66 Real Buildings Look So Impossible, People Keep Wondering If Someone Created Them In Photoshop

I’m kind of a nerd and the son of an architect, so when I travel around the world, one of the first things that calls my attention is the architecture. If you add good food and awesome nature, you get yourself the perfect trip.

Some architects design buildings with surprising shapes, sharp angles, unusual proportions, and styles that ignore the usual rules. Seeing them in person is an experience. From some angles, these buildings might even remind you of digital art or a video game scene.

From futuristic towers to quirky houses and buildings that play tricks on your eyes, these examples prove that reality can be stranger than fiction. We’ve gathered some of the world’s most unusual buildings, and you might have to look twice to believe they’re real.

#1 Kansas City Library. A Library Which Looks Like A Bookshelf

#2 Building Made Without Cutting Down 326 Year Old Tree

#3 Thorncrown Chapel, Arkansas

#4 Just A Music School In China

#5 Teapot Dome Service Station, Zillah Wa

#6 Itap Of The Delhi Lotus Temple At The Perfect Time

#7 Eco Building In Singapore

#8 Tianzi Hotel, China

#9 The Dorilton, A 1900 Beaux Arts Residential Building Designed By The Firm Janes & Leo On The Upper West Side Of Manhattan, New York City

#10 The House Of Bones/Casa Dels Ossos (Casa Battlo 7)

#11 Of A Stone House

#12 Inntel Hotels Amsterdam Centre, Netherlands

#13 This Airbnb I Stayed At In Mexico Was Shaped Like Two Seashells!

#14 Heydar Aliyev Centre, Baku Azerbaijan – Zaha Hadid Architects

#15 Kindergarten Wolfartsweier In Karlsruhe, Germany Is A School In The Shape Of A Cat To Encourage Children To Go To School

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#16 Dancing House, Designed By Vlado Milunić And Frank Gehry – Prague, Czechia

#17 Bulb Houses In Den Bosch / The Netherlands

#18 Steampunk Train Home From Burning Man

#19 The Crooked House In Sopot, Poland

#20 Longaberger Basket Hq – Newark, Oh (USA)

#21 A Medieval-Style Castle Has Been Under Construction In France Since 1997, Built Entirely Using 13th-Century Techniques As Part Of An Archaeology Project. The Guéledon Castle Is Expected To Be Completed In 2030

#22 A Building Built Into The Side Of A Cliff

#23 The Norman Lykes House, Or Circular Sun House. Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright In 1959, The Last Work Of His Life. Phoenix, Arizona

#24 Cafayate, Province Of Salta, Argentina

#25 National Fisheries Development Board (Nfdb) Building – Hyderabad, India

#26 This Building Looks Like It Was Built In Minecraft!

#27 Banyan Treehouse: A Restaurant In Okinawa, Japan

#28 Weirdest Structure I’ve Seen So Far

#29 This Is Known As The Dr. Seuss House Here In Alaska. But I Think The Weasley House Sounds More Accurate

#30 Bolgen Vejle

#31 Szymbark, Poland, First Upside Down House In Europe

#32 Crazy House, Da Lat, Vietnam 🇻🇳

#33 One Of The Most Bizarre Buildings I’ve Ever Seen, And And The Reason I Decided To Go To Art School Is This ‘Floating’ Building Above The Old Ontario College Of Art

#34 This 1000-Ton Tuned Mass Damper At The Top Of Shanghai Tower (632m) Stabilizes The Skyscraper During Earthquake And Typhoon By Counteracting The Building’s Sway

#35 Turning Torso, Malmö, Sweden 🇸🇪

#36 An Abandoned Potato Sorting Station Near Krasnosilka, Ukraine With An Unusual, Cantilevered Design. The Concrete Block At The End Forms The Counterweight Of The Structure, Creating The Impression It Floats Over The Fields

#37 Cube Houses In Rotterdam

#38 The “Tondo” Footbridge (Brussels, Belgium). Designed For Accessibility And Security, This Mirrored Ring Connects Old And New Parliamentary Buildings

#39 Dog Bark Park, Cottonwood, Idaho

#40 Under Restaurant

#41 The King Power Mahanakhon In Bangkok Is Recognized As One Of Thailand’s Tallest Buildings

#42 Big Duck 2018

#43 Brussels, Belgium: Atomium, ‘Europe’s Most Bizarre Building’, Built For The Brussels World’s Fair 1958 (Expo 58), André Waterkeyn, André And Jean Polak