Demolition crews set fire to a luxury home teetering precariously along a crumbling cliffside, destroying it before the home can collapse into the lake more than 75 feet below. The Hill County Sheriff's Office decided to demolish the endangered luxury cliffside home in Whitney, Texas, after the home's owners, Robert and Denise Webb, decided that would be the best course of action. The Webbs were forced to evacuate and abandoned the home a few weeks ago after the home and...

1. Japanese Garden: Portland, Oregon As summer brings more comfortable weather and longer hours of sunlight, it's the perfect time to immerse yourself and your family in some of America's most beautiful gardens. While many botanical gardens and conservancies have plots dedicated to Japanese horticulture, Portland's Japanese Garden considers itself one of the most authentic outside of Japan. The 5.5-acre grounds are divided into five distinct styles designed to bring visitors closer to the peace, harmony and tranquility of nature....

Floating Island City Concept There's only so much land on earth that we can develop for residential purposes. Should humanity's next great settlement have roots in the water? ATDesignOffice, an architecture and design firm based in London, has proposed building a Floating City Island. Think of it as the next big, sustainable metropolis— just based on water instead of land. "The project offered an opportunity to develop a new urban nucleus of world-class residential, commercial and cultural facilities," the designers...