Hobbits, Star Trek, Star Wars, spaceships, Lego--you can't keep obsessed geeks from building their dream homes.
By Sarah Jacobsson
You're not a true geek until you eat, breathe, and live your geeky obsession--the key word here being live.
How do you display your geekiness at home? Do you have a poster? A few figurines? Perhaps even Space Invaders wall decals?
Well, a few people out there have gone a step further in expressing themselves: They've transformed their homes into übergeek havens, sometimes at great personal expense.
Here are some of the geekiest homes and apartments we could find, from a low-impact Hobbit house to a 3.3-million-brick Lego house to a Star Trek apartment.
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