In 1967, an Australian man built a house from discarded glass bottles; today, it is a mining museum

The Bottle House was built in 1967 and remains one of the distinctive landmarks in Lightning Ridge. Thousands of discarded glass bottles became the building material for an unusual house in the Australian outback in 1967. Nearly six decades later, the structure still stands in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, where it serves as a tourist attraction and a museum displaying opal-mining artefacts, vintage bottles and other historical objects. Known as the Bottle House, the building was constructed by Tex Moeckel. Its walls are made from glass bottles fixed together, while its sharply pitched, almost A-frame roof is covered with corrugated iron. Inside, the building has several small rooms and a loft.According to the official website of the New South Wales government, the Bottle House was built in 1967 and remains one of the town's distinctive landmarks. It also lists it as the Bottle House and Mining Museum, describing it as an example of unusual architecture and resourcefulness in a former mining camp.How discarded bottles became building materialThe building's walls are its most distinctive feature. Rows of glass bottles form the structure, giving it an appearance unlike a conventi...