For a holiday that’s out of this world book a stay at the Airbnb in the Californian desert that’s shaped like a flying saucer
The pod home is located near Joshua Tree and is the only ‘Futuro House’ in America you can stay the night in
It used to be stationed at the Playboy Club Hotel in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and has also been a realty office
The Airbnb listing for the pod, which is called Area 55, describes it as an off-grid glamping experience
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Unless you know something we don’t, your chances of coming across an actual alien spacecraft in the middle of the desert are pretty slim. But thanks to Airbnb, you can at least pretend to.
The Area 55 Futuro house is a 520-square-foot red ellipsoid located in the middle of California’s Joshua Tree National Park. Though it’s not the only one of its kind, it’s the only one in the U.S. that you can rent for a few nights’ stay. According to Thrillist, Futuro houses were conceived and constructed by a Finnish architect named Matti Suuronen in 1968, when the world was captivated by the space race and futuristic architecture was all the rage. Suuronen originally intended his innovation to function as a skiers’ hut that could easily sit on a mountain and avoid snow pileup on its round roof. While one Futuro house in Dombay, Russia, is occupied by visiting skiers to this day, the other 80 or so are scattered in random locations and used for random purposes (or no purpose