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Each one of these incredible homes has a unique design by each of it's homeowners like the crooked house and even a shoe house!! Subscribe to Talltanic http://goo.gl/wgfvrr 10. The House of Stone Many people felt that this house was a fake when pictures first appeared on the internet. Far from it, this very real house is located in northern Portugal and became quite a popular tourist spot when people realized that it actually existed. Situated between four large boulders this dwelling was built in 1974 as a vacation home but is used as a small museum today. Increased interest and tourism to the House of Stone forced the owner to find another place to use as a vacation home. 9. Slide House Clearly this home was designed with children in mind. On one side of the three story home is a normal staircase, but on the other is a slide that you can use to go all the way down the home if you so desire. There is also an enclosed ball pit in the center of the living space, which is located on the second floor. It is no surprise that the home was designed for a couple with three children, who are surely three of the luckiest kids around. 8. The Toilet House Mayor of Suwon, South Korea Sim Jae Duck designed this loo shaped two story home to mark the inaugural meeting of the World Toilet Association in 2007. The 4,520 foot structure is made of steel and concrete and cost a reported $1.1 million to build. There is a staircase that leads up and through the toilet drain of the house and onto a roof-top balcony. The home even includes a glass walled bathroom at its center whose walls turn opaque at the touch of a button. 7. Sliding House While the home itself doesn’t actually slide, its steel and wooden shell does. Made to change along with the weather, this house was designed by DRMM architects and took about a year to complete. Found in east Suffolk, England the shell sits on top of recessed tracks and is powered by four electric motors. It takes six minutes for the shell to open and it does so extremely smoothly and quietly. 6. Pod Homes An earthquake in 2006 destroyed a small Indonesian village displacing the entire population. Luckily the U.S. based company Domes for the World came to the rescue and built 80 pod homes for the victims of the disaster. The domes provided new homes for 71 families, clean water, a school and a medical clinic. It took 370 local laborers less than six months to complete construction of the pods. 5. Tilted House Located on Ganghwa Island in South Korea, this house leans in at a 50 degree angle, creating a structure that appears to be hugging itself. It is currently being used as a cafe and almost everything on the inside is surprisingly upright. The bathroom is the one exception as it is as slanted as the exterior of the building, making a normally mundane trip to the powder room quite memorable. 4. Upside Down House You can find this bizarre home right next to the cafe on Ganghwa Island. Both homes were designed by former clothing designer Jeon Yong-sun who found that there isn’t much difference between designing clothes and designing houses. The fact that he said this leads one to wonder what his clothes looked like. 3. The Keret House Remarkably this house is only 72 centimeters at its narrowest point and just 152 centimeters at its widest point making it the world’s skinniest house. It lies between two building in Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. The structure is semi-transparent and has no windows, though apparently the interior is not as claustrophobia inducing as one might think. It serves as a temporary home for traveling writers. 2. The Hobbit House Remarkably this home was constructed in a mere 4 months and cost only $5,200 to build. Simon Dale, who has no experience in architecture, created the house using scrap wood and materials scavenged from skips and diverted water from a nearby spring. The sustainable house is heated by a wood burner and powered by a solar panel. Situated on a hillside in Wales Dale’s wife and two children camped on the hill while waiting for Dale to finish their new home. 1. Dumpster House The dean of a college in Austin, Texas recently came up with this dwelling as part of an ongoing sustainability-focused experiment called The Dumpster Project. Professor Jeff Wilson also known as Professor Dumpster around town started living in the dumpster with little more than cardboard mats which he slept on and a tarp to keep the rain out. He has since added a sliding roof, an air conditioner and a false floor among other amenities, making the tiny home not only livable, but even a bit cozy.