What lies outside of cookie-cutter neighborhoods and “Suburbia?” ?Where do the retired hippies and rebels live? ?They live in a mushroom house near Rochester, a spinning dome of a home ?in New Paltz, or a Guitar-shaped house in Georgia. ?These homes pay tribute to hobbies, interests, and old TV shows and literature (like Dick Clark’s Flintstone-inspired home or the Hobbit home in Vermont). ?But owning a piece of strange real estate comes at a price– many of the homes are priced at over $500,000. ? With more and more people putting their (strange) interests both inside and outside the walls of their home, one must wonder where these real estate ventures will go next: perhaps to Hogwarts! ?To read about these quirky homes, see this link.