Fire Lookouts into Homes?

10. Fire Towers

Fire towers once manned to watch for forest fires have found new life as weekend mountain retreats.  Already built to withstand wind, rain and snow it takes very little to convert a fire tower into a place to getaway form it all.  The rugged tall structures that look out at the valleys below give a newly converted home the feeling of an open tree house.  source 
By turning these unexpected buildings into homes architects and creative homeowners have saved old historic buildings from decay, given new life to beautiful boats,  and found unique uses for retired airplanes and grain silos.  If you could choose to live in something unexpected, what would it be?
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Unusual structures turned into homes

This looks a lot like my old Fire Lookout that I worked at in the mid 1980s except below the walkway mine was wrapped in Aluminum siding and had a garage on the ground floor for my 4 wheel drive. In the Spring I could see across the Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Valley a hundred miles of white capped peaks of the Sierras which was quite a site then in the 1980s. I did this 6 months a year as a seasonal job, usually from Spring to Fall during Fire Season. The 6 months off in 1985 I paid a relative to run my wife's and my business and we took our kids (then 10 to 14) and flew to Japan, Thailand, India and Nepal for 4 months. That was an amazing experience!