Have you ever wanted to stay in a floating house? Airbnb has the place for you
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A new category of listings is called "Icons." Homes include the house from the Pixar movie Up — complete with 8,000 balloons attached to the top. It's held up by a crane over the N.M. desert.
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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Good morning. I'm Michel Martin. Have you ever wanted to stay in a floating house, but just didn't have enough balloons? Well, Airbnb has just the place for you. The company announced a new category of listings called Icons. They include Prince's Minneapolis house from "Purple Rain" and one that looks like the house from the Pixar movie "Up," complete with 8,000 balloons attached to the top. Sorry to say, the house doesn't really float. It's held up by a crane over the New Mexico Desert.
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