17 Magical Houses Taken Straight From A Fairy Tale

It’s often said that home is where the heart is, but I’m sure that most of us would easily fall in love with these fairytale cottages and leave our old homes behind in a heartbeat.

What goes in to making a fairytale cottage? First of all, it’s clear that you need a rural setting, preferably a forest with witches and wolves or fairies and elves hiding behind every tree and rock.

Then there’s the cottage itself. Some of these are based on historical styles while others feature fantastic designs found only in their creators’ imaginations. However, even the ones with realistic architectural elements still stand with one foot in reality and the other in a fairy tale.

Arguably the most interesting cottages among these, however, are the ones that are most committed to the realm of fantasy. Wild and strange curves, ornate forms, curling roofs and little stone pathways are what truly make a cottage look like it was torn from the pages of a fairy tale!

Hobbit House In Wales, UK

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Fairy Tale Cottage in Canada

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Three Story Treehouse in British Columbia, Canada

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Nautilus House in Mexico





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Hobbit House in New Zealand

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The Seashell House in Mexico









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Rustic Way Whimsical House in Minnesota



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Dome Home in Thailand



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Stone House in Portugal

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Akebono Kodomo-no-mori Park in Japan

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Forest House in Netherlands

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Abandoned Wooden House in Russia

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Tiny Victorian Cottage in the Catskills, New York




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Crazy House in Vietnam

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Traditional House in Iceland

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Maison de Sorcière Avec Ciel d’orage in France

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Tea House Tetsu in Yamanashi, Japan

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Deepest Sea Hole In The Wolrd

If you ever come by near the coast of Belize, you should't miss an opportunity to visit the Great Blue Hole, one of the world’s most recognizable natural wonders. The Great Blue Hole is located in Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, about 60 miles away from Belize City. It is believed that this hole is the world’s largest sea-hole. It is about 125 meters deep and its diameter is about 300 meters wide. It has been created as a cause of sea level increase about 65,000 years ago.

Its almost perfect circular shape made it very popular among tourists who often visit this place. This place is most attractive for scuba divers who are exploring the depths of this hole. It is known that there are a plenty of cave networks in this place. Divers are also attracted with plenty of rare animal species and forms of life which can be found only in this place.

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The Real Life Shrek

As some might know- a lot of Cartoon characters are based on real-life people. However when such a bizarre character as Shrek is actually based on a real person- then we can not let that pass without writing about it!

Maurice Tillet was a French pro wrestler born in 1903. As a child he had a completely normal appearance and Tillet was nicknamed “The Angel” due to his angelic face. He was highly intelligent, allegedly speaking 14 languages and being quite gifted in prose and Chess. He finished law school but always aspired to be an actor. However, in his twenties Maurice developed acromegaly, a condition that made his bones grow uncontrollably large (the same disease that Andre the Giant suffered). It caused him to quit his career as a lawyer as he felt people would not accept his appearance in the courtroom. Now you must think- that must have put him down? Think again! He actually headed the exact opposite of down, by going to the United States and taking advantage of his condition.

He transformed himself into a pro wrestler called the “French Angel”. He soon became so popular that he was booked unstoppable, going undefeated for a span of 19 months. Tillet was arguably the biggest wrestling star during the early 1940′s. He was very famous in his time and not just among wrestling fans. He was the subject of numerous magazine features, and he always made the newspapers, often the front page, when he came into a town for a match. Due to this bizarre occurence of events he was also allowed to fulfill his biggest wish… to become a famous actor and starring in a number of succesful movies. In 1953 Mauric Tillet died, not from Acromegaly but from a heart disease. Just shortly before Maurice Tillet passed away Chicago sculptor Louis Linck befriended Tillet and made a series of plaster busts commemorating him for his wrestling career. One of the busts is in the Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science.

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Couple almost gets Struck by Lightning while Taking Selfie

A video uploaded on YouTube on July 24 about young couple who have captured the moment they were nearly struck by lightning while taking a romantic selfie on holiday in Mexico, is now viral with over 8,723,806 and still counting views. Luis Morales Fukutake and his girlfriend were swimming during a storm near Cancun and decided to take a selfie, when a lightning bolt hit the ground just a few metres behind the pair.


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One Tree Grows 40 Types of Fruit

Sam Van Aken created a tree that "grows over forty different types of stone fruit including peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries, and almonds."

Even the most beautiful trees tend to bloom in only a single color, but artist Sam Van Aken is growing trees that turn into a kaleidoscopic array of flowers come spring. A project of his, the "Tree of 40 Fruit," has Van Aken grafting 40 different stone fruit branches onto a single tree, ultimately creating a tree that will slowly begin blooming at the beginning of spring and continue through the season as different varieties hit their marks. Come summer, those will all begin to grow fruits, including different types of cherries, peaches, plums, nectarines, and apricots.

Van Aken, who tells Epicurious that he grew up on a farm, uses a technique called grafting to combine the similar fruit types onto a single tree. His use of the technique is certainly on the uncommon side, though similarly expansive efforts have been done before — The Daily Mail reports that a man in England put 250 varieties of apples on a single tree. Van Aken's trees are certainly designed more for the art of their blooming, but there's a preservation element that he's bringing in to it too. Van Aken says that he tries to include local fruits on each of his trees, as well as varieties that aren't commercially available.

None of the trees appear to be quite as grand in scope yet as Van Aken's gorgeous rendering (above) imagines them to be. For now, they're still young and small, but photos on Van Aken's "Tree of 40 Fruit" website show that they're already beginning to display what makes them so unique. The trees are currently spread across the US, with the majority of them around New York and New England. Epicurious reports that there are 16 of them so far, located in museums, community centers, and some private collections.

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The Seven Weirdest Creatures Under the Sea

If you're looking for a good fright, forget about going to see a horror movie, or wandering through a cemetery in the middle of the night. Just flip on the National Geographic channel and find yourself a good documentary about the horrors lurking under the sea.

Living thousands of feet below the water's surface may not have done these creatures any favors in the looks department, but it has led to some utterly bizarre adaptations that let mother nature's ugly step-children survive in their unique environment. And while it's fun to point and stare at how hideous they all are, just remember they'd probably do the same to us if they visited dry land.

Deepstaria enigmatica

Not only may you never want to sleep again after seeing this undulating sheet of brown goo writhing its way across your screen, you'll never want to use blankets again either. We'll take a hungry great white shark over this creature any day—at least we know which end is up there.

Psychedelic Fish

It gets its name from its tie-dye-like skin, but the Psychedelic fish is also known as the Frog fish because of the way it uses its lower fins to hop and crawl along the ocean floor. And for some reason its back fin is perpetually twisted to the side making it difficult for the fish to swim straight ahead. Is this mother nature's version of a Nascar driver?

Pacific Barreleye Fish

More formally known as the Macropinna Microstoma, the Barreleye Fish's eyes are protected beneath a clear soft dome that lets it keep an eye on prey floating above and all around it. It's also got kind of a cool fighter pilot thing going on.

Predatory Tunicate

Growing out of the ocean floor like water-filled plants, Tunicates are usually passive feeders. But this predatory version lures in other sea life through its large gaping mouth, trapping and digesting them for dinner. Didn't we see its bigger brother show up in one of those Star Warsfilms?

Prehistoric Frilled Shark

Frills are supposed to be a cute addition to a little girl's outfit. So why are prehistoric creatures like the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park, and this rare Frilled Shark, making them part of our nightmares? This bizarre-looking shark somehow manages to make even Jaws seem adorable.

Pistol Shrimp

This little guy actually looks like your run-of-the-mill shrimp, but it's what it does with its pincers that's utterly bizarre. It's called the Pistol Shrimp because it's able to cock and slam its pincers shut with so much force that it produces a super-heated blast of water that stuns its prey. Easily making this the world's most deadliest beatnik.

Vampyroteuthis Infernalis 

(aka The Vampire Squid From Hell)

Being compared to a vampire straight from the gates of hell can't be great for its self-esteem. But this unusual creature—that falls somewhere between an octopus and a squid—lives up to its name with barbed tentacles, glowing eyes, squirting phosphorescent ink, and the ability to turn itself inside-out into a spiky ball of horror.

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