Architectural Oddities

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Riding on a pair of architectural dragons, this Thailand temple holds murals full of lurid imagery.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

This quirky Korean eatery is built to resemble an equally quirky vintage camera.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

Repurposed space and ultra-modern construction collide to create this geometric wooden spectacle.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.