This is a collection of weird and unusual properties currently for sale around the world. If you like what you see here, please “Digg” or “Stumble” or post to your favorite social bookmark site. Thanks.

Dracula’s castle, Transylvania is on the market for around $80 million. Seems like a bargain to us, as long as there are no incumbent tenants. It certainly qualifies as one of the world’s most unusual properties for sale. This one has been bouncing around for what seems like an eternity. As a property investment, we suspect it would take a special kind of investor to get involved. Still if you can own it for all eternity………

Vatu Vara island is claimed to be the most expensive freehold island in the world. If you have to ask, you can’t afford it. It is often nicknamed Hat Island because of its unusual shape — the top of its peak is flat because it was once at sea level. It is part of the Lau group of islands and its peak dominates the surrounding skyline. It is said to be one of the last four freehold islands to come on to the market in Fiji.

Four lighthouses put up for auction in Virginia in January fail to sell.

The Middleground lighthouse off Newport News was the most popular, with a high bid of $6,000 and a total of two bids in the online auction. A single bidder has bid $5,000 apiece for the Thimble Shoal lighthouse at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, Smith Point lighthouse at the Potomac River’s mouth, and Wolf Trap lighthouse between the Rappahannock and York rivers. The government wants to transfer ownership to avoid maintainence costs. The lighthouses were first offered for free to agencies or nonprofits that would maintain them for public use, but no applicants were accepted. Buyers will not have to meet the same requirements.

The Coast Guard at some point will probably take bidders out to see what the lighthouses are like inside, said Lt. Cmdr. Richard Condit, lighthouse coordinator for the Coast Guard in Hampton Roads.
“We need to make sure people are in good-enough shape and healthy enough to make it onto lights safely,” he said. “If it’s flat calm, it’s simply a matter of climbing a vertical ladder. If it’s not flat calm, it’s a more difficult matter.” Looking at a photograph of Wolf Trap, Condit pointed out a small object sitting on the balcony that encircles the lighthouse. “That’s actually the bathroom,” he said. “It’s an outhouse. It looks like a phone booth with no door and a bench. You would use that, and you can tell where it would go.” The Middleground lighthouse, he said, has a slight tilt from being hit by a tugboat in 1979. Each of the four lighthouses has several floors inside, plus a basement. Do I hear ten grand, the lot? Any takers?

Straw Bale House for sale, price $195,000 Which is apparently less than the house cost to build in 2005. Solar Haven is completely independent of public utilities (except for telephone and Internet service provider). With the use of the Thermomax solar hot-water system and passive solar heating, there is no need for propane. This apparently saves a lot of money in the Winter months. The house is nearly finished and the structure is made completely from straw bales.

The Water Tower, Montrose, Dundee, Scotland.

B listed converted water tower Price £190,000

Just 20 minutes from Roswell, New Mexico on US highway 380. This site sits on approximately 8.26 acres. Extensive interior and exterior cleanup has been completed with refurbishment finished on entryway, entrapment area, blast vestibules, stairwell and utility tunnel. Upper and lower levels of the launch control center are nearly completed. Yep, you’ve guessed it, complete with blast doors, fully refurbished and good to go, except for the missiles presumably, the 579th Strategic Missile Squadron silo site 4 can be yours as far as I could ascertain for around $200,000. Interested parties can call Gary on (505) 627-3374. Gary is looking for parties who might be prepared to run a joint venture. I kid you not, that’s the number to call. Not only that, but he has several other “interesting” similar properties for sale.

To us “Game Farm” seems an oxymoron, but this one is for sale for $5.2 million. On the edge of the Kruger National Park in South Africa. This is a successful Cape buffalo breeding enterprise with regular annual net income in the region of six to eight million rand. At present there are about 80 cows and 6 bulls. The government has indicated that these projects will be running for another 5 years. It is visualized that ‘developers’ would be able to rely on incomes generated by the buffalo breeding projects whilst developing alternative tourist infrastructure. This farm has a great number of large earth dams which have been professionally landscaped fitting in with the natural environment.

Top of our list. No bedrooms, no bathrooms, sleeps 400 million, perhaps the most pristine, biologically diverse and productive tract of land on the planet earth. Address: The Amazon Rain Forest , Brazil.

At 1.2 million acres, it’s like having your own country. Humanitarian and development potential limited only by your budget and your imagination. What a sales pitch. The price includes, but is not limited to:

• Timber
• Minerals – tin, iron, nickel, gold, silver and bauxite
• Oil, Natural gas: This property is known to contain natural gas and oil
• Brazil nuts, bananas, cashew nuts, papayas (edible fruits).
• Biomass – Pharmaceuticals – Medical drugs and cosmetic essences
• Latex
• Fish

According to the agent, these details are correct:

• 482,592.0221 hectares (+or-) (1,158,220.80 acres) of tropical rain forest
• One of the very few million acre + properties in the world
• Pristine virgin timberland. None of it has ever been commercially logged
• Extensive land and timber survey completed
• Timber appraised at $1 Billion+
• Timber survey and all details available upon completion of non disclosure agreement with the seller
• Absolute clear title
• 12 alluvial gold deposits on the property
• Gemstones
• 350 km to one of the largest gas reserves found in South America. 78 km from natural gas wellhead (and pipeline)
• Taxes current and paid on the property
• 100% accessible year round
• Navigable channel through or adjoining the property to transport supplies and timber
• Approved for selective logging
• Clearance for mahogany logging on this property (one of the few properties in Brazil with this clearance)
• Title work on the property is “ready to go” and cleared for immediate sale
• Management team in Brazil that would like to stay with the property, at buyers request
• Legal representation in place
• Virgin timberland
• Airplane landing strip
• 2,800,000 rubber trees (Heavea Trees) for producing latex rubber. Latex trees approx 12 years old, never tapped,
• prime and ready for production
• Brazil nut trees in excess of 300,000
• Latex management team can stay with the property
• Can guarantee title and make sure the transfer of the property is absolute and prompt
• Business plan approved by IBAMA and INTEPA
• One of the few one million plus acre properties in the world. Ideal for ecological development and management.
• Have Brazilian company already set up that owns this property, so could save the buyer much expense and time in making sure that the ownership would meet the approval of the Brazilian government, especially with the expertise of the present attorneys for the project.
• Additional tracts available for total of 2.7 million acres

Interested parties can contact Viviun International. We have no idea how much this will go for, it’s way out of our reach, but still find it scary that it’s actually for sale.

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Links and Photo Credits:

• Bran (Dracula’s) castle
• The agent’s site is here
• Virginia lighthouses for sale
• The government website has moved here
• Straw Bale House for sale
• Solar Haven’s website
• The Water Tower
• Unusual British Properties
• Missile Silos for sale
• Gary has a website here, called appropriately enough, siloworld.com
• Kruger National Park Game Farm
• This company sells only game farms
• The Rain Forest, Brazil
• Viviun International’s website
• Top Ten Property Investment Hotspots 2008
• Another interesting look at the real estate investment market