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When God told Horace Burgess to build a treehouse, he promised that Burgess would never run out of materials as of yet he still has not.  Using recycled wood his structure is over 100 feet tall, with the foundation being a 80 foot tall white oak tree. It is known as Ministers Treehouse, and people come from all over to visit.

Horace he estimates the treehouse to be between 8,000 to 10,000 square feet. with 10 floors.  Burgess, is a landscape architect and an ordained minister, has has put around $12,000 of his own money into it, part of which were for the 258,000 nails he has used. License plates, furniture, roofing material, and plexiglass skylights have been used in the construction.

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If your building a new house, or just want to remodel your current one, here are some ideas on how to construct your garage. All you need is a pile of money and the possibilities are endless. Pics after the jump.

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Without looking at the second picture, you would never guess this is merely a painting on a wall. Absolutely incredible. Not sure who the artist is, but they are extremely talented.

There are all kinds of houses made of bottles. And while it’s great they are being green, let’s face it, they don’t always look the greatest. What makes the house below stand apart, is the fact that it’s probably the most impressive looking bottle house I’ve ever seen. They did an amazing job.

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Ever seen an elevator that looked like this? The AquaDom in Berlin, Germany, is a 25 meter tall cylindrical acrylic glass aquarium with built-in transparent elevator, which takes visitors to a siteseeing deck. It is located at the Radisson SAS Hotel in Berlin-Mitte. The DomAquarée complex also contains a hotel, offices, a restaurant, and the aquarium Sea Life Center.

Opened in December of 2003, it cost about 16 million dollars to build. It contains 237,754 gallons of seawater and has 2600 fish made up of 56 species. Two divers are on on site full time for feeding and maintenance of the fish.

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At over 1,000 yards long, covering 20 acres, and holding 66 million gallons of water is the worlds largest pool at the resort San Alfonso del Mar in Chile. It uses water pumped from the Pacific Ocean which is filtered then treated to supply the pool. The pool took over 5 years and a reported 1 billion to build.

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