The most unusual houses in the world

At all times, a person attached great importance to his home - a place with which the whole future life of his family will be connected. Therefore, it is not surprising that they approach the process of building a house with all seriousness, not limiting themselves in fantasies and, without exaggeration, putting a piece of their soul into their home.

Nowadays, you can see houses that can amaze the imagination with the complexity or, conversely, with the simplicity of their design. We offer you a selection of the most unusual buildings in the world, each of which, of course, has absorbed a part of the personality of its owner.

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1. The house-plane, which you can see in this photo, is located in the village of Miziara, Northern Lebanon. Miziara is known for its extraordinary houses, and seeing buildings there that resemble ancient Greek temples or Egyptian ruins will by no means be a curiosity. (Photo: Aziz Taher/Reuters)

2. On the roof of this house located in Oxford, you can see a statue of a shark. The sculpture, made of fiberglass and reaching a length of 7.6 meters, was installed in memory of the 41st anniversary of the drop of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. (Photo: Eddie Keogh/Reuters)

3. House-pyramid in the village of Miziara, in northern Lebanon. (Photo: Aziz Taher/Reuters)

4. A house that looks like an ancient Greek temple is under construction. Baalbek, Lebanon. (Photo: Aziz Taher/Reuters)

5. On the roof of this 19-story building located in Guangzhou, a gazebo surrounded by green trees was illegally erected. (Photo: Reuters/China Daily)

6. This house is built on a rock near the Drina River, near the western town of Bajina Basta in Serbia. The house was built in 1968 by a group of young people who decided that a rock near the river was the perfect place for a tiny shelter. So says the co-owner, one of the company that built the house. (Photo: Marko Djurica/Reuters)

7. Houses on the roof of a factory building in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China. (Photo: Reuters/China Daily)

8. A small tumbleweed house driving down a highway near Colorado. The construction of tiny houses originated a few years ago thanks to lovers of the simple life. The area of these small houses ranges from 93 to 9.3 square meters, but, nevertheless, they can hardly be called shacks. (Photo: Rick Wilking/Reuters)

9. 38-year-old Liu Lingchao carries his house in the Chinese town of Shapu. Five years ago, Liu decided to walk back to his hometown of Rongan County from Shenzhen Province, where he had previously worked. From materials at hand - bamboo, plastic bags and sheets - Lew made himself a "portable room" 1.5 meters wide and two meters high. The room weighs about 60 kg, and Liu constantly wears it on himself, walking about 20 km a day. On the day this photo was published, Lew was 20 km away from his hometown. (Photo: Reuters/Stringer)

10. The heliodome, a bioclimatic solar house, was built in Coswiller near Strasbourg (East France) in 2011. The house is a huge three-dimensional sundial. It is set at a certain angle with respect to the movement of the sun, so in the hot summer months the house is always shaded and cool, and in autumn, winter and spring the sun is lower in the sky and shines directly through the large windows, warming the house inside. (Photo: Vincent Kessler/Reuters)

11. This photo shows girls jumping on a trampoline near a house built right into the rock. The unusual house is located in the Rockland Farmers' Cooperative in Utah. "The Rock", according to the memoirs of 15 families living in it, was built about 35 years ago in sandstone deposits near Canyonlands National Park. (Photo: Jim Urquhart/Reuters)

12. In this photo, you can see a Bulgarian woman peeking into her house, furnished right in a wine barrel. In central Spain there is a camp of such unusual houses, 40 of whose inhabitants are ethnic Turks who came from Bulgaria to pick grapes during the six-week annual harvest. They sleep in overturned wine barrels about the size of a car. The makeshift camp is located in Castile-La Mancha near the agricultural society of Soquellamos. (Photo: Andrea Comas / Reuters)

13. Bohumil Lhota, a 73-year-old builder, built his house near the town of Jablonec nad Nisou, a hundred kilometers northeast of Prague. Lhota came up with the idea to create a unique house, and in 1981 he began construction. The man wanted to build a dwelling closer to nature and the earth, in order to be able to take advantage of the cool temperature of the dungeon. Construction was completed in 2002, the house can move up and down and turn in different directions, which allows you to change the view from the window. (Photo: Petr Josek / Reuters)

14. This house is located near San Jose del Pedros in the northern state of Mexico, Coahuila. For more than 30 years, Benito Hernandez and his family have lived in a strange house made of adobe bricks, dried in the sun, and a rock with a diameter of 40 meters serves as a roof. The property is located near the city of San Jose del Pedros in the arid desert of Coahuila, about 80 kilometers from the Texas border. (Photo: Daniel Becerril/Reuters)

15. Architect Harry Chang rests in a hammock in his apartment, which is located in Hong Kong and occupies 32 square meters. Chang grew up in the same small apartment and has now come up with an innovative solution for the increasingly cramped conditions of the city dwellers. This is a "transforming apartment", just like in science fiction films. (Photo: Bobby Yip/Reuters)

16. This is one of the narrowest houses in the world. It was built as an art installation between two buildings in Warsaw. The width of the building is only 92 centimeters, it was built for the Israeli writer Etgar Keret. Keret told the TV channel TVN24 that he would live there, coming to Warsaw twice a year. The writer conceived this project as a kind of memorial to the families of his parents who died due to the Holocaust during World War II. (Photo: Kacper Pempel/Reuters)

17. These 70 domed buildings were built by an American organization in the village of Samberhardjo near Jakarta for residents left homeless due to the earthquake that occurred on May 8, 2007. (Photo: Dwi Oblo/Reuters)

18. In this picture, Brazilian artists Thiago Primo and his brother Gabriel hang on the wall of a house in Rio de Janeiro. A whimsical vertical "house on the wall", designed by artists, attracts the attention of thousands of passers-by in the center of Rio. (Photo: Bruno Domingos/Reuters)

19. Workers demolish a private villa surrounded by artificial stones, which was located on the roof of a 26-storey residential building located in Beijing. (Photo: Reuters/Stringer)

20. This photo shows a tree house in Le Pian Medoc in southwestern France. France's Natura Cabana rents various small structures, places them in trees and rents them out for eco vacations. (Photo: Regis Duvignau/Reuters)

21. This is the house of Thierry Atta in the shape of a crocodile in the capital of Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan. Atta was a student of the artist Moussa Kahlo, who designed and built the house. The artist himself died two months ago. (Photo: Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters)

22. House, partly built in the shape of an airplane, in Abuja, Nigeria. (Photo: Goran Tomasevic / Reuters)