Categories > Architectural Oddities
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.
Eram Garden
Named after a legendary garden called Eram in southern Arabia, built by order of Shaddad, an Arab king, to compete with Paradise.
Lummis Castle el Alisal
Eccentric journalist builds himself a castle stone by stone
Nautilus House
Fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture
Stork Nest Farm
Czech architects borrow from the nest design of the stork to revitalize a farmstead, hoping to inspire the same loyalty the birds had shown.
Temagami Fire Tower
Stunning views over Ontario's old-growth pine forests
Dungeness Ruins
Ruins of the Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island
A Panorama View of New York City
A 9,335 square foot architectural model of the entire New York City
Kaiping Dialous
Massive fortified towers blend North American and Chinese architecture
Maho Beach
Airplanes land over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers
Ajanta Caves
Rock-cut cave complex filled with ancient Buddhist artwork

