An introduction to one-of-a-kind homes and their visionary owners; a historic livery in Birmingham, Ala., is now a hip live-work space for a photographer and her family; a New Orleans shipping container home shows lot size doesn't matter.
A dilapidated Sacramento, Calif., fire station is resurrected; a 150-year old castle overlooks Lowell, Mass.; a Jewish Temple becomes a residence and art studio; an off-beat Chicago museum is transformed into a boutique bed and breakfast.
A Kentucky bourbon distillery's stone walls are the centerpiece of a country home; a Civil War schoolhouse is turned into a residence; a coal company commissary is turned into an abode; shipping containers are converted into a cottage; a grist mill.
An urban oasis crafted from an ink factory; a fire station home in Northern California; a 1930s church that's been expanded into a home; a Houston artist's abode built from a commercial glass warehouse; a 200-year-old stone meeting hall in New York.
A Dutch barn transformed into a Texas dwelling; a candy factory re-purposed as an art gallery and penthouse; a church conversion in Massachusetts; a 1700s corner store turned into a residence; a shipping container home with some unique alterations.
A potato barn, a theater, an oil refinery and more; an Ohio Opera house; a sustainable New Mexico home rises from the desert.
A couple transforms a dairy farm into a dream home; a wagon wheel factory goes from a wedding gift to home sweet home; a couple moves into a power plant.
From a missile silo to a chicken plant and a library to a flower shop.
A horse barn becomes a home; an abandoned train depot; a flour mill gets a brand new function.
Renovating an old Woolworth's with modern comforts; living in what was once a speakeasy; transforming a former fire hall and jail into a home.
From a Tennessee hay barn and a Mississippi gas station to a Northern California shipping container home.
A sugar mill; old boot factory in Dallas, Texas; clock tower; church; fire station loft; corner store; bus; an old schoolhouse.
A home made from tomato cans; an art gallery; grocery store; schoolhouse; water plant; fruit icehouse; convent; double-decker bus; movie house; soda bottling factory.
A 17th-century mission; an old train depot; a fire station.
A firehouse and a charcoal distribution center are converted to homes; former meat market.
A farm and an old tavern conversion.
A barn and an old dance hall are transformed into homes.
A castle and an old hospital turned into homes.
A castle and an old blues hall converted into homes.
Conversions of a chapel and an old mill.
An old tower and a naval coal plant; a former pharmacy.
Waterworks; carriage house; pipe organ factory; train station; convent; charcoal warehouse; hidden tunnel under a brewery ice house home; converted metal shop; flour mill.
A bus and an old pumping station; a hose station, warehouse and hunting lodge.
An old power building and a WWII RAF Control Tower.
An old bakery and carriage house conversion.
Homes made from temples, trucks and even an opera hall.
Homes made from haylofts, airstreams and even a cave.
House conversions; lighthouse; World War II bunker; New Orleans brothel; grist mill.
Home conversions; Catholic schoolhouse; World War II bunker; Seattle tower; gas station; grocery store; barn; firehouse; bus; plane; underground bathroom.
Home conversions; cemetery chapel; sugar mill; doctor's office; railcar; church; barn; firehouse; pump house; historic schoolhouse; converted deli; lighthouse.
Dumpster; horse box; grist mill; dilapidated French barn; lighthouse; rundown theatre in Los Angeles; former five and dime; former grocery store.
Home conversions; schoolhouse; 100-year-old barn; missile silo; submarine; historic mill; oasis of trailers; cave; auto parts warehouse.
Home conversions; winery; tobacco warehouse; castle; cave; shipping container; greenhouse; sheep wagon; historic bank; church; firehouse; barn.
Windmill; furniture warehouse; goat shed; historic dovecote; speakeasy; airstream trailer; washateria; WWII Quonset hut; church; firehouse; barn.
Home conversions; oast house; airplane hangar; grist mill; bank; grocery store; whiskey barrels; charter bus; church; barn; shipping containers; firehouse.
A missile silo; old schoolhouse; corset factory; one-of-a-kind homes.
A tract house in the suburbs; homes from stores or churches; hydro-electric dams; banks.
Unlikely homes include a grain bin, a radio station and a slaughterhouse.
Innovative home design concepts; cheese cooler; clock tower; airplane hangar.
People turn unlikely places into homes.