Seems that not even Osama Bin Laden was immune to the temptations of building a McMansion during the housing boom. Bin Ladens 2005 bubble-era "Palace De Me" was...like most McMansions...the largest house in the neighborhood.
From the NYTimes:
It was hardly the spartan cave in the mountains that many had envisioned as Bin Laden's hiding place. Rather, it was a mansion on the outskirts of the town's center, set on an imposing hilltop and ringed by 12-foot-high concrete walls topped with barbed wire.
The property was valued at $1 million, but it had neither a telephone nor an Internet connection. Its residents were so concerned about security that they burned their trash rather putting it on the street for collection the way their neighbors did.
American officials believed that the compound, built in 2005, was designed for the specific purpose of hiding Bin Laden.
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