Mind-Bending Buildings

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Device to Root Out Evil: A sculpture by American artist Dennis Oppenheim, this upside down mini-church was rejected by Vancouver's parks committee and is now on display by Calgary's Glenbow Museum.

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Hole House: Not much to go on for this structure dubbed "The Hole House" in Houston, Texas. Our best guess is an art project, but, of course, our second is the condemned home was sucked into a worm hole - to another dimension. Where there's a war being waged by good and evil robots. Oh, and dragons. What - don't look at me like that, Hole House!

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Puzzling World: Located in the Southern Lakes region of the South Island of New Zealand is Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World. Built as a trippy maze in 1973, it is now a tourist attraction which also includes the interesting sounding Illusion Rooms, a Puzzle Centre/Cafe, obligatory gift shop and eccentric architecture and oddities. The most bizarre part of the architecture is the Leaning Tower of Wanaka, which has been pulled out of the ground and is balanced on one corner at 53 degrees. The Leaning Tower of Pisa only leans at a meager six degrees, FYI.

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Cubic Houses: Piet Bloom designed these strangely entrancing houses in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The 40 cubes are attached and each one is based on the shape of a conventional house, but tilted 45 degrees and resting on a hexagon-shaped pylon. The walls and windows are all angled at 54.7 degrees. Talk about disorienting!

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Free Spirit House: This giant tree house on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, is suspended in the trees and billed as an "eco-resort." But don't expect bathrooms or plumbing - you'll have to do with the built-in sauna and a fairly good stereo system (outhouses are available for your comfort).

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