This palace was hand built by postman Ferdinand Cheval. It took him 33 years to build and he calls it Palais ideal. It is a great reminder that a person can do anything with sufficient passion, effort, and time.

All these mansions and palaces used to be luxurious and full of life, but they are now abandoned. Inside this post, you will find homes that once belonged to Saddam Hussein, Moamer Kadhafi and other dictators. Let’s peek into their extravagant lifestyles.

This is Ashton Kutcher’s palace on wheels. It costs $8,750 a week. The luxury vehicle weighs 30 tons, has seven 60” plasma screens distributed among its two stories, and is 53 feet long.

Supposedly, these are leaked photographs of “Putin’s Palace” that is built near Novorossiysk, on the Black Sea. This mansion is almost finished, judging by the pictures. Its construction is worth $1 billion, according to Russian businessman Sergei Kolesnikov who announced this number in his letter to President Dmitry Medvedev. Prime Minister’s press office denies that this building belongs to Putin. Inside this post, you can see outside and inside photos of this beautiful, luxurious and huge mansion built in Russia.

Beautiful caves with giant crystals were found by cavers in Mexico. Two amazing chambers of crystals known as The Cave of Crystals and The Cave of Swords are about 1000 feet down in the limestone host rock of the Naica Mine. This is a real world wonder that reminds of a dreamlike crystal palace.