Welcome to Our Virtual Tours!
Now in 2020, the Weird Homes Tour is offering a whole range of ways to experience our wonderfully weird homes from the comfort and safety of your home.
Check out our schedule below!
July 16th – The House of Love and Light
In the House of Love and Light you’ll need to check your manners at the door and forget everything your Mother told you about NOT writing on the wall, because in this colorful abode, scribbling, finger-painting (and more!) is exactly what we have done!
12pm CT on Instagram (via the app)
7pm CT on YouTube (subscribe below)
July 30th – The Gregangelo Museum
Equal parts bizarre and wondrous, the museum serves both as a living work of art and as headquarters to Velocity Circus. With Gregangelo serving as Ringmaster, visitors explore 13 evocative realms inspired by themes of history, humanity, and the cosmos.
12pm CT on Instagram (via the app)
7pm CT on YouTube (subscribe below)
August 4th – Atlas Obscura: The Art of Collecting What You Love
If you thought that Steve Wiman, owner of Austin’s iconic vintage store Uncommon Objects, would have a weird home, then you would be 100% right! This house is a collection of collections. Explore a treasure trove of personal acquisitions from around the globe. You will find collections of carved stone books, mother and child figurines, hand made Christmas ornaments, Mexican clay bird wall pockets and balls of all kinds including impressive string balls and Chinese “puzzle balls”. You might just walk away from this tour wanting to start a new collection of your own!
August 6th- Bloomhouse, Behind Austin’s Wildest Home
Bloomhouse serves as the thesis statement of designer Charles Harker. He sought out to experiment with materials and explore organic architecture in order to seek harmony with the natural world. And you can definitely see that in Bloomhouse’s design. The home forever flows and undulates. In fact, you can not find a single straight line in the house!
7pm central
August 13th – Village Farm Austin
Village Farm is a dynamic tiny home community-based in East Austin, centered around Green Gate Farm and designed to enhance the lives of residents with a mission to simplify life and foster a sense of community.
7pm CT on YouTube (subscribe below)
August 17-21 & 24-28 – Virtual Art Camp!
Join Weird Homes Tour and Art Camp 504 for a multimedia design class, open to students ages 7 – 14. Students will be inspired by photos and artists from Weird Homes Tours and will create their own bizarre and beautiful paper homes!
August 18th – Atlas Obscura: The Gregangelo Museum
Over the course of 4 decades, acclaimed artist and San Francisco native, Gregangelo, has transformed what was once an ordinary home into the one-of-a-kind artistic spectacle. With Gregangelo serving as our Ringmaster, visitors explore up to 36 evocative realms of his space inspired by themes of history, humanity, and the cosmos. In this online experience, we’ll virtually walk through his incredible space and its elaborately themed rooms with interactive from our host performances throughout.
August 20th – Hobbit Knoll
The Hobbit Knoll was inspired by the famous JRR Tolkien series and built for all his fans and hobbit lovers. Like in the story, 90% of this home is built into the earth. The front of the home opens up with a large glass door looking out on a breathtaking layered mountain view.
7pm CT on YouTube (subscribe below)
August 27th – Winston the Whale
In Portland, you will find the space of tattoo artist Winston the Whale. When asked about his inspiration for this beautiful space he said “If I can dig deep in my memory bank and think of where the influence came from, I would say somewhere between seeing the interiors featured in A Clockwork Orange and the colors and psychedelia of The Yellow Submarine.
12pm CT on Instagram (via the app)
7pm CT on YouTube (subscribe below)
September 1st – Atlas Obscura: Creating Your Own Fun House of Style
This fun and funky Detroit home belongs to Shanise Tucker. Over the past 15 years, Shanise has decorated her home with what inspires her. Every square inch bursts with style, color, art and interesting collections. There’s an indoor swing in the living room. Looking for a blanket and pillow set made out of blue jeans? It’s here. Disco ball psychedelic couch? You better believe it! When you talk to Shanise you will be inspired to embrace what inspires YOU to create your own fun sanctuary.
September 5th – 2020 Austin Weird Homes Tour – Virtual Tour
See the weirdest homes in AUSTIN, the weirdest city in America!’
Now in it’s SEVENTH year, the Austin Weird Homes Tour is doing something a little different this year – we are producing a 100% Virtual tour. Now you can come along with the Weird Homes Crew and visit these wonderfully weird homes from the comfort and safety of your home! And anyone in the world can tune in to enjoy!
September 10th – The Home of Stringed Taxidermy
Caitlin McCormack is a Philadelphia-based artist who works primarily with crocheted cotton thread, which is dredged in a mixture of glues, dyes, and paints and fashioned into sculptural forms. McCormack’s row home houses many collections of treasured objects, books, plants, and works of art.
12pm CT on Instagram (via the app)
7pm CT on YouTube (subscribe below)
September 15th – Atlas Obscura: The Bloomhouse
Welcome to the Bloomhouse! This unique home in the hills west of Austin is a study in organic, curvilinear architecture that seeks to find a symbiotic balance between humanity and nature. Over its 30+ years, the Bloomhouse has had a rich and fascinating history. Join us to learn more about the Bloomhouse’s colorful history and what it took to build, restore, and maintain this truly unique home.
September 17th – Treehouse Sanctuary
Take in the rustic, fairy tale vibe of this custom-made treehouse in the midst of towering white oaks. Recline in a rocking chair and watch the sunset over the mountains, or try your hand at some stargazing from the comfort of the deluxe double bed. And did we mention this home is on an 8-acre parcel with 4 other treehouses and a Hobbit house?
7pm CT on YouTube
September 22nd – Atlas Obscura: Ghosts in the Machines
Historian and self-professed occult archeologist Brandon Hodge invites you to his virtual home tour. He’ll reveal his massive collection of artifacts and relics of Spiritualism, a religious movement that gained popularity in the 19th century. See fragments of the house in Wayne County, New York, where the Spiritualism movement started, Ouija boards, and many more spectral objects used to contact the departed.
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September 24th – The Pizza Box King
Pizza boxes aren’t a common item to collect, which is exactly what makes this Guinness World Record collection of over 1,500 (clean) worldwide pizza boxes so thrilling. Professional pizza enthusiast Scott Wiener started collecting boxes in 2009 after launching Scott’s Pizza Tours in NYC.
12pm CT on Instagram (via the app)
7pm CT on YouTube (subscribe below)
September 26th – 2020 Portland Weird Homes Tour – Virtual Tour
See the weirdest homes in PORTLAND, the weirdest city in America!’
Now in it’s THIRD year, the Portland Weird Homes Tour is doing something a little different this year – we are producing a 100% Virtual tour. Now you can come along with the Weird Homes Crew and visit these wonderfully weird homes from the comfort and safety of your home! And anyone in the world can tune in to enjoy!
October 1st – Gotham Taxidermy
Welcome to the weird and whimsical home of Divya Anantharaman, one of New York’s finest taxidermy experts. Her work seeks to combine the demonstrative aspect of scientific presentation with the symbolic, introspective nature of art, a historic sensibility calibrated for our modern world. Check out her website and Instagram.
12pm CT on Instagram (via the app)
7pm CT on YouTube (subscribe)
October 8th – The Adventurous Victorian
Inside this unassuming Victorian home lives modern-day explorer and mystery solver, Justin Fornal. On top of hosting his TV show UNEXPLAINED AND UNEXPLORED , he’s been slowly transforming this Victorian home into an opulent visual experience with a macabre sensibility. The home features six bedrooms, six fireplaces and several secret passages.
7pm CT on YouTube (subscribe)
October 22nd – Ultimate Hot Wheels Collection
Hot Wheels came out in 1968 when Bruce was just 7 years old. He was hooked then as a child, and the love affair with Hot Wheels started over again in 1999 when he jumped at the chance to buy the rarest Hot Wheels he could find. Today, Bruce holds what some consider as the most valuable Hot Wheels collection in the world!
7pm CT on YouTube
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