Montreal's 45-Degree Monument to Bureaucracy
A 45-degree tower that doubles as an observatory, a ski-jump, and the city's favourite architectural practical joke-a triumph of engineering politely married to municipal chaos.Read More 
This Pagoda Is Literally A Book
In Mandalay you can walk through 729 marble 'pages' of the entire Buddhist canon housed in tiny stupas and it feels like the universe decided to do library design on steroids.Read More 
That Russian Tower Made From Straight Sticks
Vladimir Shukhov built curvy-looking towers out of straight steel rods and they still feel like cheating.Read More 
When the Doomsday Vault Got Damp
We tunneled seeds into a mountain like a paranoid sci fi extra, and then climate change sent a polite puddle to the door - hilarious and terrifying.Read More 
The Sanzhi UFO Pods: When Architecture Took a Wrong Turn at Sci Fi
A seaside Taiwanese resort of saucer-shaped holiday pods was built, abandoned, and finally bulldozed - and the paperwork was the most ghostly thing of all.Read More 
The House That Ate a China Shop (In the Best Way)
There is a tiny French house literally mosaicked from other people's broken plates by one obsessive man and I go there in my brain when life needs a weird hug.Read More 
That Bulgarian Flying Saucer They Properly Abandoned
They built a communist saucer on a mountain, covered it in mosaics, and then left it to rot like a bureaucratic afterthought.Read More 
The Church Carved From Salt (Yes, Really)
Down beneath Krakow miners carved an entire chapel out of rock salt - altars, chandeliers and all - which is both impolite to lick and unfathomably splendid.Read More 
That Cathedral With Giant Stone Scissors
Wells Cathedral shoved a pair of massive stone 'scissors' into its nave in the 14th century to stop the tower falling through the roof and it still looks gobsmacking.Read More 
Tokyo's Replaceable Flats That Never Got Replaced
A 1972 Tokyo tower of 140 prefabricated 'capsules' was supposed to be swapped out like appliances - but the future forgot to turn up.Read More 