About an hour’s drive southeast from Amsterdam is a 12th-century city called Den Bosch, which boasts the Netherlands’s largest Catholic church and an art center devoted to painter Hieronymus Bosch (who was born there). As Unusual Places reports, Den Bosch also plays host to a neighborhood comprising 50 golf ball-shaped homes.
The homes—aptly named
bolwoningen, for “ball houses”—were the last product of a grant for innovative residential developments the Dutch government launched in 1968. Dutch artist Dries Kreijkamp built them in 1984, the same year the grant was eliminated. Though the colorless, concrete abodes seem industrial or even futuristic, Kreijkamp actually based them on much older models: Inuit igloos and African clay huts.