The wackiest sight on the eastern shore is without doubt Boswell’s Glass House. With a mortuarist’s sense of humor, funeral director David H Brown decided to build his dream retirement home out of used embalming-fluid bottles, half a million of them in total. The result is a whimsy of turrets, towers, bridges and even a garden shed, all made from recycled bottles.
Glass House
British Columbia
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