Driving through the Wapiti Valley on the road between Cody and Yellowstone, travelers can’t help but slow down when the silhouette of the Smith Mansion appears against the ridgeline. Rising five stories tall, its spindly balconies and staircases jut out at odd angles, like something from a fairytale or a dream—both beautiful and haunting. Locals call it the “Crazy House” or the “Pagoda House,” but its real name comes from the man who poured his life into it: Francis Lee Smith

Perched high in the wooded ridges near Hedgesville, West Virginia, stands a house that looks less like a traditional Appalachian dwelling and more like a dream pulled from the forest itself. Known simply as the Mountain Modern Glass and Copper Home, it is a structure that blurs the line between architecture and landscape, a contemporary retreat designed to both stand out and disappear among the trees. The home was created by visionary architect Travis Price, whose designs oft

In the heart of Dunedin, Florida—where sea breeze mingles with sidewalk chalk and color always seems to find a home—there’s a house that doesn’t just sit on its lot. It radiates  from it. From the street, the Mosaic House of Dunedin looks like something dreamt, not drawn. Tiles shimmer across every surface. Sculptures bloom from corners. Colors curve and dance across walls like music frozen mid-note. It’s not a home in the traditional sense. It’s a living, evolving work of ar

Nestled along a quiet bend of the Mississippi River in the Delta lowlands of Chicot County, Arkansas, the Lakeport Plantation rises from the flat earth like a memory that refuses to fade. Built around 1859 by Lycurgus Johnson, a wealthy planter whose empire stretched over 4,000 acres and was worked by 155 enslaved men, women, and children, Lakeport was more than a home—it was a declaration of power. The house itself was a masterpiece of Greek Revival architecture, elegant and

On a ridge above downtown Juneau, where mountains rise behind and the Gastineau Channel gleams below, stands a house that has quietly watched more than a century of Alaskan history unfold. Perched at 213 Seventh Street, the House of Wickersham was built in 1898–99, the first grand home on the hillside once known as Chicken Ridge . Back then, Juneau was still a gold rush town, and mining executive Frank Hammond wanted a residence that showed both stability and success. The res

Not far from the foothills of Phoenix, tucked beside the Adelman property and shaded by desert brush, sits a home with a quiet kind of elegance. The Jorgine Boomer Cottage doesn’t demand attention—but it rewards it. Built as what Frank Lloyd Wright called a “mountain cottage,” it stands not as a monument, but as a moment—a pause in the desert that still holds a whisper of the past. Legend has it that the Boomers and Adelmans met at the nearby Biltmore Hotel, drawn together by