But wait… there’s more! According to Sotheby’s International Realty, the approximately 37 acre retreat in Southern France includes:

…an entire ‘hameau’, a private, small Provençal village comprising more than a dozen buildings, including a main house, several guest cottages, a bar & restaurant, a workshop/garage, a staff house and much more.

While the listing says there’s a chapel, this site says it’s been converted into guest quarters. Hopefully, that could explain the presence of a bed, a bathtub, and… a confessional(?!) in the same room. “Paging Dr. Freud!”

Whatevs! What’s totally cool is that Johnny himself ~swoon~ decorated all the buildings in the whole village, which explains this awesome room, including the Alas-Poor-Yorick prop(?) on the side table.

But the BEST EVER part? OMG I can’t believe it… some of Johnny’s personal belongings are INCLUDED IN THE SALE!!!

~THUD~ (Faint…)

The sprawling 2,698 acre estate is now officially known as “Sycamore Valley Ranch” and the actual listing doesn’t even mention Michael Jackson, nor give any clues to the location’s previous life.

Here’s a photo from The Pinnacle List showing one of the more distinctive locations on the property:

There are many more photos to be had at the above links, and a few more generic ones on the listing itself, linked below.

As in, hope you have a whopping $25M if you like this… house.

Or has the Mother Ship just landed? It’s weird, it’s wonderful, it’s the late Bob Hope’s house in Palm Springs.

And hey! It’s on sale – big time!! That $25M price tag? That’s more than 25% less than the $34M they were asking just this past January.

*That’s* a relief… I could *never* have afforded $34M.

From the listing description:

Bold + Iconic + Legendary + Timeless = The Bob & Dolores Hope Estate. Mere words cannot describe this majestic and historical piece of architecture which was the largest private residence designed by John Lautner and commissioned by legendary Bob & Dolores Hope. The property has entertained dignitaries from all over the world and is viewed by many as one of the most iconic pieces of architecture in the world.

No idea what’s with the random turtle shot in the middle of this £2.75 ($4.36) million listing.

This UK manse was apparently owned by British star Kate Bush from 1985 to 2003, and is named after her debut single.

Yup, this is where he and Priscilla spent their honeymoon in ’66 and it’s still chock full of Elvis memorabilia.

It also has a strange blend of decor…

…some well suited to the architectural style…

…and some that really, really isn’t.

Is that what the listing meant by “art deco design & furnishings”? ‘Cause it’s not, not in the above shot, and not anywhere else either.

Hint for listing agents – if you’re gonna mention a named style, know what you’re talking about.

Itching to grab a complete Dracula collection? This swanky LA pad was once owned by Count Dracula himself.

Of course I’m referring to Bela Lugosi, who portrayed Dracula in the 1931 film of the same name.

The Dracula art in the staging is certainly a nice touch.

This home sold last July for $2.6 million. It was listed again this March for $4.2 million, then re-listed on Wednesday (June 25th) with a new low price of just $4,067,000. Still quite a bit cheaper than the $80 million asking price for Dracula’s Castle in Romania.

No word on whether the disembodied arm on the dining room table conveys.

No idea what’s going on staging-wise in this room. We’ve got a deer-leg table, a fairly modern-looking iron cube ceiling lamp, and some kind of crazy tentacled metal standing lamp. With a traditional Persian rug.

The bathroom without any mirror is a nice touch, though.

My French chateau of rough hewn stone can meet and beat your white wood Grand Hotel wannabe anyday!

I’ll see your indoor tennis court and pool and raise you an indoor regulation half basketball court…

private putting green…

*and* a gold leaf ceilinged concert stage

Keeping up with the Joneses? Amateur time compared to this.

Want to buy Ron Howard’s house?

Just $27.5 million dollars…

Here’s some more color from CNN:

The Howards lived in the house built for them for 20 years, but no longer need such a large house.

“Our children are grown, so it’s time to move on, but the memories of this very special place will never leave us,” said Howard.

Because every family needs 17,000 square feet to raise 4 kids…

Other rooms include a yoga studio, an au-pair suite and a 14-seat theater…

And a stable, and a lake, and formal garden with a stone head house (whatever that is), and an indoor pool, and an indoor tennis court, and a fully paneled library, and an indoor harbor, as seen in the formal dining room mural, and indoor stargazing in the private observatory, and 30+ acres with riding trails.

Really, it’s a wonder they had room for those kids…

Hey wait a minute, that’s not a house.

What kind of home has its own airport?!?

Wayne Newton’s house, it turns out. From an October Forbes article:

Known as ‘Casa de Shenandoah’, 6629 S. Pecos Road hit the market in September for a whopping $70 million, but has seen its asking price slashed by more than 30 percent in recent days. Wayne Newton’s former 36-acre Xanadu now lists for just $48 million.
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The famed performer and his family resided at the ranch from the 1960’s up until 2010, when, amid bankruptcy, Newton sold the property to a development company for $19.5 million. Newton retained a 20 percent stake in the company, CSD LLC, which aspired to convert the majority of the outlandish property into a theme park. However, after a combination of lawsuits, money disputes and poor planning, the development company went belly up and the home was put up for sale.

Despite its fate, the home remains the stuff of real estate legends and an embodiment of one of Las Vegas’ greatest showman.

Pretty sure that parrot cage is bigger than my bedroom.

Do the bleachers overlooking the pool strike anyone else as… odd? I mean, not like there aren’t plenty of other odd things about this $48 million listing…

You would be forgiven for wondering why a dated, dingy, run-down, nondescript home in Aberdeen, WA…

…with a totally half-assed set of photos (I mean really—is it that hard to focus a camera?) would sport an asking price of half a million dollars.

Especially when similar homes nearby have recently sold for under $25,000.

Apparently the seller thinks that the fact that this home was one of “about 20 houses” lived in by Kurt Cobain somehow increases its value 20-fold.

Good luck with that.