Extreme Homes

Dwellings include a glass box in Switzerland, an outlaw cave in the Arkansas wild and a pyramid in rural Ohio.

Featured: an English home built beneath a wildflower meadow; an Australian abode perched atop a 1000-foot cliff; and a home constructed out of old shipping containers in Chile. Also: ruins in Portugal; a PVC bubble in France; a California residence perfect for performing arts; an ode to black and white in Hollywood; a Brazilian fig-tree house; and a glass farmhouse in Oregon.

Featured: a guarded mansion in South Africa; a home that resembles a flashlight in Portugal; a Dutch abode made out of glass triangles; a London apartment with a hole cut in the center of it; and a Japanese residence made partly from tires.

This amazing assortment of homes from all over the world includes a South African residence complete with two human-size nests, a Californian home that blends into the landscape and a Japanese home that is left open to the street because it has no doors. There's a dwelling no bigger than a shed in Oregon, a Brazilian residence that also houses thousands of books, a tree house made from recycled materials in Texas and an Australian home inspired by a mythical creature called a gryphon. Country living and cutting edge design collide in France and a Mexican house zigzags down a hillside while a once-ruined English hunting lodge is perfect for parties and a residence in California features a human aquarium.

Castle, Factory, Cliffside

Greenhouse, Nest, Secret Agent