Architectural Oddities

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Take a cruise with no movement but plenty of style in this one-of-a-kind boat mall.

This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.