Chihiro recovers her parents and escapes, but nastiness lingers in the bath-house world, just as it does in the real world.

ECONOMIST: A Japanese cartoon heads for Europe

As the bath-house indicates, her guiding idea for this year's Biennial is to treat looking at art as a shared rather than a one-on-one encounter.

ECONOMIST: Contemporary art

With an open floor plan and high ceilings, the 1-bedroom, 1-bath house is a perfect summer hideaway.

FORBES: Pocket-(Sized) Listings: Homes Under 550 Square Feet for Sale

The west island holds two boathouses and the main home, a 5-bedroom, 4-bath stone house built in 1934.

FORBES: Private Islands For Sale - Luxury Digs Included

On St Pierre a three-bed, two-bath house is 180, 000 euros, while houses on Miquelon are smaller but with more land and cost about half that.

BBC: Living in: Remote islands

Three years ago, Kolthoff bought a three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath house near the San Diego base where he's stationed.

NPR: Downturn Puts Soldiers' Homes, Careers at Risk

This country-house hotel, near the beautiful city of Bath, holds one-day courses in Indian street food or the food of North or South India, taught by head chef Hrishikesh Desai.

WSJ: Travel: Runaway Success

The two-story Chinese farmhouse has black roof tiles, but it's inside the 1, 880-square-foot four bedroom, two bath house that East meets West.

WSJ: A Country House Outside Shanghai

McGeechan's latest high-profile rugby job was announced at Bath's new headquarters in the Somerset countryside at Farleigh House.

BBC: Sir Ian McGeechan joins Bath as performance director