Architectural Oddities

Hotel designed by indie graphics artists.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Historic Greenpoint theater, turned roller disco, now housing a chain pharmacy store.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.