Houses & Interiors
The most beautiful Victorian houses on earth — San Francisco's Painted Ladies, moated English manors, and a San Jose mansion with 160 rooms.
The Painted Ladies
America's most photographed Victorians — a row of Queen Anne showpieces glowing against the San Francisco skyline.
Carson Mansion
A lumber baron's $80,000 Queen Anne masterpiece — widely called the grandest Victorian home in America.
Tyntesfield
A Gothic Revival cathedral of a house, built on a guano fortune and frozen in time.
Cragside
The house where modern living began — a 'palace of a modern magician' and the first in the world lit by hydroelectricity.
Mark Twain House
The house Twain called 'the loveliest home that ever was' — part steamboat, part medieval fortress, part cuckoo clock.
Winchester Mystery House
Thirty-eight years of near-constant construction built the strangest house in America — 160 rooms with no master plan.
Waddesdon Manor
A Rothschild weekend palace in the style of a Loire château — the grandest house party ever built.
Leighton House
A plain red-brick studio house that opens onto the most dazzling room in Victorian London — the Arab Hall.