Photos: Houston's Beer Can House

A child of the Great Depression, John Milkovisch didn't throw anything away — not even the empty cans of beer he enjoyed each afternoon with his wife. So, in the early 1970s when aluminum siding on houses was all the rage, he lugged down the cans he had stored in his attic for years, painstakingly cut open and flattened each one and began to wallpaper his home.

Read more about Houston's Beer Can House (and see a video about it) from the Associated Press on Yahoo! Homes.