M.C. Escher Meets Salvador Dali In This Mendota Heights 'Wow!' House

MENDOTA HEIGHTS, MN — This recently listed house in Mendota Heights is an M.C. Escher print come to life. Stairways crisscross stairways, platforms overlap each other and vaulted ceilings soar to absurd heights. Right from the get-go, there is the sense that some of the more important laws of physics are being violated.

The centrally located kitchen has no ceiling. A lofted room is accessible by a ladder that seems to be made of driftwood. The gigantic brick fireplace in the main living room rises all the way to the rafters. An isolated light fixture hanging over a catwalk looks like a melted dumbbell. Perhaps Salvador Dali had something to do with this house as well.

When viewed from above, the house seems to have been sawed in half and then shifted ten feet, so that you have two large half-houses grafted together. The diagonal wood theme lends the patina of age, but the vinyl siding on the exterior is relatively new.

From most angles the design is uniquely angular. If you walk around to the back where the double garage is, you'd think you were standing by a loading dock in an industrial park. Turn around and you're greeted by 0.93 acres full of wild woodland, complete with a winding wood fence leading down a hill.

The house has three bedrooms and just 1.5 bathrooms over 2,312 square feet of floor area. It's perfect for parties, families with multiple pets, or suspending climbing ropes and opening a gorilla exhibit. Up to you.

• Address: 2376 Pagel Rd, Mendota Heights, Minnesota
• Price: $375,000
• Square Feet: 2312
• Bedrooms: 3
• Bathrooms: 1 Full and 1 Half Baths
• Built: 1974

What do you think? Is this your bag? Or would you rather live in something where the kitchen has a ceiling?

Did you see a house in Mendota Heights that made you say wow? Where? Tell us about it in the comments!

This listing originally appeared on realtor.com. For more information and photos, click here.