I Work Inside A Fish - Top 10 Strangest Buildings In The World

Most of the time, buildings have a certain look to them. Uniform, unimaginative, and unambiguous. They don’t try to be anything that they are not and that’s okay. But there are some buildings out there that don’t fit the mold. Here’s our list of 10 of the Strangest Buildings Around the World.

Casa do Penedo, aka The Stone House, Portugal
While certainly not the first house to be made of stone, the Casa do Penedo is different in the fact that it’s made out of two large boulders. People have called it a Real Life Flintstone House, and it’s not hard to see why. The outside is completely stone, with the two boulders connected by concrete...

The Basket Building, Ohio USA
This building is just what it says—a basket. To be exact, a seven story, 185,000 square foot basket. That’s a lot of picnic baskets. But why build a giant basket? The office building was built for Longaberger Co., which produces baskets, and the idea for it came from the owner of said company. It cost roughly 30 million dollars to make, and seeing as how the company closed down a couple years back, we’re not sure if it was worth it. To them, anyway. We love it, and to be honest, who wouldn’t?...

Kansas City Library, Missouri USA
The Kansas City Library is truly a sight to see. It’s a remodeled old First National Bank, and it definitely did the bank justice. The outside of its garage looks like a giant book case, if the books where 25 feet tall and nine feet wide. The community voted on which titles to have on the 22 large books, and they range from “The Lord of the Rings” all the way to “Fahrenheit 451”...

Museu de Arte Contemporânea Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This Museum of Contemporary Art perfectly captures what contemporary art is all about. The designer wanted the museum to look like a tropical flower integrated into the surroundings, and if you squint, you can almost see it...

Casa da Musica, Portugal
Located in the city of Porto, this concert hall came to be due to a competition. But what competition could possibly have this outcome? Well, it was to design a new concert hall in the city’s historical center, Rotunda da Boavista. The designer, Rem Koolhaas, already had a design, but not for the concert hall. Instead, it was for a client’s house. When the client dropped the project, Koolhaas turned it into a concert hall, entered the competition, and won...

WonderWorks Pigeon Forge,Tennessee USA
When you see WonderWorks, you will definitely be wondering how it works. The whole building is upside down and even the inside has the floor on the ceiling. WonderWorks is a 35,000 square foot museum-amusement park hybrid. Like most museums, it has different exhibits, but it also has an indoor ropes course and laser tag...

Dancing House, Czech Republic
The Dancing House lies in the capital city of Czech Republic, Prague, and certainly belongs there. The building was designed by Vlado Milunic and Frank Owen Gehry in the early 1990s. They based the building off of the famous dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Due to this, it’s sometimes called the Fred and Ginger Building...

Cube Houses of Rotterdam, Netherlands
When given the task of designing houses for a pedestrian bridge, what would you come up with? Piet Blom decided to make a forest of bright yellow, cubed houses. Crazy, right? But the city of Rotterdam built them, so it must not have seemed that crazy. Each house is 100 square meters, and out of that only one quarter is usable...

Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
The Kunsthaus Graz is an art museum that looks like, well, a blob. The most apt description of it is a giant alien heart, and we agree. It was built in 2003 and has skylight shafts that protrude from it. 1,000 fluorescent rings are stuck into its surface which can be programmed to create patterns, so if you visit at night, you might be able to get a free light show...

National Fisheries Development Board, Hyderabad, India
Most government buildings are just like the government-boring. However, that’s not the case for this one. As the head office of fisheries in India, they wanted this building to stand out. And that’s why it’s a giant fish...

The world sure does have some crazy buildings. What are some weird or strange buildings you think we should know about? Tell us in the comments below, and don’t forget to like and subscribe. See you soon!