House Facts

Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

In 2013, a man bought a house next to his ex-wife just to install a giant middle finger statue for her to see every day.

The widow of Winchester rifle heir William Wirt Winchester built a sprawling mansion with mazes, doors to nowhere, and staircases leading into ceilings—allegedly to confuse the ghosts of those killed by Winchester rifles.

Physicist Niels Bohr was given a house by the Carlsberg Foundation as Denmark's most honored scientist, located next to the Carlsberg brewery. The house came with free beer on tap, delivered directly from the brewery next door.

Every 87 seconds, a house catches fire in the United States—that's about 944 residential fires every single day.

More than 500,000 U.S. households still lack complete indoor plumbing.

A Missouri family sued the previous owners of a house that they had just bought after Brown Recluse Spiders "started bleeding out of the walls." An expert came in and estimated that the house was infested with 4,000 — 5,000 of the spiders.