Listed for $5.35 million, this 7000 square foot home has 8 bedrooms and 2 reception rooms. However, the most interesting feature of the house is the spaceship play room located in the attic that has “mission control” seats, a chest full of space suits and walls covered in lights and cable.

Poteet Architects, a Texas based architecture firm is responsible for this great idea for turning unused shipping containers into self-contained guest houses.

Line Raineville is a lady with a passion for Star Trek, make that an obsession. She recently decided to spend over $30 000 converting her house into a life size version of the Starship Enterprise.

Macy Miller lost her home in a foreclosure following her divorce and decided that she was done with mortgages for good. An architect by trade, she spent two years building a 196 square foot house that is perfectly quaint and homely.

The Morrison shelter was created by John Baker and named after the Minister of Home Security, Herbert Morrison. The shelters came in home assembly kits and were 6 ft 6 in (2 m) long, 4 ft (1.2 m) wide and 2 ft 6 in (0.75 m) high and had a solid 1/8 in (3 mm) steel plate “table” top with wire mesh sides and a metal floor. 500,000 shelters were distributed by the end of 1941 and were given free to households with a combined income of less than $640(£400) per year in preparation for the expected German V-1 “Doodlebug” bomb attacks.

Help Fireboy and Watergirl find the way home!

This property comes complete with pirate ship, artificial beach and UFO.

Jonathan Ive, Apple’s vice president of industrial design credited for the looks of the iPod, iPhone and other company’s products has bought an awesome mansion in San Francisco. Ive bought the place for $17 million.

Belgian design studio Bham turned this decommissioned water tower that soars about 30 m (98 ft.) above the flat countryside near Brussels into a living house. Now the building with a total area of 400 sq. m (4300 sq. ft.) is a six-level two-bedroom private residence with modern furniture, sleek kitchen, and garage for two cars.

A guy constructed a server/gaming room at home. It has a data rack with routers for a house’s network, media server that streams HD movies to the TVs around the building, house alarm panel and security cameras controlling unit and an array of HDDs for file storage. The room has electric blinds and the automated lighting system with several presets.

Mother chimpanzee abandoned her baby in a zoo, so one of the employees took the little animal home. Surprisingly, the employee’s mastiff started to treat the orphaned chimp as her own child.

These incredible houses and rooms are ideal for bachelors, but just about anyone would love to call them home.