List of bizarre buildings
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
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao — designed by Frank Gehry, the walls of this acclaimed building undulate in random curves.
- 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.
- Horace Burgess's Treehouse — claimed to be the world's largest, this rambling treehouse was built over the years by a Tennessee minister.
- 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.
- 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
- 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).