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      There are some pretty strange buildings in our world! Above is The National Library in Minsk, Belarus. Here for your viewing pleasure is a collection of some of the World's Strangest Buildings! Enjoy! :)
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The Crooked House in Sopot, Poland.

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Forest Spiral - Hundertwasser Building in Darmstadt, Germany: The structure with 105 apartments wraps around a landscaped courtyard with a running stream. Up in the turret at the southeast corner, there is a restaurant, with a cocktail bar.

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The Torre Galatea Figueres in Spain.

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Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace in France.

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The Basket Building in Newark, Ohio, United States:
The Longaberger Basket Company building might just be the strangest office building in the world. The 180,000-square-foot building, is a replica of the company's famous market basket, cost $30 million and took 2 years to complete. Many tried to persuade Dave Longaberger to alter his plans, but he wanted an exact replica of the real thing.

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Kansas City Public Library in Missouri, United States: People of Kansas City were asked to help pick highly influential books that represent Kansas City. Those titles were included as 'bookbindings' in the design of the parking garage exterior, to inspire people to utilize the downtown Central Library.

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Wonderworks in Pigeon Forge, TN, United States.

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Habitat 67 in Montreal, Canada:
The cube is the base, the mean and the finality of Habitat 67. In its material sense, the cube is a symbol of stability. As for its mystic meaning, the cube is symbol of wisdom, truth, moral perfection, at the origin itself of our civilization.

354 cubes of a magnificent grey-beige build up one on the other to form 146 residences nestled between sky and earth, between city and river, between greenery and light.

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Cubic Houses In Rotterdam, Netherlands:
The city of Rotterdam asked Piet Blom to design housing on top of a pedestrian bridge and he decided to use the cubic houses idea. The concept behind these houses is that he tries to create a forest by each cube representing an abstract tree; therefore the whole village becomes a forest.

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Hang Nga Guesthouse a.k.a Crazy House in Vietnam:
The house is owned by the daughter of the ex-president of Vietnam, who studied architecture in Moscow. It does not comply with any convention about house building, has unexpected twists and turns, roofs and rooms. It looks like a fairy tale castle and it has enormous 'animals' like a giraffe and a spider. No window is rectangular or round.



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The UFO House in Sanjhih, Taiwan.

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Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, Japan.

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Erwin Wurm: House Attack in Viena, Austria.

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Wooden Gagster House in Archangelsk, Russia.

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Ripley's Building in Ontario, Canada.

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Grand Lisboa in Macao.

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Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.

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Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado, United States.

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Fashion Show Mall in Las Vegas, United States.


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