When plants run wild grow onto houses, the results can be spectacular — and weird. Sometimes, a building will just look like it’s grown a luxurious beard. Other times, though, it’ll look like something out of The Earth Without Us, with a house submerged in greenery.
Check out the most lush and astonishing images of houses covered by vines, leaves and blades of grass.
Top image via Wonderlane
A flower covered house in Half Moon Bay, California
(via Wonderlane)
Turf houses on Iceland
(via Christian Bickel)
A vine-covered house in Detroit by Andrew Moore
(via Memo.Ryecroft)
Curta de Argeș, Romania
(via Hipgnosis Vision)
Savannah, Georgia
(via Shutterstock/meanmachine77)
Cury Rivel, Sommerset, Great Britain
(via Geograph)
An ivy-clad house in Shere, Surrey, England
(via Colin Smith)
Düsseldorf, Germany
(via Joe Shoe/dittmeyer)
The Greenway Hotel and Spa in Cheltenham, UK
(via Guides For Brides)
Chenonceau, France
(via Shutterstock/Trudy Simmons)
University of Chicago, Illinois
(via Galen Frysinger)
Rocamadour, France
(via Dale Gillard)
Evanston, Illinois
(via Marit & Thomas Hinnosaar)
The house from the movie Death at a Funeral (2007)
(via Hooked On Houses)
Hamburg, Germany
(via Andrew O’Donnell)
Pennyhill Park Hotel, Bagshot, UK
(via Tablet Hotels)
Castro district, San Francisco, California
(via Steve Mohundro)
A British ivy covered cottage house
(via Interiordir)
