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Isolated Island house in Norway

This beautiful house is completely cut off from the mainland. Nothing unusual so far, it’s not like there haven’t been any houses built on islands before, but this house practically spreads across the whole island, you go out the door and you find yourself swimming. I wonder how this house close to Oslofjord Islands was built.

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A Strange House from Tokyo

A Strange House from Tokyo

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The underground houses of Coober Pedy

Coober Pedy is a town located in northern South Australia and is known as the opal capital of the world, as nearly 95 percent of the world's opal supply comes from the local mines. This small town with a population of around 3000 has a unique way of life – nearly half of them live underground.

Back in 1916 when people moved into Coober Pedy to mine opal, the harsh summer temperature drove them into caves dug into the hillsides. When temperatures outside raged over 40 degree centigrade, underground temperatures remained comfortable and nearly constant year-round. Even today, the town folk prefer to build their homes in underground caves. In fact, many of these homes are abandoned mine shafts dug to search opal.

Coober Pedy has around 250,000 mine shafts and signs like this are common.






Building a new home in Coober Pedy is much cheaper and quicker compared to conventional building methods. The modern homes aren't the deep caves that people imagine but are dug into the hill sides. The entrance is usually at street level, and the rooms extend towards the back into the hill.


There is a local golf course - mostly played at night with glowing balls, to avoid daytime temperatures. It’s completely free of grass and golfers take a small piece of "turf" around to use for teeing off. The lack of grass hasn’t discouraged them to put up this sign in the golf course though.


Major attractions in Coober Pedy includes this church.




And even underground hotels

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A Camouflaged Cabin in the Woods

From a distance this might look like a pile logs left behind by some lumberjacks. Upon approaching closer you can make out that it’s actually a small cottage.





And the inside looks really cozy too.
 

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Baldwin Street, the steepest street in the world

Located in the city of Dunedin, in southern New Zealand, the Baldwin Street has earned the distinction of being the steepest street in the world. This 350 meters long street begins with a moderate slope and then climbs steeply to reach a maximum slope of 1:2.86 or 19 degrees! The street is so steep that it's surface had to be laid with concrete instead of asphalt otherwise on a warm day the tar would flow down the slope!



A view of the street with the street level






A sign at the bottom of the street

Sources:
Wikipedia, Flickr

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Flintstones Inspired Stone House

his real rock house stand in the mountains of Fafe in Portugal. Inspired by the Flintstones, this odd house was constructed between two giant stones on the hillside of Fafe Mountains. Like most contemporary homes, it has a front door, roof, and selection of windows, while the huge spherical boulder on the uphill side of the house and scoop-shaped end give it a prehistoric feel. Must feel awesome to live there.


 

[via Flickr and Like Cool]

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