Today’s HouseAHolic on Holiday is pure eye-candy and provided thanks – as usual – to the talented Flickr community. For more information on the images or their photographers, click the links below. Thennet SBA73 FFgoatee FFgoatee SBA73 BelCan75 George*50 Jeri Peier BlueDjinn public oberberg gerag

Welcome to the latest HouseAHolic feature, HouseAHolic on Holidays. This feature is about picking a country each week and exploring some of the homes from there, as posted by the ever-talented users of Flickr. This week, we’re off to Suriname – purely because I hadn’t heard of it until a year or so ago, when [...]

My Mum is a Tasmanian-living Scot (or should that be a Scotland-born Tasmanian?), so the chance of a trip to Nova Scotia in Canada must have seemed a good opportunity to see some familiar sights in a totally new part of the world. She took these pictures along the way.

If you’re going to dedicate your life to solitude, contemplation and general hermit-type behaviour, you may as well do it in a room with a view. Meteora is a Greek site where corroding rocks have left peaks of stronger minerals towering into the sky above verdant valleys below. On top of those peaks, the Greeks [...]

Today I’m hooked on Sweet Juniper’s photos showing urban decay around Detroit. As explained by JDG - the photographer - ”any asshole with a camera can take beautiful photos of Detroit”. This is his explanation of the urban prairies, formerly thriving neighbourhoods, which have been left to sink back into the ground: step one: build a nice [...]

Here’s a weird looking address: This is a Monolithic Cabin and, as they point out on the website ‘it’s not going to win a beauty contest’. Well, no, it isn’t. HOWEVER, it can be used as a cabin, granny flat, study or whatever else you can think of to do with it. I think it looks [...]

Time for another showing from Flickr. These photos capturing rural decay come courtesy of Pastor Rick, who lives in North Dakota, USA. The photos beautifully capture abandoned homes, rusting old cars and farm machinery. I don’t know much about this region or what would cause so many people to abandon their lives on the land, but judging [...]

I discovered Flickr user Metroblossom and his Isolated building series the other day after it was featured on the Flickr blog. I’ve just picked out a few I thought were interesting, taken in Chicago, but if you’re a fan of urban decay and derelict buildings, the rest of the series is well worth a look too.

The Upside Down House was created by Polish businessman and philanthropist Daniel Czapiewski in the tiny village of Szymbark, Poland. I can only imagine how ill and disorientated you would feel after walking through it, particularly with all those other ill and disoriented people also trying to get through there.

Dan and I went to India about a year ago. It was only for two weeks and we spent most of our time in the southern, tea-growing state of Kerala – save for a few hair-raising days in Mumbai and Delhi. We chose India partly because of the food, partly because of the desire to [...]