A new Taschen book spotlights 62 architect-designed tree houses—from floating globes and steel cubes to net terraces and modular cells. Here are eight standouts from around the world. Tree houses ...

Have your head in the clouds? These fantastical structures are just the place to visit. Ever wanted to be an astronaut without suffering zero-g motion sickness? Book this “room” at the Treehotel, ...

When life gets messy, it’s easy to daydream about leaving your typical day-to-day and escaping to a place in the woods where you can leave your troubles behind. Treehouses can offer a wonderful escape ...

Carpenter Joel “Bubba” Smith builds tree houses for a living. But these are not the rickety, slapped-together, sticks-nailed-slipshod-to-the- tree-in-the-backyard tree houses of childhood memory. As a ...

Elevated high above the ground, tree houses are familiar symbols of childhood magic and adventure. Architect Peter Eising remembers how they captured his imagination as a child. He would scavenge for ...

John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi should get together and build a tree house. So should Elton John and Madonna, Jean Quan and the Oakland Police Department, and everyone who has ever appeared on a "Real ...

When Jeff and Millie Baird bought a rugged 165-acre property in California’s Sonoma County in 2010, their goal was to spend more family time outdoors. So the first thing they built was a tree house: a ...

There is just something about a tree house isn't there. They start with the tree of course. They take us back to our fond childhood days of climbing trees, an activity that meant close contact with ...

The "whimsical treehouse escape" offers a outdoor soaking tub, fire pit and forest views.

The drive to Treehouse Point, half an hour east of Seattle, takes you through a forest fit for hobbits, crowded full of fir, spruce, cedar, maple and hemlock. Alongside the Raging River — yes, that’s ...