Your Inner Child Needs this NYC Rooftop Cottage For Sale

Every city dweller dreams of a rooftop abode, penthouse views, or even just some space for a few potted plants and a small grill for the summer if you’re lucky. But this? This takes you back to your childhood, when dreams were made in tree houses and backyard forts. It’s the kind of property that speaks to…

Abercrombie’s Abandoned New York Castle is For Sale

Abercrombie & Fitch– that slightly irritating brand for college kids whose preferred choice of footwear is flip flops all year long. But thanks to this historic house recently hitting the market, I’ve discovered there’s a slightly better story behind Abercrombie & Fitch. David Thomas Abercrombie was a true adventurer. Born to Scottish immigrant parents, he first…

Stop Everything, Check out this Forgotten Library For Sale

You know those movies set in a small town, where a bunch of local kids discover a murder mystery, try to solve it, and end up at the public library, scrolling through newspaper clippings from 50 years ago on the old microfilm machines. That’s how I imagine this library… The old Carnegie Library of Elwood…

10 Fabulous Mad Men Props Auctioned Straight Off the Set

When your favourite series ends, typically the denial kicks in first, followed by several other stages of grief and withdrawal. But I’ve came across something that might be able to help victims suffering from television show withdrawal to deal with their nostalgia. Enter Screenbid, an online auction house, but not just any auction house– Hollywood’s auction house.…

Picasso Drew all Over the Walls of this French Chateau For Sale

I grew up part-time near a town called Uzès in the South of France and on our way into town, we would always pass a mysterious property by the roadside. I remember my mother telling us it used to belong to a famous art collector, and she would even let us stop and sneak up to…

Fixer Upper of the Week: A Ghost Hamlet in Salem

The memories of this place are hiding in the warm breeze and the peeling paint. Happier times are somewhere in the reflection of the glass windows and the creaking door speaks of the stories that have passed through it. At one time in my life, I want to be the person that brings back the…

What to Bid on at the Historic Ritz Paris Auction

When they closed the Ritz Paris for a four year renovation in 2012, my mind often went to that place where I imagine I can walk through walls and suddenly, I’m roaming empty hallways and rooms with the ghosts of the city’s most storied hotel. Sometimes I wandered into the secret Ritz warehouse (yes, such…

For Sale: Spacious Hand-Carved Cave Cathedral

Here’s something you won’t find on Craigslist. Hidden beneath the desert of Northern New Mexico, hand-sculpted from the sandstone cliffs, an etherial cave network built by a single man, is up for sale. Armed with not much more than a pick axe and a wheelbarrow, a sixty seven year-old sculptor and off-the-grid visionary artist, Ra…

Ditch Real Life, Buy a ‘Steve Zissou’ Lighthouse Complete with a Sailor’s Bar

The real estate classifieds are one of my favourite places to linger on the internet these days. You can come across anything from Victorian time capsule homes for sale to a Victorian axe murderess’ mansion up for grabs; big empty Italian castles to private islands complete with Nazi castles– property listings really do provide much…

The 1970s Cold War Era Home Built 26 Feet Underground

You wouldn’t happen to be in the market for a 1970s underground family home, equipped to live in for up to a year without resurfacing in the event of a nuclear missile strike that wipes out humanity, would ya? Because it just so happens one has just come onto the market. And this piece of real estate…