There are 809 entries of Architectural Oddities in the Atlas
Possibly our broadest category, it includes among other things: Eccentric and unusual homes, mazes, bizarre ruins, amazing outsider architecture and other strange buildings built by non-architects, the architectural follies of Princes and millionaires, gorgeous and unusual libraries, building and bridges grown from living trees, secret passageways, secret lairs, caves, caverns and buried treasure hordes. Basically any building, structure, house, church, tunnel, that stops you in your tracks because it is unusual looking, has a bizarre back story, or curious method of creation belongs in architectural oddities. From ancient and mysterious ruins in South America to a Buddhist temple made of beer bottles, to a beautiful solar tower in Spain they all fall under the category of architectural oddities.
Prague, Czech Republic
Prague Astronomical Clock
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s
16 Jul 2009
Armação dos Búzios, Brazil
The Casa De Flor
A self built castle built by a salt worker in Brazil
21 Nov 2008
Antonito, Colorado
Cano's Castle
Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane"
04 Apr 2012
Homestead, Florida
Ed Leedskalnin's Coral Castle
A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love
14 Feb 2013
Baraboo, Wisconsin
Dr. Evermore's Forevertron
"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outsider art sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin
02 Oct 2012
Spring Green, Wisconsin
House on the Rock
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections
21 May 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Mapparium
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935
Small Worlds and Model Towns, Instruments of Science, Marvelous Maps and Measures, Architectural Oddities
01 Nov 2009
Loveland, Ohio
Harry Andrews' Chateau Laroche
A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in rural Ohio
22 Jun 2010
Hauterives, France
Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval
One of the greatest outsider architecture achievements in the world
21 Nov 2008
Niland, California
Salvation Mountain
Self-built mound covered in messages of God's love
16 Aug 2010