The design of a home obeys multiple factors. Overall cost, material availability, laws, time, local customs... the list is long, but there are many people out there who decide to throw it all away, whether out of necessity, for a treat, or to stimulate their creativity. That leads us to share a gallery with some of the strangest houses in the world. From mini-jungles to airplane replicas, recycled containers, economical domes, and more.

3D-printed houses, the Tiny House movement that builds spaces and polarizes the public, eco-capsules that cost a fortune, nuclear shelters refurbished. When it comes to finding a place to live, humans are a true range of possibilities, as demonstrated by the gallery published by the folks at Design You Trust. Some of these houses are so strange that I honestly don't know how they started building them. Want to see?

The strangest houses in the world

The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
A supposedly illegal construction, covered with plants on a 19-story building. Guangzhou, April 2014.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
A supposedly illegal construction, covered with plants on a 19-story building. Guangzhou, April 2014.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
An airplane-house built in the village of Miziara, in northern Lebanon. May 2015.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
The same airplane-house, from a more distant position.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
A 7.6-meter shark made of fiberglass, nailed to the roof of a house in Oxford, symbolizing the 41 years of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki. October 2013.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
Again in Miziara, but this time it's a pyramid-house, which includes a statue near its entrance.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
In contrast, this house in Miziara seeks to imitate an ancient Greek temple.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
A house built in 1968 on a rock in the Drina River, which forms part of the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. May 2013.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
Raised houses on the roof of a factory in Dongguan, China. September 2013.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
A compact Tumbleweed house, model Cypress 24. These designs are very popular in the Tiny House movement. August 2014.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
Liu Lingchao moves his improvised shelter in the Guangxi autonomous region. It weighs 60 kilograms, and he must walk with it about 20 kilometers a day. May 2013.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
Heliodome, a solar house in Strasbourg. The design regulates shade and light entry, maintaining a balanced temperature inside. August 2011.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
Rockland Ranch, a community built on a rocky wall near Moab, Utah. November 2012.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
A Bulgarian woman looks inside her wine barrel in Socuéllamos, province of Ciudad Real in Spain. They sleep there during the grape harvest season, which lasts about six weeks. October 2007.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
Bohumil Lhota, 73, turning his house in the Czech Republic. Built in 2002, the house can go up, down, and rotate in both directions. August 2012.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
Benito Hernández outside his house in San José de las Piedras, Mexico. Hernández and his family have lived there for over 30 years, using the 40-meter-diameter rock as a roof. January 2013.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
Gary Chang and his 32-square-meter Transformer apartment in Hong Kong. Several YouTube videos show this space in action, look them up! January 2010.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
One of the narrowest constructions in the world is in Warsaw. With 92 centimeters at its thinnest part, it serves as an “artistic installation” for Israeli writer Edgar Keret. October 2012.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
70 domes built under the American program Domes for the World near Yogyakarta in Indonesia. The domes require up to 50 percent less material. May 2007.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
The “vertical house” built by Brazilian artists Thiago and Gabriel Primo in Rio de Janeiro. A climbing wall serves as its base. July 2009.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
A private villa in the middle of demolition, made with imitation rocks on the roof of a 26-story building in Beijing, China. August 2013.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
Two potential buyers examine a house made from four containers in Sydney. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, air conditioning, and it can be disassembled in a day for transport. August 2005.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
A treehouse in Le Pian Medoc, in southwestern France. April 2009.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
Thierry Atta's crocodile-house in Ivory Coast. September 2008.
The Strangest and Most Curious House Designs in the World (Gallery)
Another airplane-shaped house, this time in Nigeria. November 2009.