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Celebrating the Unusual With HGTV's Home Strange Home

Step inside these remarkable homes to see how visionary homeowners lived out their dreams and fantasies in the offbeat homes they created — including Luna Parc in New Jersey, Casa Neverlandia in Austin and a spaceship house in L.A.
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Luna Parc: Surrealist Sanctuary

When Beetlejuice dreams, chances are it looks a lot like Luna Parc. This fantasy-inspired home and "environmental sculpture park" located in a secluded section of rural New Jersey is the vision and creation of artist Ricky Boscarino. The color-saturated multistoried gingerbread mansion sits on five acres of lush woods and has been the artist’s home — and his life's work — since he purchased it in 1989. When Boscarino bought the property, the house was a plain, gray one-story building badly in need of repair. He set about painting the exterior in vibrant colors and then, gradually over the years, added multiple levels and elaborate additions. Boscarino describes his project as an art theme park and, in fact, the property was named after an Italian amusement park he visited as a youth.

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Raging Eclectic

Luna Parc is not just the artist's home. It is itself a perpetual artistic work-in-progress. The grand ballroom, the largest room in the house, serves as a gallery of Boscarino's works as well as a virtual museum of curios and oddities. The "chandelier" is made from objects found mostly on the property and extends through a floor opening into the cantina below.

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Luna Parc: Kitchen Kitsch Taken to the Limit

Luna Parc's kitchen is another homage to the eclectic, sporting a wild assortment of colors, vintage kitchen items, lava lamps, skulls, skeletons, surfaces covered entirely in bottle caps and a wall treatment fashioned from more than 10,000 wine corks.

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Luna Parc Loo: Form Follows Function

This bathroom in Luna Parc took more than five years to create and is another space that looks as if it could be straight out of a Tim Burton film. Covered in tile fragments — more than one million of them — the bath is a Gaudi-esque kaleidoscope of color. It's equipped with a freestanding shower as well as a urinal and bidet, and is described by Boscarino as "a monument to the body and its functions."

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