Photos: Germany’s upside-down house
I once went to a party in college where the hosts had hung their furniture upside-down from the ceiling. But this takes the cake: Sean Gallup/Getty Images The house, in the town of Trassenheide on Germany’s Baltic Sea island of Usedom, is appropriately named “The World Stands on its Head.” It opens today as a ...
I once went to a party in college where the hosts had hung their furniture upside-down from the ceiling. But this takes the cake:
I once went to a party in college where the hosts had hung their furniture upside-down from the ceiling. But this takes the cake:
The house, in the town of Trassenheide on Germany’s Baltic Sea island of Usedom, is appropriately named “The World Stands on its Head.” It opens today as a tourist attraction.
Here’s what it looks like inside:
The only thing that’s right-side up? The stairs.
Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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