There are 805 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
Székesfehérvár, Hungary

Bory Castle

Hungarian self-built castle
12 Mar 2010
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
Cornville, Arizona

Eliphante

Outsider Art Community
21 Nov 2008
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
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
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