Picture shows garden gnomes in front of a handmade house at a private garden in Lindau at lake Constance. The first garden gnomes were introduced to the United Kingdom in 1847 by Sir Charles Isham, when he brought 21 terracotta figures back from a trip to Germany. Garden gnomes are a popular accessory in many German gardens
A girl peers through a garden gnomes house window at a private garden in Lindau at lake Constance.
Craftsman Evgeny Smolik walks through the richly ornamented gates of his house in the Siberian village of Irbeyskoe some 180 km (112 miles) east of Krasnoyarsk. Smolik, a self-educated craftsman, adorned his 19th century village house and its interior with a wide range of wood carvings and hand crafted furniture in fantasy designs that are inspired by the traditional Russian Lubok print, surrealism, fairy tales and his personal sense of humour.
A cat sits on a post in front of Evgeny Smolik's house
A tourist walks to a yurt in Tengeri Desert, on the outskirts of Zhongwei, China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
A man walks after praying outside a floating shack on a fish farm on the delta of the Nile River.
Potential buyers stand with an agent on the balcony of a three-bedroom home made from four old shipping containers in Sydney. The two-storey mobile home also includes two bathrooms, timber floors, air-conditioning, a kitchen, laundry, balcony and sewage treatment tank, which can be pulled apart in less than a day for ease of transportation.
Agent Bob Allan walks through the three-bedroom home made from shipping containers.
A woman from the ethnic Hazara minority stands in front of her cave home in Bamiyan, some 240 km (150 miles) northwest of Kabul.
A worker decorates a house with ceramic chips in Tianjin. The house cost some 500 million yuan ($65 million) to build and contains more than 400 million pieces of porcelain.
A lavatory-shaped home is seen in this computer graphic image released in Seoul.
Thierry Atta sweeps the courtyard of his house built in the shape of a crocodile in Ivory Coast's capital Abidjan.
A view of about 70 domes houses, which were built by U.S. based Domes for the World, for villagers who lost their houses to an earthquake in Sumberharjo village, near Indonesia's ancient city of Yogyakarta.
General view of a tree-house in Le Pian Medoc, southwestern France.
Brazilian artists Tiago Primo (top) and his brother Gabriel hang out at a wall in Rio de Janeiro. The bizarre vertical "house" built on a climbing wall by the artists has been drawing the attention of thousands who walk by the installation in the city's downtown neighbourhood.
A general view shows homes in the village of Kandovan, 650 km northwest of Tehran. Kandovan is a village where homes are dug out of the rock formations in the foothills of the Sahand mountain.
A house partially built in the shape of an airplane is seen in Abuja.
Zhao Zhenli, 54, stands at the entrance to his cave where he lives in Gao Ling at the outskirts of Xi'an at Northwest China's Shaanxi province. The caves were dug and still in use for residential purposes since at least 200 years ago, a local resident said.
Shi Hao, 17, watches television in the cave where he lives in Gao Ling at the outskirts of Xi'an in Shaanxi province.
Residents climb into their houses atop gravestones inside a cemetery in Manila. Many poor urban dwellers make their homes in public cemeteries, converting abandoned tombs and mausoleums into houses.
Dolores Cruz watches television inside her makeshift house next to a tomb inside a cemetery in Manila.
A Romanian boy looks at a flood-damaged house in the village of Agas, 330km northeast of Bucharest.
Chen Yu prepares supper as his wife Zhang sits on the bed at home, in a waste cellar used to store vegetables in Changchun.
A Kosovo Albanian child sits outside his grandfather's house with a car door used for a window in Pristina.
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