Photos: Germany’s upside-down house

I once went to a party in college where the hosts had hung their furniture upside-down from the ceiling. But this takes the cake: Sean Gallup/Getty Images The house, in the town of Trassenheide on Germany’s Baltic Sea island of Usedom, is appropriately named “The World Stands on its Head.” It opens today as a ...

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I once went to a party in college where the hosts had hung their furniture upside-down from the ceiling. But this takes the cake:

I once went to a party in college where the hosts had hung their furniture upside-down from the ceiling. But this takes the cake:

Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The house, in the town of Trassenheide on Germany’s Baltic Sea island of Usedom, is appropriately named “The World Stands on its Head.” It opens today as a tourist attraction.

Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Here’s what it looks like inside:

Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The only thing that’s right-side up? The stairs.

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