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World's Most Extreme Homes
World's Most Extreme Homes

World's Most Extreme Homes

—It may look weird to an onlooker but it's home, sweet, home to the owners of the most bizarre and unusual dwellings around the world, as host Ruth England finds out when she pays a visit and gets a guided tour by the families who call these unconventional houses home.
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Season 113 of 13 Episodes

  • Swedish cabin; Brazilian soccer ball; Australian glass house.

  • A Swedish home built to organically blend into its surroundings; an executive from Brazil lives in a huge red ball atop a pole; an architect creates a funky twist on the tree house.

  • A Dutch family and their pet duck live aboard a converted barge.

  • A British cottage is placed atop a 70-foot tower; an Australian family burrows underground; a luxurious hilltop haven.

  • Historic Rainthorpe, an English country home; Brazilian treehouse; New Zealander's junk decor.

  • A family of French circus performers lives in a wooden dome home that rotates 360 degrees with a slight push.

  • South African lodge; simple Chilean modular home; New Zealand conservatory home.

  • A family builds a modern home around a 19th century water tower; three water tanks become a family home; a home rotates 360 degrees with the touch of a button.

  • A lighthouse becomes a six-bedroom home; an underground home in Mexico; an eight-foot-wide house.

  • A couple reside in a functioning 1839 lighthouse; actress Luciana Paluzzi lives in a Mexican home on the Costa Careyes; a house made of mud bricks.

  • Ruth visits a New Zealand home clinging to the rock like a scallop shell and more.

  • A house built in a man-made crater; South African game lodge; Kasteel Amstenrade.

  • A 26-room fairy tale castle; Chilean beach house; unique New Zealand home.
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It may look weird to an onlooker but it's home, sweet, home to the owners of the most bizarre and unusual dwellings around the world, as host Ruth England finds out when she pays a visit and gets a guided tour by the families who call these unconventional houses home.

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Ruth England, Victoria Hollingsworth

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