Island in the sun

Would you care to wager how much longer this lonely house can withstand the forces of development going on around it?


This is in Chongqing, China where this lonely house, precariously placed on top of a 10-metre drop all around it, has earned the name of "coolest nail house". It's called a nail house because nothing - or no one - seems able to uproot it.

The saga began three years ago when the owners of this house began battling a property developer that wanted to develop a piece of land into a shopping centre. But while the other homeowners accepted a compensation and then moved out, this house's owners refused to budge and tried to ask for more.

But the owners got more than they bargained for when the property developer began digging into the ground all around this little house and left it standing all by itself.

Just like an island in an ocean. All cut off from the rest of the world.