1 Man, 10 Stories, 100 Feet: Tallest Treehouse in the World

1 Man, 10 Stories, 100 Feet: Tallest Treehouse in the World

It looks downright dangerous … yet its creator claims it is divinely inspired by a vision he received in which he was told to begin

building

 a tree house for which he would never run out of materials. 15 years, 10,000 square feet and 250,000 nails and a lot of scrap wood later, this amazing structure towers up over the very trees that support it.

Known as the Minister’s Treehouse (out of deference to creator Horace Burgess, de facto pastor of the forest) trange features of this phenomenal structure include: a third-floor basketball-court-and-sanctuary 

combination

, a half-ton chime at the very top of the buildingon top of a penthouse suite Burgess built for his wife as an anniversary present.

The structure itself seems to fluctuate between highly organized, regular and planned to completely haphazard, chaotic and unstable. Perhaps as weird and wonderful as anything else this unique buildinghas to offer: essentially the entire tree house is open to the public, provided they obey simple no-smoking rules and respect the structure of course (additional images via Baking with Medusa)

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