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real estate

What’s a luxury bunker look like?

When mecha-aliens invade, this family can decide to peace out on the world for a while and mosey on down to their still-decent below-ground house.

For Sale By Owner: A secluded hand-built house with a spring-fed pool. Will trade.

My friend Rachel spends a lot of time fantasizing about houses. And stalking houses. She sent me this week’s Offbeat Real Estate dreamboat: an “artistic” house in Idaho, now up for sale or trade. It’s off the grid, a 1/2 mile from the road, and three floors on 12 acres — with the middle floor set up as a tile cutting/stained glass studio, it’s perfect for someone who needs to get away and work for a while.

Imagining yourself in this home takes some work — the owner has a love of using flash and therefore, taking really unappealing photos. It’s okay. I’ll help you fantasize.

Buy a rough and rumble cowboy town on the edge of the wilderness

We’ve had our eye on offbeat real estate porn for a couple months now, but this is the first instance I’ve seen of an entire town getting a listing.

Scenic, South Dakota is on the map west of the Badlands and in a very isolated part of the US. It’s hot in the summers there, cold in the winters, and you’re a long way from anything. But you’d be the proud owner of a very wild-west saloon.

A hand-embellished retro future apartment on the market in New York

A Jules Verne-meets-Tim Burton apartment in NYC just went on the market. Ogle it and you’ll find a new use for submarines in decor.

Learn all about Antoni Gaudi’s fantastical, organic, completely real architecture in a free YouTube vid

Antoni Gaudi is the guy who designed those incredible works of Spanish architecture: the Casa Batlló and Sagrada Familia. Now you can spend over an hour watching a poetic collection of his work — for freeee!

For sale: two bedroom flat in a 130-year old church, complete with arched ceilings

Come in! Enjoy the views of this UK apartment: its green lawn, its cathedral ceilings, its stone window casings. Picture yourself in this special home in the countryside.

House-buying: Inform your gut instinct

Last year my partner and I closed on our very first home. But wait… we only looked at one house during our search. Are we crazy?

Hide the My Little Ponies and other tips: staging and photographing your home for sale

We sold our first house in 2007, just as the mortgage industry was crumbling around our ears. I credit staging and photography with how we were able to sell our house quickly. Here’s what I did.