List of bizarre buildings
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Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval — the ideal palace conceived and built by a French postman after he found an oddly shaped stone.
This is a list of bizarre buildings — buildings which are considered bizarre, odd, strange or weird. These may be follies, novelties or white elephants.
List
- Bishop Castle - a family construction project situated in the Wet Mountains of Southern Colorado in the San Isabel National Forest, named after its constructor, Jim Bishop
- Capela dos Ossos (English: Chapel of Bones) - a small interior chapel in Évora, Portugal, interior walls decorated with human skulls and bones.
- Buddha Park, also known as Xieng Khuan - a sculpture park located 25 km southeast from Vientiane, Laos in a meadow by the Mekong River.
- Coral Castle - stone structure created by the Latvian American eccentric Edward Leedskalnin north of the city of Homestead, Florida.
- Dai Heiwa Kinen Tō (大平和祈念塔?, lit. The Great Peace Prayer Tower) - a cenotaph tower in Tondabayashi, Osaka, Japan.
- Dalí Theatre and Museum - a museum of the artist Salvador Dalí in his home town of Figueres, in Catalonia, Spain.
- Dr. Evermor's Forevertron - the largest scrap metal sculpture in the world in the town of Sumpter, in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States.
- Gardens by the Bay (Chinese: 滨海湾花园; Bīnhǎiwān Huāyuán) - a park of reclaimed land in central Singapore.
- Gardens of Bomarzo - a Manieristic monumental complex located in Bomarzo, in the province of Viterbo, in northern Lazio, Italy.
- Giardino dei Tarocchi (Italian: Garden of Tarot) - a sculpture garden based on the esoteric tarot created by the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle in Pescia Fiorentina, località Garavicchio, province of Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy.
- Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village - a folk art piece, located in Simi Valley, California.
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- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao — designed by Frank Gehry, the walls of this acclaimed building undulate in random curves.[1][2]
- Hằng Nga Guesthouse — the "crazy house" designed by Đặng Việt Nga, this has the fairy tale appearance of a tree with mushrooms, spiders' webs and other organic features.[3]
- Horace Burgess's Treehouse — claimed to be the world's largest, this rambling treehouse was built over the years by a Tennessee minister.[4]
- House on the Rock — a complex of architecturally unique rooms, streets, gardens, and shops designed by Alex Jordan, Jr. It is also home to the world's largest indoor carousel.[5]
- Hundertwasserhaus - an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, built after the idea and concept of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
- KunstHausWien - a museum in Vienna, designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
- Matrimandir (Sanskrit for Temple of The Mother) - an edifice of spiritual significance for practitioners of Integral yoga, situated at the centre of Auroville initiated by The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
- Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval — the ideal palace created by French postman Ferdinand Cheval.[6]
- Park Güell - a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of El Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí.
- Porcelain House (Chinese: 瓷房子) - a contemporary museum of pottery and antiques in Tianjin, China.
- Rock Garden of Chandigarh - a Sculpture garden in Chandigarh, India.
- Rubel Castle - in Glendora, California, by Michael Clarke Rubel, constructed partly out of concrete but also out of scrap steel, rocks, bedsprings, coat hangers, bottles, and other pieces of junk.
- Sagrada Família (English: Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family) - a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí.
- Temple of All Religions (Russian: Храм всех религий) - an architectural complex in the Staroye Arakchino Microdistrict of Kazan, Russia.
- Waldspirale (German: forest spiral) - a residential building complex in Darmstadt, Germany, designed by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
- Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew (Thai: วัดป่ามหาเจดีย์แก้ว, The Million Bottle Temple) - a Buddhist temple in Khun Han district of Sisaket province, Thailand, made of over 1 million empty discarded beer bottles.
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- Watts Towers in the Watts community of Los Angeles, Southern California - a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural structures, the tallest reaching a height of over 99 feet (30 m).
See also
References
- ↑ Paul Cattermole, Ian Westwell (2007), Bizarre Buildings, p. 199, ISBN 9781554073085
- ↑ Michael Sandler (2011), Freaky-Strange Buildings, p. 20, ISBN 9781617723056
- ↑ Michael Sandler (2011), Freaky-Strange Buildings, p. 4, ISBN 9781617723056
- ↑ Kristin Luna (2010), Tennessee Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, p. 223, ISBN 9780762767410
- ↑ https://www.thehouseontherock.com/HOTR_Contact_History.htm
- ↑ Paul Cattermole, Ian Westwell (2007), Bizarre Buildings, p. 21, ISBN 9781554073085
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