History Main / CoolHouse

* In the ''Film/{{The Princess Diaries}}'', Mia and her mom live in a firehouse located in San Francisco. The interior layout is the same as a regular house but with a few exceptions. The fire alarm is used as the door bell. The fire pole serves as a way of going downstairs. The main entrance and exit is through a door, which is right next to the garage door. Mia's bedroom is on the top floor and it can only be accessed by climbing a ladder. Part of the interior layout is decorated like an artist's studio (Mia's mom works as an artist). There is a wooden stairway on the side of the building, which is a private exit. Mia's mom parks her car on the sidewalk in front of the firehouse. The garage door has no use other than appearance.

* In the ''Film/{{ThePrincessDiaries}}'', Mia and her mom live in a firehouse located in San Francisco. The interior layout is the same as a regular house but with a few exceptions. The fire alarm is used as the door bell. The fire pole serves as a way of going downstairs. The main entrance and exit is through a door, which is right next to the garage door. Mia's bedroom is on the top floor and it can only be accessed by climbing a ladder. Part of the interior layout is decorated like an artist's studio (Mia's mom works as an artist). There is a wooden stairway on the side of the building, which is a private exit. Mia's mom parks her car on the sidewalk in front of the firehouse. The garage door has no use other than appearance.

* In the film version of the ''Princess Diaries'', Mia and her mom live in a firehouse located in San Francisco. The interior layout is the same as a regular house but with a few exceptions. The fire alarm is used as the door bell. The fire pole serves as a way of going downstairs. The main entrance and exit is through a door, which is right next to the garage door. Mia's bedroom is on the top floor and it can only be accessed by climbing a ladder. Part of the interior layout is decorated like an artist's studio (Mia's mom works as an artist). There is a wooden stairway on the side of the building, which is a private exit. Mia's mom parks her car on the sidewalk in front of the firehouse. The garage door has no use other than appearance.

* In the film version of the ''Princess Diaries'', Mia and her mom live in a firehouse located in San Francisco. The interior layout is the same as a regular house but with a few exceptions. The fire alarm is used as the door bell. The fire pole serves as a way of going downstairs. The main entrance and exit is through a door, which is right next to the garage door. Mia's bedroom is on the top floor and it can only be accessed by climbing a ladder. Part of the interior layout is decorated like an artist's studio (Mia's mom works as an artist). There is a wooden stairway on the side of the building, which serves as a private exit. Mia's mom parks her car on the sidewalk in front of the firehouse. The garage door has no use other than appearance.

* In the film version of the ''Princess Diaries'', Mia and her mom live in a firehouse located in San Francisco. The interior layout is the same as a regular house but with a few exceptions. The fire alarm is used as the door bell. The fire pole serves as a means of going downstairs. The main entrance and exit is through a door which is right next to the garage door. Mia's bedroom is on the top floor and it can only be accessed by climbing a ladder. Part of the interior layout is decorated like an artist's studio (Mia's mom works as an artist). There is a wooden stairway on the side of the building, which serves as a private exit. Mia's mom parks her car on the sidewalk in front of the firehouse. The garage door has no use other than appearance.

* In the film version of the ''Princess Diaries'', Mia and her mom live in a fire house located in San Francisco. The interior layout is the same as a regular house but with a few exceptions. The fire alarm is used as the door bell. The fire pole serves as a means of going downstairs. The main entrance and exit is through a door which is right next to the garage door. Mia's bedroom is on the top floor and it can only be accessed by climbing a ladder. Part of the interior layout is decorated like an artist's studio (Mia's mom works as an artist). There is a wooden stairway on the side of the building, which serves as a private exit. Mia's mom parks her car on the sidewalk in front of the firehouse. The garage door has no use other than appearance.

* In the film version of the ''Princess Diaries'', Mia and her mom live in a fire house located in San Francisco. The interior layout is the same as a regular house but with a few exceptions. The fire alarm is used as the door bell. The fire pole serves as a means of going downstairs. The main entrance and exit is through a door, that is right next to the garage door. Mia's bedroom is on the top floor, but it can only be accessed by climbing a ladder. Part of the interior layout is decorated like an artist's studio (Mia's mom works as an artist). There is a wooden stairway on the side of the building, which serves as a private exit. Mia's mom parks her car on the sidewalk in front of the firehouse. The garage door has no use other than appearance.

* In the film version of the ''Princess Diaries'', Mia and her mom live in a fire house located in San Francisco. The interior layout is the same as a regular house but with a few exceptions. The fire alarm is used as the door bell. The fire pole serves as a means of going downstairs. The main entrance and exit is through a door, that is right next to the garage door. Mia's mom parks her car on the sidewalk in front of the firehouse. Mia's bedroom is on the top floor, but it can only be accessed by climbing a ladder. Part of the layout is decorated like an artist's studio (Mia's mom works as an artist). There is a wooden stairway on the side of the building, which serves as a private exit. The garage door has no use other than appearance.

* In the film version of the ''Princess Diaries'', Mia and her mom live in a fire house located in San Francisco. The layout is the same as a regular house but with a few exceptions. The fire alarm is used as the door bell. The fire pole serves as a means of going downstairs. The main entrance and exit is through a door next to the garage door. Mia's mom parks her car on the sidewalk in front of the firehouse. Mia's bedroom is on the top floor, but it can only be accessed by climbing a ladder. Part of the layout is decorated like an artist's studio (Mia's mom works as an artist). There is a wooden stairway on the side of the building, which serves as a private exit. The garage door has no use other than appearance.

* In the film version of the ''Princess Diaries'', Mia and her mom live in a fire house located in San Francisco. The layout is the same as a regular house but with a few exceptions. The fire alarm is used as the door bell. The fire pole serves as a means of getting downstairs. The main entrance and exit is through a door next to the garage door. Mia's mom parks her car on the sidewalk in front of the firehouse. Mia's bedroom is on the top floor, but it can only be accessed by climbing a ladder. Part of the layout is decorated like an artist's studio (Mia's mom works as an artist). There is a wooden stairway on the side of the building, which serves as a private exit. The garage door has no use other than appearance.

* In the film version of the ''Princess Diaries'', Mia and her mom live in a fire house located in San Francisco. The layout is the same as a regular house but with a few exceptions. The fire alarm is used as the door bell. The fire pole serves as a means of getting downstairs. The main entrance and exit is through a door next to the garage door. Mia's mom parks her car on the sidewalk in front of the firehouse. Mia's bedroom is on the top floor, but it can only be accessed by climbing a ladder. Part of the layout is decorated like an artist's studio (Mia's mom works as an artist). There is a wooden stairway on the side of the building - which serves as a private exit. The garage door has no use other than appearance.

* In the film version of the ''Princess Diaries'', Mia and her mom live in a fire house located in San Francisco. The layout is the same as a regular house but with a few exceptions. The fire alarm is used as the door bell. The fire pole serves as a means of getting downstairs. The main entrance and exit is through a door next to the garage door, itself. Mia's mom parks her car on the sidewalk in front of the firehouse. Mia's bedroom is on the top floor, but it can only be accessed by climbing a ladder. Part of the layout is decorated like an artist's studio (Mia's mom works as an artist). There is a wooden stairway on the side of the building - which serves as a private exit. The garage door has no use other than appearance.

* In the film version of the ''Princess Diaries'', Mia and her mom live in a fire house in San Francisco. The layout is the same as a house but with a few exceptions. The fire alarm is used as the door bell. The fire pole serves as a means of getting downstairs. The only way into the house is through a door next to the garage door itself. Mia's mom parks her car on the sidewalk in front of the firehouse. Mia's bedroom is on the top floor but it can only be accessed by climbing a ladder. The rest of the layout is decorated like an artist studio (especially since Mia's mom works as an artist).

As a member of the [[ImpossiblyCoolWealth Fiction 500]], you own an awesomely cool [[CoolCar car]], [[CoolBoat boat]], [[CoolPlane plane]][[note]]If taking place in the future, substitute CoolStarship. If taking place in a SteamPunk setting, substitute CoolAirship[[/note]], and a [[CoolGarage garage]] to keep them in, but where do you get your mail delivered? Where do you hang out when not on amazing adventures? A BigFancyHouse? No, too normal. It must be a CoolHouse.

To be a CoolHouse, the standard suburban mansion, SleekHighRiseApartment or BigFancyHouse just doesn't cut it. The CoolHouse is WishFulfillment in real estate form. It might look like an ordinary home or something that wouldn't normally be used as a house, but in either case the briefest of tours of its features will reveal that it is no ordinary home.

To qualify for CoolHouse status a dwelling should be sufficiently unique that any "normal" person aware of its full capabilities would be either in awe, concerned about the owner or designer's sanity, or concerned lest the house fall into the wrong hands. Thankfully {{Cool House}}s are often protected by a WeirdnessCensor.

Not to be confused with a [[Series/{{House}} popular television doctor]].

* The main characters' house in ''Anime/{{Popotan}}''. It not only sports a Christmas store, but can also travel through time... [[BlessedWithSuck which later turns out to not be so cool at all]].

* Tomahna is revealed to be this in ''VideoGame/MystIVRevelation'', while only hinted at in ''VideoGame/MystIIIExile''. They even have an ''elevator''. Bonus points for it being [[spoiler:written into Earth by its patriarch, Atrus, your friend and MrExposition from the first games.]]

* [[ComicBook/XMen Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]]. Which is actually an extremely upgraded mansion. Whenever the student body gets too large, ''two extra mansions are added on the grounds''.

[[folder: Western Animation]]
%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * The Fenton household in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''.
%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''.
%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * The Propulsion household in ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo''

[[folder: Anime]]

[[folder: Comic Books]]
* The [[http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Fortress_of_Solitude#Fortress_of_Solitude_in_other_media Fortress of Solitude]], {{Franchise/Superman}}'s arctic crystal castle. Depending on the media, it is either an alien structure of criss-crossing crystals ([[{{Film/Superman}} the films]], ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', ''VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline'', etc.) or just looks like an ice mountain (the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'', etc.)

[[folder: Literature]]
* The Aerie, the Colorado cabin in ''Literature/AuntDimity Goes West'', is one of these. It seems to have grown organically from the mountainside, and it features a variety of decks and windows in many shapes (including portholes and stars). The place also has a variety of luxuries (a massive indoor play fort in the boys' bedroom suite, sauna, hot tub, arcade game room, home theatre, library, outdoor firepit, indoor fireplaces, and so on). One of the characters calls it the owner's treehouse, explicitly stating that he was forbidden a treehouse while growing up and used his wealth as an adult to live the dream. The local pastor's wife comes for a visit and is visibly impressed with the place from the moment she enters.
* Creator/JasperFforde's Sergeant Mary Mary lives in a re-purposed plane, specifically a Short S.25 Sunderland, a British flying boat patrol bomber. Literature/ThursdayNext lives there while in hiding during her first pregnancy, and the location also features in one of the Nursery Crimes books.

[[folder: Live Action TV]]
* The TARDIS on ''Series/DoctorWho'', the ultimate mobile home.
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[[folder: Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays''.
* Syndrome's volcano home in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''.
* Dexter's house in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''. The lab has ''uncharted areas''.
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[[folder: Film]]
* The house Marvin (John Malkovich's character) in the film version of ''Film/{{Red}}'' has certainly qualified. The house you see is a front. The real house is entered through the broken down trunk of a car. It has no electronics or phone; Marvin is a CloudCuckooLander who is almost always 'right' about his conspiracy theories. Inside is a full house, including an old-style safe vault with all the secrets he's collected.
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'''A house with most (if not all) of the above'''

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* [[Manga/HayateTheCombatButler Nagi's mansion.]]
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' gives us the Masaki residence. Complete with interdimentional portals and a [[MadScientistLaboratory Secret Laboratory]] courtesy of Washu.
* The main characters' house in ''Anime/{{Popotan}}''. It not only sports a Christmas store, but can also travel through time... [[BlessedWithSuck which later turns out to not be so cool at all]].
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[[folder: Literature]]
* Literature/ArtemisFowl's home. He has any technology you can imagine, awesome visitors, and it's basically a friggin' castle. A wine cellar, a holding room, and a room dedicated to watching news. Here's one of the elevator things. Fowl Manor = Win.
* Nanaki's house in the Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote novel ''The Youkai Computer Knows'' to the point it looks quite jarringly fantastic for a premise within realistic Greater UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} backdrop. Not only Nanaki uses his [[TeenGenius AI skills]] to manage a BigFancyHouse while in the state of MinorLivingAlone, including driverless cars, robotic servants, and large numbers of sensors to reporting literally everything in the house (to the point of precision agriculture). It's also self-sufficient in terms of food production, involving a fish farm and what the novel refers as miniature farm animals. On top of it it's egg-shaped, highly unusual in Japan where strict building codes mean most houses are pre-fab.
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[[folder: Music]]
* ''Music/NinjaSexParty:'' The song "Mansion Party" takes place in a house with such features as a diamond fridge that costs more than the entire country of Peru, an entire battle arena just for watching pandas engage in gladiatorial combat, and a tiger. It's so huge that just getting to the dance floor requires elaborate directions and possibly a horse.
-->Hey, girl, heard you couldn't find the dance floor\\
Just walk right past the garden, go through the Spanish French doors\\
Turn right at the seventh bathroom, then a left at my laser car\\
You can ride my purebred stallion, if you hit my moat you've gone too far\\
''(You've gone too far)''\\
Take an upside down left at the M.C. Escher stairs\\
Okay, you're almost halfway there
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[[folder: Video Games]]
* Tomahna is revealed to be this in ''VideoGame/MystIVRevelation'', while only hinted at in ''VideoGame/MystIIIExile''. They even have an ''elevator''. Bonus points for it being [[spoiler:written into Earth by its patriarch, Atrus, your friend and MrExposition from the first games.]]
* Nikifor's house in '' [[VideoGame/{{Aura}} The Sacred Rings]] '', where the game starts. It has its own telescope, a secret room, and an elevator. With enough [[PowerCrystal battery crystals]], the house can even ''walk''.
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[[folder: Web Comics]]
* Repelista Jahad's floating castle with the Opera light house from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Western Animation]]
%%* Ghost Command, the HauntedHeadquarters of WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Sector V's treehouse.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Ladies and gentlemen, [[http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/195gccfnfdchhjpg/original.jpg the home of the Crystal Gems]]. The wooden house part on the exterior is ''just Steven's room''; inside that statue is a temple which the Gems themselves claim, a sprawling interior with long winding halls, floating platforms, and ''magic waterfalls''.
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[[folder: Real Life]]
* TheWhiteHouse in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC now has, or has previously incorporated, most of the features listed under category 1. ''Especially'' the security system. And the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem application process]] to move into the place is tricky, to say the least.
* 10 Downing Street, residence and office of the UK Prime Minister, also arguably qualifies. From the front it's an unassuming 3-storey house on a small London side-street. Inside it has over 100 rooms and offices. The door is bomb-proof steel and cannot be opened from the outside, only from inside.
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!!Examples, from least cool to coolest:

'''A house that looks completely ordinary, but is actually heavily automated, [[AIIsACrapshoot often resulting in trouble]]'''

* Youta Moteuchi from ''Manga/VideoGirlAi''. Justified, since his DisappearedDad is a famous architect and artist thus he designed his own home.

[[folder: Live Action TV]]
* SARAH from ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' (as normal looking as any underground bunker/house can look).

'''A house that looks completely ordinary, but hides such features as the roof pivots on a hinge to release an airship larger than the house, or some other equally unlikely thing'''

[[folder: Western Animation]]
%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * The Fenton household in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''.
%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * The Propulsion household in ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo''

* Skeeve's flat on Deva (''Literature/MythAdventures'') looks like a small tent on the outside, but the inside is in a slightly different dimension, and is much bigger. Of course, he has vampires living in his back yard, so that's a little less cool.

'''A house that looks spooky or odd, presumably the home of an eccentric at best. When you enter, you realize that the exterior of the house is the most normal thing about it'''

%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * In the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse, [[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Smithwood_Manor the Doctor has one of these]].
%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * Anubis House of ''Series/HouseOfAnubis''.

'''A BigFancyHouse that is really a front for an ElaborateUndergroundBase, PLUS it has additional gadgets'''

[[folder: Comic Books ]]
%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Wayne Manor]].
* [[ComicBook/XMen Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]]. Which is actually an extremely upgraded mansion. Whenever the student body gets too large, ''two extra mansions are added on the grounds''.
* Comicbook/DoctorStrange's Sanctum Sanctorum. Ordinary New York brownstone on the outside; base of operations for a very busy wizard and his assistant on the inside.. plus it may be alive.

[[folder: Film]]
%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * Dr. Morbius' house in ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet''.
* In ''Film/{{Help}}'', Music/TheBeatles have a variation on this; they appear to live next door to each other in four rather humble houses on a terraced estate, but it's revealed that the interior walls have been knocked down to make it one large mansion inside with separate [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience color-coded]] areas (Ringo = blue, John = red, Paul = white, George = green) full of cool stuff inside (Ringo's got several vending machines for snacks, John's got a spinning bookshelf, Paul's got an organ brought up from the basement, and George's got a lawn with a live-in gardener).
* In ''Film/ExMachina'', Nathan's home looks like a few wooden buildings from the outside, but it's largely a [[ElaborateUndergroundBase spacious subterranean compound]]. Nathan describes his home as being primarily a research laboratory, but it has all the comforts of a futuristic mansion. There is an elaborate security system and a huge amount of advanced technology in the labs. He also owns the vast tracts of pristine forests and mountains around it, such that two hours of the helicopter ride are spent flying over them.

* First-time visitors to the [[{{Literature/Duumvirate}} Dominator's]] island may think it's just a mirrored-steel BigFancyHouse with lasers on top. There's a weapon embedded in every wall, jets hidden under the grass outside, and an elevator that goes down to a massive basement with its own pool, video arcade, library, ''enormous warehouse of weapons''...

[[folder: Video Games]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo29mhIPrOw Bowser's Castle]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UnhtZSjaBc Princess Peach's Castle]] from the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series, but especially in ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Bowser's Inside Story]]'', where the former can actually fight against Bowser while giant, and the latter turns into a HumongousMecha with missile launcher and black hole generator. Not counting what's in either of the actual buildings.
* Tomahna is revealed to be this in ''VideoGame/MystIVRevelation'', while only hinted at in ''VideoGame/MystIIIExile''. A variant in that the ElaborateUndergroundBase consists of only one room: [[spoiler:the linking chamber to Spire and Haven.]]

'''A house that doesn't even look like a house, but it sure is cool'''

[[folder: Anime]]
* ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'':
** Sonic and Tails live in a re-purposed ''airplane''. With train cars and what looks like a satellite dish for a roof.
** The exact same house is used as Sonic's house in the fan blog ''Blog/AlwaysHavingJuice''.

[[folder: Comic Books]]
* The [[http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Fortress_of_Solitude#Fortress_of_Solitude_in_other_media Fortress of Solitude]], {{Franchise/Superman}}'s arctic crystal castle. Depending on the media, it is either an alien structure of criss-crossing crystals ([[{{Film/Superman}} the films]], ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', ''VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline'', etc.) or just looks like an ice mountain (the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'', etc.)

* The Aerie, the Colorado cabin in ''Literature/AuntDimity Goes West'', is one of these. It seems to have grown organically from the mountainside, and it features a variety of decks and windows in many shapes (including portholes and stars). The place also has a variety of luxuries (a massive indoor play fort in the boys' bedroom suite, sauna, hot tub, arcade game room, home theatre, library, outdoor firepit, indoor fireplaces, and so on). One of the characters calls it the owner's treehouse, explicitly stating that he was forbidden a treehouse while growing up and used his wealth as an adult to live the dream. The local pastor's wife comes for a visit and is visibly impressed with the place from the moment she enters.
* Creator/JasperFforde's Sergeant Mary Mary lives in a re-purposed plane, specifically a Short S.25 Sunderland, a British flying boat patrol bomber. Literature/ThursdayNext lives there while in hiding during her first pregnancy, and the location also features in one of the Nursery Crimes books.

[[folder: Live Action TV]]
* The TARDIS on ''Series/DoctorWho'', the ultimate mobile home.

[[folder: Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays''.
* Syndrome's volcano home in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''.
* Dexter's house in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''. The lab has ''uncharted areas''.

[[folder: Film]]
* The house Marvin (John Malkovich's character) in the film version of ''Film/{{Red}}'' has certainly qualified. The house you see is a front. The real house is entered through the broken down trunk of a car. It has no electronics or phone; Marvin is a CloudCuckooLander who is almost always 'right' about his conspiracy theories. Inside is a full house, including an old-style safe vault with all the secrets he's collected.

'''A house with most (if not all) of the above'''

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* [[Manga/HayateTheCombatButler Nagi's mansion.]]
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' gives us the Masaki residence. Complete with interdimentional portals and a [[MadScientistLaboratory Secret Laboratory]] courtesy of Washu.
* The main characters' house in ''Anime/{{Popotan}}''. It not only sports a Christmas store, but can also travel through time... [[BlessedWithSuck which later turns out to not be so cool at all]].

[[folder: Literature]]
* Literature/ArtemisFowl's home. He has any technology you can imagine, awesome visitors, and it's basically a friggin' castle. A wine cellar, a holding room, and a room dedicated to watching news. Here's one of the elevator things. Fowl Manor = Win.
* Nanaki's house in the Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote novel ''The Youkai Computer Knows'' to the point it looks quite jarringly fantastic for a premise within realistic Greater UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} backdrop. Not only Nanaki uses his [[TeenGenius AI skills]] to manage a BigFancyHouse while in the state of MinorLivingAlone, including driverless cars, robotic servants, and large numbers of sensors to reporting literally everything in the house (to the point of precision agriculture). It's also self-sufficient in terms of food production, involving a fish farm and what the novel refers as miniature farm animals. On top of it it's egg-shaped, highly unusual in Japan where strict building codes mean most houses are pre-fab.

[[folder: Music]]
* ''Music/NinjaSexParty:'' The song "Mansion Party" takes place in a house with such features as a diamond fridge that costs more than the entire country of Peru, an entire battle arena just for watching pandas engage in gladiatorial combat, and a tiger. It's so huge that just getting to the dance floor requires elaborate directions and possibly a horse.
-->Hey, girl, heard you couldn't find the dance floor\\
Just walk right past the garden, go through the Spanish French doors\\
Turn right at the seventh bathroom, then a left at my laser car\\
You can ride my purebred stallion, if you hit my moat you've gone too far\\
''(You've gone too far)''\\
Take an upside down left at the M.C. Escher stairs\\
Okay, you're almost halfway there
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Video Games]]
* Tomahna is revealed to be this in ''VideoGame/MystIVRevelation'', while only hinted at in ''VideoGame/MystIIIExile''. They even have an ''elevator''. Bonus points for it being [[spoiler:written into Earth by its patriarch, Atrus, your friend and MrExposition from the first games.]]
* Nikifor's house in '' [[VideoGame/{{Aura}} The Sacred Rings]] '', where the game starts. It has its own telescope, a secret room, and an elevator. With enough [[PowerCrystal battery crystals]], the house can even ''walk''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Web Comics]]
* Repelista Jahad's floating castle with the Opera light house from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Western Animation]]
%%* Ghost Command, the HauntedHeadquarters of WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Sector V's treehouse.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Ladies and gentlemen, [[http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/195gccfnfdchhjpg/original.jpg the home of the Crystal Gems]]. The wooden house part on the exterior is ''just Steven's room''; inside that statue is a temple which the Gems themselves claim, a sprawling interior with long winding halls, floating platforms, and ''magic waterfalls''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Real Life]]
* TheWhiteHouse in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC now has, or has previously incorporated, most of the features listed under category 1. ''Especially'' the security system. And the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem application process]] to move into the place is tricky, to say the least.
* 10 Downing Street, residence and office of the UK Prime Minister, also arguably qualifies. From the front it's an unassuming 3-storey house on a small London side-street. Inside it has over 100 rooms and offices. The door is bomb-proof steel and cannot be opened from the outside, only from inside.
[[/folder]]

* Nikifor's house in '' [[VideoGame/{{Aura}} TheSacredRings]] '', where the game starts. It has its own telescope, a secret room, and an elevator. With enough [[PowerCrystal battery crystals]], the house can even ''walk''.

* Nikifor's house in '' [[VideoGame/{{Aura}} TheSacredRings]] '', where the game starts.

* Repellista Zahard's floating castle with the Opera light house from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod''.

[[folder: Web Original]]
%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * In the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', Doctor Ka's mansion in New Orleans bears a striking resemblance to the Winchester Mansion. And for the same reason.
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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

[[folder: Literature ]]

[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

[[folder: Web Original ]]

[[folder: Western Animation ]]

[[folder: Film ]]

[[folder: Literature ]]

[[folder: Video Games ]]

[[folder: Anime ]]

* In ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'', Sonic and Tails live in a re-purposed ''airplane''. With train cars and what looks like a satellite dish for a roof.

[[folder: Comic Books ]]

[[folder: Literature ]]

[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

[[folder: Western Animation ]]

[[folder: Film ]]

[[folder: Literature ]]

[[folder: Video Games ]]

[[folder: Web Comics ]]

[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* Ghost Command, the HauntedHeadquarters of WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Sector V's treehouse.

** [[SecretUndergroundPassage Secret passages]], fireman poles, concealed helipad.

** The house is the '''only''' BigFancyHouse in a StepfordSuburbia city.