 1958 World's Fair by architect Andre Waterkeyn as a symbol of the atomic age and the peaceful uses of atomic energy.

8 Museum of Contemporary Art (Niteroi, Brazil) map

The famous architectural creation of Oscar Niemeyer in the style of modernism. The building took five years to build and was completed in 1996. A sixteen-meter concrete smooth cylindrical structure on a thin leg with a glass belt at the same time looks like a UFO and an exotic plant that has grown on the edge of a cliff.

9 Kansas City Central Library/Kansas City Library (Missouri, USA) map

For a time, the facade of the Kansas City Central Library was designed as a bookshelf made up of various books. Looked amazing)

10 The Hobbit House (Wales, UK) map

The house was built with maximum consideration environment and gave a unique opportunity to live closer to nature.

11 Solomon Guggenheim Museum/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA) map

The choice of the site for the construction of the Guggenheim Museum fell on a site adjacent to the huge green massif of Central Park between 88th and 89th streets on Fifth Avenue. When designing the building, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright departed from existing models and invited the audience to take the elevator to the top floor and descend along the internal continuous spiral, examining the exposition along the way, both on the ramp itself and in the halls adjacent to it.

12 Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain) map

The museum building was designed by American-Canadian architect Frank Gehry and opened to the public in 1997. The building was immediately recognized as one of the most spectacular deconstructivist buildings in the world. Architect Philip Johnson called it " the greatest building our time"

Located on the waterfront, the building embodies the abstract idea of ​​a futuristic ship, perhaps for interplanetary travel. He is also compared to a bird, an airplane, Superman, an artichoke, and a blossoming rose.

13 Habitat 67/Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada) map

Residential complex in Montreal, which was designed by architect Moshe Safdie in 1966-1967. The complex was built for the start of the Expo 67 exhibition, one of the largest world exhibitions of that time, the theme of which was houses and residential construction.

The cube is the basis of this structure. 354 cubes stacked on top of each other made it possible to create this gray building with 146 apartments. Most of the apartments have a private garden on the roof of the neighbor downstairs. The building style is brutalism.

14 House of Music/Casa da musica (Porto, Portugal) map

Designed by Rem Koolhaas concert hall in historical center Porto, where three city orchestras are based. The construction of a building of an unusual shape required the implementation of new engineering solutions. It was carried out in 2001-2005. in connection with the performance of Porto as the European Capital of Culture. The project proposed by Koolhaas received wide recognition in the architectural community. Thus, The New York Times architectural critic Nikolai Urusov called the House of Music "the most attractive" project of Koolhaas, comparing it with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

15 Olympic Stadium/Olympic Stadium (Montreal, Canada) map

It was built as the main sports arena for the 1976 Summer Olympics. It hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games. Largest stadium in Canada.

16 Nautilus House / Nautilus House (Mexico City, Mexico) map

The design of the house is very innovative, unusual and daring. Architect Javier Senosiain decided to bring nautical forms into architecture and created a house in the shape of a shell.

17 National Library of Belarus/National Library of Belarus (Minsk, Belarus) map

The building is a 73.6 m high rhombicuboctahedron (23 floors) and weighs 115,000 tons (excluding books). Unusual is the illumination of the building, which is a giant multi-color screen based on LED clusters, which turns on daily at sunset and works until midnight. The design and patterns on it are constantly changing.

18 National Performing Arts Center/国家大剧院 (Beijing, China) map

It is an ellipsoidal dome made of glass and titanium, rising in the middle of an artificial reservoir, across the road from Zhongnanhai Lake. The three main halls of the theater can accommodate at least 6,500 spectators.

The architect was the Frenchman Paul Andre; construction lasted from December 2001 to December 2007. The construction of such a huge futuristic building in the historical center of the Chinese capital caused great controversy, both in terms of its inconsistency with the urban environment, and because of the exorbitant and constantly increasing costs during construction.

19 Conch Shell House (Isla Mujeres, Mexico) map

The house was designed by Octavio Ocampo, one of Mexico's most famous artists, and his brother. The house is a perfect display of his surreal blend of summerhouse and unique underwater aesthetic.

20 House Attack (Vienna, Austria) map

Erwin Wurm is known for his unusual, sometimes humorous and sometimes cryptic work. He created just such an intriguing installation, to the surprise of passers-by.

21 Library of Alexandrina/ مكتبة الإسكندرية الجديدة ‎ (Alexandria, Egypt) map

The idea of ​​building a library on the site of the ancient Library of Alexandria arose in the early 1970s and belonged to a group of professors from the University of Alexandria. The complex is characterized by a very expressive architecture. The concept of the library building is based on the symbolism of the south. The building is like a solar disk, raised to the south and tilted to the north. The glass surfaces of the north-sloping roof let northern light down into the library.

22 Cube houses/Kubuswoning (Rotterdam, Netherlands) map

A series of houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond to an innovative design by architect Piet Blom in 1984. Blom's radical decision was that he installed the house's box not on the edge, as usual, but on the top, and with this top he rests (visually) on the hexagonal pylon. In Rotterdam, there are 38 such houses and 2 more super-cubes, and all the houses are articulated into a single structure. From a bird's eye view, the complex has an intricate appearance resembling an impossible triangle.

23 Postman Cheval's Ideal Palace/Le Palais idéal (France) map

The creator of this most impressive monument of naive architecture is Joseph Ferdinand Cheval. From the age of 13 he worked as an assistant baker, in 1867 he received the position of a rural postman. Delivering mail, he made a daily journey of 25 km, putting stones of an unusual natural shape into a wheelbarrow. Of these, for 33 years, alone in his spare time, day and night, in any weather, with the help of the most unpretentious tools, he realized his dream - a palace beyond imagination.

24 Hallgrímskirkja Church (Reykjavik, Iceland) map

The project of the church was developed in 1937 by the architect Gudjoun Samuelson. It took 38 years to build the church. The church is located in the center of Reykjavik, and is visible from any part of the city. It has become one of the main attractions of the city.

25 Eden project (Cornwall, UK) map

Botanical Garden in Cornwall, UK. Includes a greenhouse, consisting of several geodesic domes, under which plants from all over the world are collected. The greenhouse area is 22,000 sq. m. The domes are made of hundreds of hexagons and several pentagons connecting the entire structure. Each of the six- and pentagons is made of durable translucent plastic. Tropical vegetation is represented in the first greenhouse, Mediterranean vegetation is presented in the second one.

26 The Museum of Play (Rochester, USA) map

Interesting architectural solution National Museum games in Rochester. The museum provides a huge interactive collection exhibits dedicated to the history and research of games. A resort complex on the artificial island of Palm Jumeirah in Dubai. The complex consists of two buildings and a bridge connecting them, which housed 1539 rooms. Initially, the dome cells were with acrylic inserts, but after the fire in 1976, only a metal frame remained. Now the Biosphere has become a recognizable symbol of the city. The house is in the neoclassical style, standing upside down. WonderWorks lets you eat well, have a good laugh, lay on a yoga bed, ride a virtual rollercoaster, control a ball with your mind, find yourself in the middle of a desert or inside a soap bubble, and much more. In total, WonderWorks has about one hundred and fifty interactive entertainment. Longaberger's headquarters was built in the form of one of the company's products - a wicker basket. The building has seven floors, huge handles weigh almost 150 tons. Museum, gallery of contemporary art, opened as part of the program " cultural capital Europe" in 2003. The concept of the building was developed by London-based architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier. The informal name is a friendly alien. The building was built in the blob style, which contrasts sharply with the surrounding buildings. The base of the building is made of reinforced concrete, the outer shell is made of bluish plastic panels. The Kunsthaus looks decent despite the very low budget for such cultural buildings in major cities. The interior, according to Colin Fournier, should resemble a magician's black box. The facade is implemented as a programmable media installation. A residential complex in Darmstadt in the form of a spiral, designed by the Austrian architect and artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and characterized by the complete absence of rectangular shapes. Other names are “Wooden skyscraper”, “Solombala skyscraper”. Wooden 13-storey house built in Solombala (northern Arkhangelsk) by businessman Nikolai Sutyagin. The house was partially dismantled in December 2008 by a court decision as an unauthorized building. On May 5, 2012, the remaining part of the wooden skyscraper was destroyed by fire. It was one of the tallest private wooden buildings in Russia, yielding in height to some tiered wooden churches.

Of course, it is most practical to build a house out of brick or foam, but if you want to dream up a little, then here are 10 materials for building a house. In most of them it will not be possible to live, but they can surprise any person with their originality. The most interesting thing is that most of the materials are right at your fingertips right now. Read and create!

House of champagne bottles.

You will not surprise anyone with buildings made of bottles. Very often you can see on TV how another craftsman used bottles to build a house. It was these ideas that inspired the Zaporozhye worker to build a house from champagne bottles. The unusual building now stands proudly in his dacha, still surprising neighbors and guests.

Money house.


Such a house was built by an ordinary artist from Ireland, who lives off unemployment benefits. This would not be so surprising, if not a curious fact. The total amount of banknotes amounted to 1.4 billion euros.


An interesting fact is that the artist did not spend a single cent on the construction. He took as a basis the money that was written off from the bank for unsuitability. The artist simply turned unnecessary banknotes into shavings, and then compressed everything. The result obtained served as the material.
However, the structure cannot be called a full-fledged house. Still, the building was erected inside an abandoned office. Thus, it is more like an apartment than a whole house.

Garden of Cosmic Reflections

Maggie Cheswick inherited the Portrack House estate back in 1989, and she and her husband Charles Jenks decided to create a unique and one of a kind garden on the estate. The estate is located in Scotland and is open to the public one day a year. But in order to achieve such a landscape, Charles used only the highest quality tools to improve the soil and the landscape as a whole: walk-behind tractors from the best manufacturers, lawn mowers and other tools for building houses and estates, and it was the sea-tools store (http://sea-tools. com.ua/catalog/dom_sad_i_ogorod/motokultivatori_i_motobloki/filter/9358-k-kentavr) has in its assortment such a variety of tools that can be ordered online without leaving home.

Straw house.


You can use straw to build a dwelling. An obvious plus is immediately visible here - the material is quite cheap. It is used mainly in agriculture. It is worth adding one more advantage - in such a structure heat is retained for a very long time.
There is no need to be afraid of the wolf that he will blow away your thatched house. In fact, it is able to withstand many external influences. If you treat the straw with special solutions, it will help resist rot and pests. A straw house can last for many years.

House made of bags with earth.

Why not take advantage of the ground we walk on? Free building material. If you fill the bags with earth, you can build a small house yourself. It is very important that the soil is not too dry. It needs to be slightly moisturized. The bags are simply placed in rows and well packed. The bags are secured with barbed wire. It plays the role of a kind of cement. Just look under your feet and you will see great building material.

House made of clay and firewood.

It is very important that all firewood be the same length. This is a rather difficult process, because a lot of firewood will be required. It is best to use split firewood for construction - they will better retain heat indoors.
The building can be of very different heights, lengths and widths. It all depends on the imagination of the builders. You can really live in the house without fear of freezing on a particularly cold night.

House from cargo containers.


Very cheap option for home. Inside the container, you can furnish everything in your own way - you will get a very cozy and comfortable house, in which it will really be good to live. By connecting several containers together, you can get several rooms.

A house made of tires and garbage.

Michael Reynolds is actively fighting the garbage that is constantly thrown right on the streets, under your feet. Having acquired several assistants, the architect was able to build a completely habitable house out of garbage.

Michael filled tires with dirt and used them as blocks. In addition, other garbage was used: cans, boxes and other rubbish. Whether he managed to appeal to the voice of reason of people who litter is not known. However, the house turned out to be complete and original.

Wine cork house.


A pensioner from the Czech Republic built a house out of corks. According to his calculations, it took about 180 thousand traffic jams. Of course, it was hard to collect such a large number of corks on my own, so a local winemaker came to the aid of the enthusiast, who consistently supplied him with corks.

Lego house.

Who said that only children can play with the designer? James May proved the opposite by deciding to build a real house from a children's designer. The approximate number of parts that will be required for the house is, according to the builder's calculations, about 816 million. It is worth noting that for such a number of parts you will have to spend a lot of money. However, it is unlikely that the house can be used for living. Most likely, the house is being built just for fun.

Cardboard house.

Although such houses are rarely seen, however, cardboard is a very durable material that can withstand about 12 tons. If you carefully prepare the material for building a house, then cardboard will be an excellent material.

Hello our dear readers. AT modern cities sometimes there are so many identical houses - entire blocks. And this view is not at all happy. But suddenly, among this grayness, the most unusual houses of the world flash by. Made of wood, brick, stone, one-story and several floors, round, square, and such original shapes that you wonder.

Crooked house in Poland

The house was built according to the fairy tales of Jan Marchin. This is truly a fabulous house. So it seems that now the mouth-entrance will open and say something unusual. And around the day and night the turbulent life boils. Inside the building on the first floor is shopping center. Imagine how briskly trade is going on in it, if a lot of tourists, having taken a selfie, go inside for souvenirs. On the second floor, popular radio stations are constantly broadcasting.

Palace of Ferdinand Cheval in France

Surprisingly, this unusually beautiful building was brought to life by an ordinary postman without an architectural and construction education. The house is built of stones, cement and wire. And in such a mixture of styles, every tourist from East and West will find a piece of their own culture. Ferdinand loved his brainchild so much that he expressed a desire to bury himself in it.

But he was refused (strange, because this is his house) and then he quickly built a crypt next to his palace and in the same style. There the famous postman of France calmed down.

portuguese stone house

It is really a solid, huge stone lying on a mountain. The creation of nature, in which a common person like breathing life. The house was built between two boulders. It has two floors, absolutely suitable for life, but no one has lived here for a long time, because the huge influx of tourists simply does not allow you to relax in this secluded place.

"Planet" for a sheikh in the UAE

An interesting and unusual house was built for Sheikh Hamad. Round shape and painted like Earth. Initially, the house was built for convenience when traveling through the desert of the state - it has 4 floors, several bathrooms and bedrooms. And the building has wheels. Imagine, a lone 12-meter globe is rolling across the vast desert! Not himself, of course, hitched to the tractor. But the sight is unusual.

House of Nikolai Sutyagin in Russia

This wooden 13-storey house was built in Arkhangelsk from boards and timber without nails at all, as the distant ancestors of the Slavs built. From the last floor you could see the White Sea. But, unfortunately, the owner never completed the house. It turns out that private multi-storey residential buildings should not exceed nine floors.

And at the direction of the authorities, the top was demolished, but the house was still not completed. Very sorry! But apparently the building was not destined to "live" even like this, because in 2012 the house burned down completely.

"Flying saucer" in Moscow

Another of the building masterpieces built in Russia is the Moscow registry office, which looks like a plate of aliens. As they say: “Marriages are made in heaven”, so in this registry office lovers are registered “under the clouds”. The wedding palace has two halls: one is on the ground, at the foot of the bridge, and the other is suspended at a height of 100 meters. The upper hall can accommodate about 600 guests. So you can sign on a grand scale and "in heaven."

spherical house

There is no other place like home. Especially when it's built upside down, made from shipping containers, or even built like a sundial! Yes, some dwellings are more unique than others. From domed houses to caves and cliffs, from treehouses to igloos, some people around the world live in the most unconventional homes! You definitely haven't seen this before!

And here are some of the most amazing dwellings:

1. Airplane House No. 1

This house in Abuja, Nigeria is partly built in the shape of an airplane. Its creator was Said Jammal, who brought this great idea to life for his wife Lisa as a tribute to her love of travel.

Another interesting aviation-themed option is a house in Miziar, northern Lebanon, which resembles an Airbus A380.

The village of Miziara prides itself on building houses of strange shapes. Another example is this house, which imitates an ancient Greek temple in form and internal structure.

This impressive house on the outskirts of the city pays homage to the pyramids. The interior is made entirely of Egyptian decor.

Seventy-three-year-old builder Bohumil Lhota built a house in Velka Hamri, Czech Republic, which is able to move up and down, as well as rotate sideways around its axis. It took almost 20 years to create it. The photo shows how Lhota rotates his house in order to get the most colorful view from the window.

The Heliodom is a bio-climatic solar house located near Strasbourg, in the east of France. It is designed as a giant 3D sundial that adjusts to a fixed angle based on the movement of the sun. It is built to provide shade during the summer months, keeping the inside of the house cool. During autumn, winter and spring, the sun shines through large windows, as the position of the sun in the sky is quite low. Therefore, the entire living area warms up well during these seasons.

In this photo, 38-year-old Liu Linghao moves his makeshift home on the road to Liuzhou, China in 2013. Five years earlier, Liu had decided to return to his hometown of Rongan County in Guangxi, Shenzhen, 462 miles away, where he once worked as a migrant. Using bamboo, plastic bags, and sheets, Liu built himself a five-foot-wide, six-and-a-half-foot-tall "portable house," weighing about 60 kilograms, to carry around. With this house, Liu walked more than 19 kilometers a day.

This house was built on a rock on the banks of the Drina River, near the western Serbian town of Bajina Basta. Construction began in 1968 by a group of young people who decided that the rock on the river was perfect place for tiny housing. The owner of the house was also one of those who participated in its construction.

Along with various other treehouses, this cabin in Le Pian Medoc in southwest France is being rented by Natura Cabana for an eco vacation.

These houses in central Spain are made from old giant wine barrels. About 40 people, mostly ethnic Turks from Bulgaria, come to the vineyards to work during the annual six-week harvest and live in this temporary camp. At night they sleep in wine vats, discarded long ago as useless, but found a second life as a night shelter for workers.

This photo shows workers demolishing a private villa surrounded by simulated cliffs on top of a 26-story residential building in Beijing in August 2013. This grand villa, complete with garden, was built illegally on top of a Beijing residential building and took 15 days to demolish.

Green plants gobble up another suspected illegal construction on top of a 19-story residential building in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China. Built 10 years ago, the house covers about 40 square meters. Local law enforcement failed to find the owner of this beauty in 2012.

This three-room home in Sydney, Australia is made up of four shipping containers that can be separated for ease of transport. It appeared on the market in 2005 for only $100,000. The mobile home includes two bathrooms, wooden floors, air conditioning, a kitchen, a laundry room and a balcony.

Not wanting to be left behind by those Chinese who conquered high dwellings, these dubious-looking houses were built on the roof of a factory building in Dongguan, China. The construction was completed five years ago. According to local media, the government said that the size of the house did not match the original submitted design, and therefore such construction should be considered illegal.

Brazilian artists and brothers Thiago and Gabriel Primo built a vertical dwelling on the side of one of the climbing walls in the heart of beautiful Rio de Janeiro.

In this photo, Benito Hernandez stands outside his home in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. For more than 30 years, Hernandez and his family have lived in a strange sun-dried brick house with a huge rock that serves as a roof to this house.

In the photograph, Thierry Atta sweeps the courtyard of his house, built in the shape of a crocodile in the capital of Côte d'Ivoire. Atta was a student of the artist Moussa Kahlo, who designed and began to build this house, which was interrupted by the sudden death of the artist. Two months after this tragedy, Atta succeeded complete the house yourself.

This building, wedged between two long-standing buildings in Warsaw, is an art installation that can be called a home away from home for Israeli writer Edgar Keret. Keret says that he conceived the house, which fits into such a narrow place as a memorial to the family of his parents, who died in the Holocaust.

An eight meter long fiberglass shark model appears to have literally fallen and crashed into this house in Oxford, England. It was erected in honor of the 41st anniversary of the fall of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

In the photo, Hong Kong architect Gary Chang relaxes in a hammock in his huge Hong Kong apartment. After three decades of living in this house, he decided to transform his space into an environmentally friendly and highly efficient one. For this, the architect used sliding walls, which allow the space of the house to be transformed for various daily purposes.

Where do you think such a miracle is located? This amazing house, built upside down, is located in the Siberian city of Russia - Krasnoyarsk. It was built to attract local residents and tourists. It should be noted that all the rooms inside are also decorated upside down.

"Rock" is what it was called by the 15 fundamentalist Mormon families living there. This rock house was founded about 40 years ago on a sandstone formation near national park Canyonlands, which was destroyed in order to build rooms and storage facilities.

In the photo, a model sits in a bathtub inside a house built entirely of ice in support of a German bank in Berlin in 2005. The house was made from about 1000 ice blocks. It is equipped with all interior appliances, furniture and decorations encased in layers of ice or even carved from ice.

These approximately 70 domed houses were built by the American company Domes for Peace specifically for rural residents who lost their homes during the terrible earthquake in ancient city Indonesia - Jakarta.

One married couple decided to quit their jobs and build a cute tiny house. In it, the happy couple set out on their journey to become travel journalists. For five months on the journey, the couple covered 16,000 kilometers and visited 25 states. They estimate their spending at $800 per month for gas, and the fee for public utilities- close to zero.

Home is our own small world, our own universe. A house can say a lot about its owner. And such non-traditional houses often make us think that there are still real dreamers who make their own fairy tale come true!