Architectural Oddities

This pedestrian bridge in Croatia is a sleek, ship-inspired design with a fun net and social spaces.

This modern district offers a stark contrast to Bordeaux's terrace-lined squares and waterfront façades.

This little jewel of post-war religious architecture is hidden inside the Diocesan Museum, which swallowed it when it was built.

A building that looks like a giant hedgehog, in the middle of East London.

A circular two-story museum built completely by hand with 800 tons of rock.

A lush vertical garden blooming in the heart of Paris.

A home for Spain's version of the Tooth Fairy, hidden in an old gas company register.

This izakaya restaurant was designed to look like the Biblical vessel.

We're not in Kansas anymore: the Strabag headquarters has a playful upside-down addition.

A pair of whimsical homes in Texas shaped like oversized Western wear.

An elliptical glass tower that is known as the world’s first two-sided building.

Under the towering glass canopy of Google's headquarters in São Paulo's poshest neighborhood, hides a small, charming 18th-century house.

Louis Sullivan’s dark, swirling cast-iron designs envelop a popular department store in this Chicago landmark.

A Hakka walled village preserved as it was in the 19th century.

The third-largest replica of the Paris landmark, rising over the city’s skyline.

Small glass tiles offering windows into the city's layered past.