facts first presents nineteen most unusual houses around the world number one transparent house Japan this house in Japan is very rare the exterior of the home is transparent the walls between the rooms are all transparent and the ceilings are transparent the only room that is not visible from the outside and everywhere in the house is well the bathroom the skateboard house USA this house is located in Malibu California and it is a skaters dream come true every surface inside and outside of the house can be skated on the owner of the house is a former world champion skater Pierre Andres enters irk the house is divided into three spaces the first is the living room dining room and kitchen area the second contains the bedroom in the bathroom the third is a skateboard practice area the ground the walls and the ceiling form a tube that can be skated on the furniture can also be skated on nothing is off-limits in this house number three the world's skinniest house poland the world's skinniest house is also known as curette house and is located in warsaw poland it's built in an alley and it's just 48 inches wide in its widest area in the most narrow area it's just 28 inches the home contains a kitchen dining room a bathroom with a shower and a bedroom with a single bed the house was built with polycarbonate materials which are white to make the home appear more spacious there are stairs that lead up from the ground level and from there you need to use a ladder to get from room to room number four old water tower house belgium the name of this home is chateau du it is a 100 foot Belgian water tower that was converted into a single-family house the house contains a two-car garage two bedrooms a large kitchen and a multi-purpose room there is also a beautiful rooftop terrace with an amazing view of the city the inside of the house is very modern with spiral staircases that lead from floor to floor number five Dick Clark's Flintstone home USA this single-story home in Malibu California was inspired by The Flintstones cartoon its original owner was television legend Dick Clark the inside and the outside of the home looks exactly like it did on the cartoon the home has one bedroom two bathrooms and everything looks like it's made of rock eventually Dick Clark sold the house for one point seven seven eight million dollars this was half of his original asking price rich people must not want to live like The Flintstones number six world's smallest house Germany the architect who designed this house grew up as a refugee in Germany because he was used to having very little he decided to design the world's smallest house the house is just three square feet it has room to sit or lie down it has a roof a lockable door a fold-out desk and a window there's no bathroom no kitchen or any other amenities the house was built in 2012 and it's likely what started the tiny house movement that has been spreading around the US and also on DIY networks number seven the slide house Japan this is one of the most fun and most unusual homes it is a 1762 square-foot home in mega ruku and was designed by the Japanese studio level architects it is a three-story family home that connects all three of the floors with a slide one slide to the home is wrapped with staircases in a corridor the other side is a slide which combined forms a circle around the central area of the home this allows you to climb the stairs going up and take the slide going down the inside of the house is modern and it is a child's paradise a real-life chutes and ladders number eight the Stonehouse Portugal this house is similar to the Flintstones house except the owners didn't intentionally make it look like the cartoon home it's made up of four large boulders which serve as the foundation the ceiling and the walls of the house when it was first built owners used it as a vacation destination later it was turned into a small museum with photographs and relics from the houses past the homes architecture is amazing and brings tourists from all over the world number nine converted Church Holland a man named sec architect n' took two old abandoned churches and converted them into two modern amazing homes much of the interior still resembles the church like the entryways and the crosses embedded into the walls the Creator did make some major changes however the high cathedral ceilings and the original moldings remain number-10 giant seashell house Mexico this house is located in Mexico City the home is shaped like a seashell and it has a giant wall with colored mosaics which give a rainbow effect when you're inside even the inside of the home looks like a seashell this is one of the most amazing homes in all of Mexico unfortunately it is not open to the public number 11 how thin can this is both a home and an island located in Thailand the interior of the building is built into a rock in the middle of the ocean to get there you would need to take a boat there are two separate dwellings and people are transported from one to the other in a ski-lift type vehicle it's one of the most amazing pieces of architecture in the world number 12 the spaceship house this house is described in its name it just looks like a spaceship out of ET or Star Trek the house was built in 1973 and it has changed hands many times over the years the house which is made out of steel and concrete has 2,000 square feet of living space it has three bedrooms two bathrooms and an entertainment room at the bar the house is located in Chattanooga Hennessey if you're planning to pass through you should take a drive-by number 13 the Boeing 727 house this house is one of the most unusual houses in the world and it's located in Benoit Mississippi the home is actually fashioned from an old Boeing 727 the owner Joanne asuri owned a mobile home on a lakefront property after she lost her home in a fire her brother who was a traffic controller suggested that she purchased the plane she paid $2,000 for the old plane $4,000 to have it moved to her property and $25,000 to have it transformed into her dream home the house has 1,300 square feet of living space with three bedrooms two bathrooms a fully equipped kitchen and a living room she also turned the cockpit into a Jacuzzi which overlooks the lake below number 14 the cube houses the cube houses are located in Rotterdam and Helmand in the Netherlands in the Rotterdam homes they are 38 small cubes and two super cubes that are all attached to one another each house contains three floors the ground-floor is the entrance on the first floor are an open kitchen and a living room on the second floor there are two bedrooms and one bathroom on the top floor there is a small garden or patio area the cube ounces and helmand are relatively similar number 15 the bubble house the bubble house was originally owned by the fashion designer Pierre Cardin and is located in the south of France the house is close to 4,000 square feet of living space it has 10 space age rooms 3 swimming pools and an amphitheater that can seat 500 people it also has an amazing view of the Mediterranean the house looks like a bubble on top of a bubble that's been stacked it's one of the most unique homes in the world number 16 one log house the one log house in Garberville California is made of a hollowed-out tree log a man named art smock cut down a two thousand one hundred year old redwood tree after the tree came down it took him eight months to hollow out the log when he finished there was a room that was seven feet high and 32 feet long the house weighs in at about 42 tons today the house is a museum number 17 the steel house the steel house located near Lubbock Texas is a creation of sculptor Robert Bruno the house is made up of 150 tons of steel that rests on narrow legs it has 2200 square feet of living space split up between three floors it took Bruno over 23 years to complete the home number 18 the pickle barrel house the pickle barrel house is a two-story home that looks like two barrels located in grandma raised Michigan the main part of the house is 16 feet tall and has two stories the first floor is a living area and the second floor is the bedroom in the smaller barrel there is a kitchen the two barrels are connected by a pantry number 19 vertiginous Cliff House of all the houses on this list this looks like it would be the scariest to live in it is a prefabricated house that hangs off the side of a cliff in Australia the home has five storeys and it was inspired by the ways that barnacles cling to the hull of a ship the roof of the house is level with the ground therefore there is no door to get inside residents would be lowered into the home through the carport the view is so amazing as you can see the ocean out 3 sides of the home in order to prevent obstructing the view furnishings inside would need to be limited subscribe for more you
