The world is full of megacities inhabited by millions of people. However, there are still places on our planet where you can feel truly alone with yourself and take a break from work colleagues, noise, and endless phone calls.
Check out Spuntik's gallery, with houses made for introverts, houses that cannot be easily approached, and what is more, will not be easily found.
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Drina river house, a wooden, cabin-like building on a rock is located in the middle of the Drina river, near the town of Bajina Bašta in western Serbia. The original house was reportedly built in 1968 by a group of swimmers who needed shelter.
CC BY-SA 4.0 / Followyourheartmarkomaodus / Kucica na Drini (cropped photo)
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The Little Red Toolangi Treehouse in Toolangi State Forest, Victoria, Australia. The house was built as a protest against the ongoing logging of native forest in the region.
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Wordie House on Winter Island was established on 7 January 1947. The hut is named after James Wordie (chief scientist and geologist on Shackleton's Endurance expedition) and is located on Argentine Islands, Wilhelm Archipelago, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
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Portugal's Stone House or Casa do Penedo in Portuguese is located in the mountains of Fafe. The house is rumoured to be inspired by the Flinstones cartoon.
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At the top of the Katskhi pillar in the western Georgian region of Imereti, there is a church, a crypt, three hermit cells, and a curtain wall. The buildings date back to the 9th century, however, they were abandoned around the 1400s, left to be veiled in myth and legend.
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An entrance to an underground house in Coober Pedy, Australia. About 2,000 Coober Pedy residents live in buildings they’ve burrowed into the sides of hills deep under the surface in order to escape the tremendous desert summer heat, winter cold, dust, and insects.
CC BY-SA 3.0 / Lodo27 /
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The Crystal Mill or the Old Mill is a wooden building located on an outcrop above the Crystal River in Crystal, Colorado, United States. The house was built in 1892.
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The Solvay Hut or Solvay Bivouac is located at a height of 4,003 metres on the northeastern ridge (Hörnli Ridge) of the Matterhorn, near Zermatt in the canton of Valais.
CC BY-SA 3.0 / Orion666 /
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Buachaille Etive Mòr viewed from the A82 which runs through Glen Coe, with the white cottage of Lagangarbh next to the river Coupall. The cottage, converted from a crofter's home, is used as a Scottish Mountaineering Club hut, and can accommodate 20 people, with 10 more in a barn behind. The trees to the west were planted to provide shelter from the wind. The main mountain peak on the left is Stob Dearg at 1,022 metres.
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This island, called "Just Room Enough", is the closest island to the famous Boldt Castle. One of the Thousand Islands, with only enough room for a single house. The island is located in the Thousand Islands chain, belonging to New York, United States.
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A house located in rice terrace fields in the village of La Pan Tan in the Mu Cang Chai district, Yen Bai Province, northwestern Vietnam.
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An isolated house at Lake Tekapo, New Zealand.