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Architectural Oddities

House in the clouds.

Thorpeness, England

House in the Clouds

Unusual British home built to disguise a water tower.

Merenid Tombs

Crumbling necropolis set high above Fez.

Cobham, England

Painshill Park Follies

Amazing collection of folly buildings in Cobham, Surrey.

Edmonton, Alberta

Al Rashid Mosque

First mosque in Canada, second in North America.

Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

Ohio State Reformatory.

Mansfield, Ohio

Ohio State Reformatory

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

Outside the Great Ormond Street Hospital.

London, England

Great Ormond Street Hospital

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

Permanently Closed

Longaberger Basket Building

An office built to look like a giant basket.

Detroit, Michigan

Vanity Ballroom

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

Krzywy Domek - Crooked House

This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.

Tallinn, Estonia

Haunted Guest House

Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.

Detroit, Michigan

The Russell Industrial Center

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

Church on the Blood.

Yekaterinburg, Russia

The Church on the Blood

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

Brighton, England

Madeira Lift

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

Broken section of the bell.

Tsar Bell

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

GAR Building.

Detroit, Michigan

Grand Army of the Republic Building

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

In the courtyard.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

El Zanjón de Granados

Museum housed in underground tunnels that date back to Buenos Aires's earliest settlements.

Cross in the Woods in Indian River, Michigan (United States).

Indian River, Michigan

The Cross in the Woods Shrine

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.