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The most extreme buildings

Indira Gandhi Planetarium, Patna, India, opened in 1993, look like Saturn with a series of rings

Piano and Violin Building, Huainan City, China, built in 2007 to promote a newly-developed area, designed by some students of Hefey University of Technology with the designers of the company Huainan Fangkai Decoration Project Co

Montaña Mágica Lodge, in Huilo Huilo, a private Natural Reserve in Chile, a four-star water spewing volcano hotel with only 9 rooms

The 1,100 square feet home of Bruce Townsley, converted from an Atlas F missile silo in Texas

Toilet-Shaped House (named Haewoojae), built by Sim Jae-Duck, the chairman of the organizing committee of the Inagural General Assembly of the World Toilet Association


The two-story Dune House by William Morgan, built into the Atlantic Beach sand dunes (created by Hurricane Dora in 1964) in 1975, Florida

Shrek and Fiona Castle in Akimovka, Ukraine

Sutyagin House in Arkhangelsk, Russia


Headquarters of United Equipment Company, Turlock, California, built in 1976

This building in Perm, Russia with colorful book covers


Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri

The 10-story Office Centre 1000 in Kaunas, Lithuania with an 1926 banknote, completed in 2008

The 17-story Wat Samphran Temple, Khlong Mai, Thailand

The ship-shaped Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8 Ost in Bremerhaven, Germany

A shoe-shaped building in Hallam, Pennsylvania, built in 1948 and used as a guest house by Mahlon N. Haines, an owner of a shoe company. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms a big living room and a kitchen.

The ten-story Tianzi Hotel, Hebei Province, China, built in 2000

Nautilus House, Mexico City, Mexico, designed by Javier Senosiain (of Arquitectura Organica) in 2006

The Headquarters of Furnitureland South, the largest furniture retailer in the world

A Teapot-shaped museum in Meitan, China, the world's biggest teapot in the "hometown of green tea"

The largest maple wood basket ever: The Longaberger Company headquarters in Newark, Ohio, completed in 199

An underground home in Las Vegas, converted from a Cold War-era bunker

The 24-carat gold-plated Gold Pyramid in Wadsworth, Illinois with a 64 ft (19.5 m) tall statue of Ramses II, built built in 1977 by Jim and Linda Onan as a private residence. One of the pyramids contains a replica of King Tutankhamun's tomb and there is a pyramid-shaped garage.

The faux-mountaintop villa of a Chinese doctor on the top of a 26-story building in Beijing, China, 2013. It was built illegally in the last six years, and cost about $2.4 million

Digital Beijing Building, Beijing, China, by Studio Pei Zhu and Urbanus, 2008

A tiny villa district with 25 homes on top of a Chinese shopping center in Hengyang

National Fisheries Development Board Building, Hyderabad, India, opened in 2012

Dog Bark Inn, the biggest beagle in the world named Sweet Willy in Cottonwood, Idaho. It was built by built by Dennis J. Sullivan and Frances Conklin in 2003 and has only one suite.

Prefab Futuro Houses, made of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, designed by Matti Suuronen, produced in the 1960s and 1970s

Probably the narrowest home in the world, a 3.2 ft (1 m) wide by 32.8 ft (10 m) tall house of Helenita Queiroz Grave Minho with 3 bedrooms, a kitchen and two other rooms in Madre de Deus, Brazil


The upside-down White House, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, 1992



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