Architectural Oddities
Possibly our broadest category, it includes among other things: Eccentric and unusual homes, mazes, bizarre ruins, amazing outsider architecture and other strange buildings built by non-architects, the architectural follies of Princes and millionaires, gorgeous and unusual libraries, building and bridges grown from living trees, secret passageways, secret lairs, caves, caverns and buried treasure hordes.
Basically any building, structure, house, church, tunnel, that stops you in your tracks because it is unusual looking, has a bizarre back story, or curious method of creation belongs in architectural oddities. From ancient and mysterious ruins in South America to a Buddhist temple made of beer bottles, to a beautiful solar tower in Spain they all fall under the category of architectural oddities.
Bloomingdale Trail
Urban hiking on abandoned railway in the centre of Chicago.
Bory Castle
Hungarian self-built castle
Michael Faraday Memorial
Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer
Europe's Oddest Architect
Friedensreich Hundertwasser's eccentric structures delight visitors in Austria, Germany and New Zealand.
Fox Hotel in Copenhagen
Hotel designed by indie graphics artists
Ed Leedskalnin's Coral Castle
A mysterious and impresive castle built as a monument to lost love
Gasometer Town
Gasometer Town - repurposed natural gas tanks
Pasaquan: Home of St. EOM
The artistic creation of the strange and mysterious St. EOM, a.k.a. Eddie Owens Martin
Leaning Tower of Niles
Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo
Tiffany Glass Mural "The Dream Garden"
Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US
