Offbeat America

Creative homes include a very colorful Victorian house, a modernist glass house with a panoramic view, a caboose-inspired small home, and a nostalgic ranch packed with a nifty collection.

Creative homeowners share the inspiration behind an eco-friendly community in Arizona, a high-end Miami home built like a ship, a leaning house/studio in Connecticut and an artistic collection of everything in San Francisco.

Unusual homes include a textile mill converted into an artist's funhouse, a welder's sculpture garden and skate park, a house stuck in the roaring 1920s, a campy modern New York home, a backyard frontier town and more.

Cool homes include a house with underwater tunnels, a magician with his own stage, a house filled with paper mache statues, a remote artist's home in the desert that's self sufficient and art collectors with a 123 tiki room.

Unusual homes include a Hawaiian island house in the Midwest, a part-dome part-medieval home in Oregon with an impressive patio Mona, an unfinished style in an architect's finished home and a cowgirl's fan paradise in Ohio.

Eccentric homes include a whimsical house on the wild side, a pirate's cove in landlocked Ohio, a carved leather paradise in Colorado, an eco-friendly teeny home with a fairy tale vibe and a colorful stained glass sawmill.

Unusual homes include a houseboat made from a former plane, an enchanting Greek-inspired sculpture garden in California, a place to phone home from Indiana and a log cabin with textured aluminum features.

Unusual homes include a Medieval castle with a tricked-out garage, 1960s "leisure land" with a swim-in movie theater, a couple with their very own little Italy and two brothers with eco-friendly Moroccan-themed houses.

Unusual homes include a sleek circular house in Portland, a Texas hacienda with underground vaulted tunnels and a spring-fed grotto, a suburban home with elaborate handmade glass chandeliers and a rooftop country house in NYC.

Creative homes include a Tennessee mountaintop home that's still living in the 19th century, a Hawaiian round house with an aerial dance centerpiece, Easter Island on the Hudson and a different kind of dot boom in California.

Creative homes include a '50s flashback filling station, an Alabama storybook castle, a passenger jet turned home, a steel home with curve appeal in the Blue Ridge mountains and an elaborate backyard turtle retreat in California.

Funky homes include a backyard fairway with an old time train station, an art-filled former office building, a loft constructed entirely of found objects, a whimsical garden wonderland and a farm amusement park.

Outrageous homes include a music lover's Egyptian blues warehouse, a vacation home with the sailboats docked inside, a mosaic-filled home with no straight lines, a house bejeweled in keepsakes and an underground stone cave home.