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Pete Nelson Takes a look at some of the best tree houses that he has come across

Just one day of Christmas cheer isn’t enough for a real-life Santa and Mrs. Claus, who celebrate the season 365 days a year in Southern California. Old St. Nick and the missus call on Pete and his crew to spruce up their yard with some holiday magic. Pete creates a treehouse workshop complete with Santa's red chair, a naughty-or-nice drawbridge, a secret elf trap door, a candy cane and holly access bridge and some miracle Christmas snow...in the California desert!

Treehouse expert and visionary Pete Nelson explores the evolution of treehouses through delving into the many shapes and vast variety of functions they've served throughout the years. “Ultimate Treehouses 2” features a Papua, New Guinea, high-in-the-sky tribal treehouse built by hand, the world’s oldest backyard treehouse (more than 200 years old), a luxury treehouse gem in New York and a re-purposed airplane fuselage in Costa Rica. The special also spotlights fully suspended biospheres in the wild skies of British Columbia. Follow Pete’s jaw-dropping journey into the past, present and future of treehouse design.

Truly a worldwide phenomenon, treehouses extend to even the farthest corners of our world. Pete travels to Japan to tour with the country’s most beloved, renowned treehouse builder: Takashi Kobayashi. Longtime friend of Pete’s and truly an inspiration to treehouse builders everywhere, Taka takes his American buddy on a whirlwind tour of his greatest creations, including a treehouse bar in the middle of Tokyo, a luxurious spa retreat in the countryside and a touching treetop tribute to children affected by the devastating 2011 tsunami. All the while, Pete experiences the wonders of Japan’s wilds, the quirky excitement of Tokyo, and shares with us traditional Japanese experiences.

A 500 square-foot ski lodge treehouse with a stainless steel candy kitchen and wine bar, 11 feet in the air and among 14 camphor trees is the gift Santa Pete wants to give the candy and wine making Splinter family of Northern California.

Join Pete on an adventure in Germany with two renowned treehouse builders - Christopher Richter, a former student, and Andreas Wenning, one of the world's most celebrated treehouse architects - as they tour Deutschland and every treehouse they can find!

Join Pete for a spectacular state-side treehouse tour as he visits some of the best treehouses in the USA with fellow treehouse builders, David Geisen, Attie Jonker, and Roderick Romero.

On this special episode Pete and the NTS crew build the “Ultimate Treehouse” for the lucky winner of the Ultimate Treehouse Giveaway.

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Meeting up with South American treehouse impresario Ricardo Brunelli in the heart of Brazil; treehouse travels from the city of Sao Paulo to the farmlands of Parana.

Join Pete Nelson on a journey to explore ingenious treehouse designs and engineering feats of builders the world over. At the end of his adventure, Pete embarks on his very own epic treehouse engineering repair.

Pete looks back on the time he and his team headed out to Maine to build a floating suite with a rooftop crow's nest.

Pete looks back on the time he and his crew went to Louisiana to build their biggest treehouse ever.

Pete and his crew are tasked with building a nature center, 14 feet off the ground at 10,000-acre nature preserve, Dogwood Canyon in Lampe, Missouri, established by Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris, for the company's upcoming Christmas party.

Henry and Pete look back at the tallest treehouse they've ever built in a giant redwood.

Pete and Chuck remember the high tech recording studio oasis up in the trees with a visit from CeeLo Green.

Pete and Patrick remember back to the insane treehouse move for Pete's daughter and Patrick's girlfriend; Emily's housewarming gift.

Pete explores tree houses worldwide that tap into one's inner spirits; a manta-ray-shaped tree house within a Thai jungle; a spirit-soothing retreat hidden in Australia's wilderness.

Pete explores tree houses worldwide that tap into one's inner spirits; a manta-ray-shaped tree house within a Thai jungle; a spirit-soothing retreat hidden in Australia's wilderness.

Pete and his crew trek to the Blue Ridge Mountains to build a tree house for one of their own, carpenter Mike Reynolds; sitting 16 feet high, it makes the perfect rustic guesthouse to host the raucous Appalachian Breaking Up Christmas tradition.

Pete journeys to the pine-forested splendor of Scandinavia to explore Norway's magical TreeTop Hotel and Sweden's floating Treehotel, with tree homes suspended by cables and accessed only by retractable ladders.