Architectural Oddities

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

A concrete plant shaped like four giant soldiers commemorates one of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic Wars.

The tunnel under the Capitol Building where Congress takes out its trash.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

This nine-story building is the oldest standing skyscraper in D.C.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

A public display of random paleontology.

A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.