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7 Dizzying Cliff and Mountain Houses and Dwellings [PICS]

weburbanist.com — Talk about living on the edge ...

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  • universeman, on 07/25/2008, -16/+3Fake.
    • hoodmonkey, on 07/25/2008, -1/+6Real.
    • upick, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4if you're going to make accusations then please back it up with more than 1 word if not you're the automatic idiot who's trying to voice your opinions but lack the verbal vocabulary to actually form a sentence
  • AmyVernon, on 07/25/2008, -0/+10these are awesome. i never made it to cinque terre, but i've seen other villages in italy not too far off from that (area around sorrento, for one)... beautiful.
  • rocktopotomus, on 07/25/2008, -0/+8i am gay for weburbanist
  • notque, on 07/25/2008, -1/+4Damnit sux, now I have that Areosmith song stuck in my head.
  • greenroom628, on 07/25/2008, -1/+1well, you can look on the bright side...at least you'll never get a jehovah's witness or mormons knocking on your door to ask if you've ever heard the word of jebus before. or will you?
  • mnortei, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3anyone else think the third one looks like Iron Man's house?
    • jhaydon, on 07/26/2008, -1/+1I agree. It's on the cliffs in Dover Heights Australia, just down the road from my aunty and uncle's house, and you can see it from their backyard. It was really interesting to see what it looked like inside though.
  • Vodd9, on 07/26/2008, -0/+4Crawling through the website, I found this, which particularily sparkled my interest:http://weburbanist.com/2008/07/06/20-abandoned-cit ...
    More specifically on Kowloon City:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City

    "Although the walled city was described as a hotbed of criminal activities, the daily lives of its dwellers were largely organized by the residents themselves, rather than by the Triad. Most residents were not involved in any crime and lived peacefully within its walls. Many charities and religious groups helped to improve the lives of residents"

    "With the Triads weakened, a sort of synergy blossomed, and the Walled City began to grow almost organically"
    • mecharabbit, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1The ghost towns are all at once spooky and beautiful. Thanks for the link.
  • mysn239, on 07/26/2008, -6/+0Looks like a place where the JOKER would live

    HA HA
  • thegrantman, on 07/26/2008, -0/+0Great houses,easy lawn maintenance,.......a game of flag football wouldn't last too long though.
  • Pusod, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1How do you manage to get water up there? It's not like you can easily dig a well or connect to a municipal water source if the house is built on solid rock! If the water is trucked in, where would you put it? I don't see any water tanks.
  • chadmcc, on 07/26/2008, -0/+0i give who ever lives in those applause... i would not be caught in those...
  • gplpark92, on 07/26/2008, -1/+1third one looks like the Map Room Structure from Halo 1
  • WhoDoneIt, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1Does anyone else get a tingling sensation in their balls when the fear of heights come over you?

    I do.
  • crapmatic, on 07/26/2008, -1/+2I thought I had gone back to 1997 with all those postage stamp 400-pixel photos, but it's a neat collection.
  • mehan, on 07/26/2008, -1/+2What is up with weburbanist always posting ***** low-rez pictures?
  • fireant202, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1reminds me of Howl's Moving Castle. Anyone else?
  • tomarocco, on 07/26/2008, -2/+0Whew! Low-res does make you dizzy!
  • Pifflebunk, on 07/26/2008, -0/+0I am guessing those are built in places where there are not allot of earthquakes.
  • AMSRay, on 07/26/2008, -2/+1Third-grade quality photos and commentary. It's like they cut and paste from a printed encyclopedia.
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