🏛️ Famous Houses Map

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Famous Houses Map

3,423 historic houses and famous people's homes worldwide, including 2,265 house museums and 918 houses in the UK, on a 3D globe. Drag or flick to turn the globe, tap a photo or dot for details, or press Spin the globe to land on a random house. Every house is always shown: nothing is clustered or hidden. Bigger photo markers are the best-known houses.

House and person records are from Wikidata (CC0); short histories are the opening of each house's English Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0); photos are from Wikimedia Commons and credited in each card and on each house page. See about & sources, the historic houses UK map and the A–Z list of houses.

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