A woman shared what it's like living in a home that's only accessible by tram in Austin, Texas, with a spiral staircase and shell-shaped balcony

• The Tram House, which overlooks Austin's Lake Travis, can only be reached using a tram.
• The unique property is on a steep hillside so it's difficult to access on foot.

TikToker Courtney Johnson recently went viral for documenting her unique Austin, Texas, home that's only accessible by tram.

A TikTok Johnson posted in June, with over 7.2 million views as of Monday, is captioned: "POV: you randomly decided to buy a house that's only accessible by tram," and shows Johnson inside the tram going up to the entrance of the home. The property is exactly "210 feet up the 55-degree hillside," Johnson told Insider.

Johnson has had her eye on this iconic Austin house, which was built between the late 90s and early 2000s, since she was 14 years old, she said. "I knew I had to live there one day," she told Insider.

In this case, when the opportunity to purchase the property finally came up, she couldn't say no. Johnson told Insider she purchased the property in March.

The Tram House, which overlooks Austin's Lake Travis, can only be reached using the tram, though Johnson told Insider it is yet to break down.

"It gets serviced twice a year. It stops working when the electricity goes out (or when I forget my tram key!) You CAN climb up the hill on foot, but it's extremely steep and quite dangerous. I've done it before. But it's not fun," she said.

The home has a range of other unique aspects, from artistically arranged skylights over the round staircase to a shell-shaped balcony and swirled roof design adding character to the exterior of the house, as Johnson showed in a house tour TikTok in July that has over 17,000 views.

"Doordash: I'm sorry I have to do what?" one person commented on her original viral video, to which the creator responded with a TikTok showing that deliveries are also usually sent up in the tram.

Johnson told Insider that the property was designed by a famous Texas architect, Ray Brown.

"His goal was to make visitors feel like they were inside of a fish bowl," Johnson said. "There are tales of crazy events and parties and funky folklore of Austin's craziest hippies, celebrities, tech billionaires, and politicians."

"My partner already lived in the neighborhood so we would always walk past the house together," she told Insider.

"The 'for sale' sign went up and down for about a year as the house went on and off the market," Johnson said, adding that the previous owners were having difficulty selling the unique property.

"No one was crazy enough to buy a house with a tram. But I was," she said.