the strangest houses the strangest in the world, when luxury becomes extravagance

For many the ideal home is synonymous with unbridled luxury and sizes immense, but for many others the dream house must be very characteristic, unique.

Around the world there are so many bizarre houses, fruit of the imagination of the owners and estrus of the architects who have endeavored to achieve their particular desires.

In Ivory Coast, for example, an African artist lives in a house shaped like a crocodile. Built of stone, the house has all the amenities, even if the outside is a giant reptile with a lot of sharp big teeth.

In 2005 in Mexico City was built the Nautilus House, a sinuous and delicate shell is a perfect example of green architecture. A idearla was Javier Senosiain, which used local materials and zero impact, exploiting the particular partially underground structure to limit heat loss and the many stained glass windows to diffuse natural light.

It 'a hotel in Costa Rica, however, the incredible wooden hut built around the fuselage of an old Boeing 727, completely surrounded by greenery and with a beautiful sea view.

But to retrofit an old aircraft is not an idea so preposterous, when compared with that of the UFO-shaped homes. One of these is located in Tennessee and until recently was for sale at $ 119,000, while a fleet of round and colored houses inspired by the spacecraft was designed for Sanzhi Pod City, Taiwan. The construction of houses-UFOs, however, was blocked after only two years and the facilities were ruined before being torn down, 28 years later.

There are also more strange rooms yet, like the house in the boot shape desired by a Allam sir, Pennsylvania. It was a shoe salesman who made his fortune, he is said to have gone by the architect directly with a boot in his hand and he asked if it was able to build a house from the same aspect.

An artist couple in Idaho has realized the Dog Bark Inn, a bed and breakfast in beagle dog shape, built according to the techniques of chainsaw art, carving the wood with a chain saw.

It is worth more than a million dollars the building of two shaped water levels wanted by the former mayor of Suwon, South Korea, erected in 2007 in honor of the annual meeting of the World Toilet Association.

It is estimated that nearly a million and a half dollars, however, the value of the house in the form of Volkswagen Beetle designed by Austrian Markus Voglreiter on the border of a nature reserve near Salzburg. Made of pine wood and concrete, it has an area of ​​900 square meters on three floors of living space, decorated with interior columns decorated with mechanical threads.

In Texas, the splendid panorama of Ransom Canyon, looks very strange house, built almost entirely of steel by the famous architect Robert Bruno, evaluated three million dollars.

Finally, in the top ten of the most extravagant homes of the world you can not help but mention the Bubble Palace, currently owned by the French designer Pierre Cardin, on the market for $ 355 million (the initial price was 456 million).

Inspired by the first dwellings of primitive man inside the rocks, the Bubble Palace was designed by Hungarian architect Antti Lovag and comes up with a futuristic structure and sprawling composed of many domes and cupolas, with circular windows that just seem to bubble.

As long as the Bubble Palace will not be sold, there will stay the modest sum of $ 31,000 per day.