Pippi Longstocking aka Carmen Sandiego

I was pawing through Google Earth hacks, which is something I do sometimes, when I came across one for Villa Villekulla, on an island in the south of Sweden.

You will recall, of course, that Villa Villekulla is the name Pippi Longstocking gave to her house, where she lived with her monkey, Mr. Nillsen, and kept her horse, Little Old Man, on the front porch. Astrid Lindgren wrote the first Pippi book in 1945, with illustrations that portrayed the house as follows:

The Google Earth hack appears to claim as the "real" Villa Villekulla a house in Gotland built for a 1969 movie version of Pippi's adventures:

Some tourist website and numerous blogs, all in Swedish, refer to a different  but quite similar-looking house as Villa Villekulla, located in the village of Kneippbyn:

Also in the islands of southern Sweden is an Astrid Lindgren theme park, with its own version of Villa Villekulla, and a summer theater with a stage set of the house for outdoor performances:

  

On Amelia Island, Florida, is a house used for a recent Pippi Longstocking TV series:

And then there's the Lego version, as shown on a Dutch website:

  

Of course there's also a Sim Villa Villekula, with a virtual tour on a website selling a line of high-styled Scandinavian fashion:

The best YouTube Villa Villekulla is a tour of a diorama, perhaps built as a dollhouse?:

Just goes to show, don't believe everything you see in Google Earth.

I've been to a house in New Hampshire that Hili Thomson named Villa Villekula. There was no horse on the porch, but two goats in the kitchen.