These are some pictures of the most unusual houses in the world and some are even real. The others are the work of someone using Adobe Photoshop. Can you tell which ones are real?

The one to the right is pretty ingenious. Half carved out of granite and the rest is that impressive rotunda. How else to use space that gravity says you don’t have? At least no one can block your view.

I’m sure there are some people out there debating how they can get that ocean view on their tiny lot, so maybe this will give them some ideas. A treehouse doesn’t have to just be for children . . . and you get to use a rope ladder.

So what if your house is between two unmovable objects, just build between them! So you can make the preservationists happy and just look at that ocean view! Although if this were in the Bay Area, the roof would probably be peeking over the monoliths or even using them as columns for its third story.

If the lot is really small, there are always possibilities, as this place illustrates. Say what you will about it not being seismically sound, but I bet it has a great view!

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