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In this video, we will show you some of the most incredible and bizarre buildings that exist around the world. These buildings are not only architectural marvels, but also expressions of creativity, culture, and imagination. Some of them are inspired by nature, some by art, and some by pure whimsy. Join us as we take you on a tour of these weird and wonderful buildings that will make you wonder how they were built and why.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:01 A skyscraper that changes its shape
02:56 A dancing building
03:52 Casa Terracota
09:00 Fake buildings of New York
17:00 A building that disappeared from a beach
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:01 A skyscraper that changes its shape
02:56 A dancing building
03:52 Casa Terracota
09:00 Fake buildings of New York
17:00 A building that disappeared from a beach
This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.
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00:00Have you ever seen a skyscraper that can change its shape?
00:03The creators of the FNF Tower in Panama City had a concept and only $50 million,
00:09which isn't a lot in skyscraper money.
00:12So, they couldn't afford a mistake, and they finished a concrete structure
00:17with the 39 upper floors rotating 9 degrees around an axis from the first attempt
00:22without spending any extra time or materials.
00:27Dubai's rotating tower will look different every time you see it, once it's finished.
00:32Each of its 80 floors will rotate 360 degrees individually around the center of the building.
00:38The lucky residents will be able to control that rotation,
00:41which means they can choose their view from the window.
00:44A complete lap should take about 90 minutes.
00:47And no, the tower won't be a huge waste of electricity.
00:51It will produce its own energy.
00:53Wind turbines between the floors will drive the rotations.
00:58If you've ever wanted to live inside a video game,
01:01book an apartment in the King Power Mahana Khan building.
01:05This pixelated skyscraper around the height of the Eiffel Tower is the tallest building in Thailand.
01:11The secret behind its looks is the horizontally and vertically divided glass windows.
01:16It took five years to finish this beauty with over 200 apartments, a hotel, luxury shops, restaurants,
01:24and one of the most breathtaking viewpoints in the world.
01:28The Libyan International Building features one of the world's tallest artificial waterfalls running right down its side.
01:36No worries, they only turn it on on special occasions, and it uses a mix of recycled tap water and
01:42rainwater.
01:43When it started running for the first time, the non-informed locals even reported a huge water leak.
01:50The Cyber Texture office building in Mumbai looks like a huge egg made of glass and steel.
01:57It was actually inspired by a vessel that, like our planet, has its own ecosystem.
02:02To bring down the heat levels inside, the architects chose the ideal orientation and added sun shading and an underground
02:10cooling system.
02:13The Marina Bay Sands in Singapore seems like a Stonehenge look-alike,
02:18but its architect claims that he was inspired by a house of cards.
02:22The horizontal one is balanced on the three vertical ones.
02:26They are three 55-story hotels with restaurants, nightclubs, gardens, shops, museums, and movie theaters.
02:34The horizontal card is an infinity swimming pool with the best view of the city for up to 4,000
02:40visitors.
02:40The pool hangs at the height of the 57th floor, and it feels like nothing is holding it.
02:47The dancing house definitely stands out among the more traditional architecture in Prague.
02:53The nickname for the house is Fred and Ginger.
02:56The stone tower symbolizes the famous dancer Fred Astaire, and the glass tower, his partner, Ginger Rogers.
03:03There's even imaginary hair on top of Fred's tower.
03:07Ninety-nine concrete panels support the dancing shape, all of them of different dimensions.
03:14Umeda Sky Building, twice the height of Big Ben, consists of two towers of glass and steel to the north
03:21of Osaka Station.
03:22The floating garden observatory connects the towers on top.
03:26Although the building is in a huge city, the skywalk is so high in the clouds that the only thing
03:32you'll hear up there is the wind.
03:34If you're scared of heights, you can visit an urban garden, a theater, an art museum, or one of the
03:40many offices closer to the ground inside the building.
03:45Architect Octavio Mendoza owns probably the largest piece of pottery in the world.
03:51If you're ever in Colombia, ask the locals for directions to the Flintstone House.
03:56Yes, they call it that for a reason.
03:58The official name is Casa Terracotta, and the architect only used clay to build it.
04:04He let it bake and harden in the sun, which transforms the pliable material into solid ceramic.
04:11Every curve of the building is designed after the surrounding hills.
04:15All the furniture inside is also made of clay.
04:18Mendoza is determined to work on the casa for the rest of his life.
04:24Artists Dennis Sullivan and Francis Conklin have been saving money for 15 years,
04:29carving smaller wooden dogs to create their dream project.
04:32The Dog Bark Park Inn in Cottonwood is a 12-foot beagle that stands proud in the Idaho prairie.
04:40There is a bedroom and a living area in its body, and an extra bedroom in the head.
04:47Have you ever wondered what it's like to be inside a huge carpet?
04:51Me neither.
04:52But checking out the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum is definitely worth it anyway.
04:57It shows the history of this important local craft in every detail.
05:01Austrian architect Franz Jans designed the construction, and it took six years to finish it.
05:09The basket building in Ohio looks exactly like a real shopping basket, except it's 160 times larger.
05:16It even has two attached handles.
05:18The building served as the headquarters of Longaberger Basket Company, then was sold to become a luxury hotel.
05:28A giant whale? An airship? Can you guess what's inside this building in Graz, Austria?
05:34Two British architects won the Europe-wide competition to design this art museum.
05:39The biomorphic construction has around 1,000 acrylic glass elements on its skin.
05:45During the night, it can send light signals and messages to people on the other side of the river.
05:50It takes in daylight from the north through nozzles on its top.
05:54The needle is a viewing platform.
05:58The half-house in Toronto, Canada was built in the late 19th century and was one of six identical houses
06:05standing next to each other.
06:06When developers came to this area, the owners of all the other houses agreed to move.
06:11And this one wouldn't go.
06:14A demolition crew showed some impressive skills as they managed to tear down the neighboring house without doing any damage
06:20at all to what is now the half-house.
06:23The white exterior wall used to be load-bearing, dividing the neighbors' bedrooms and living rooms.
06:29One wrong move of the excavator and the entire construction would become ruins.
06:35The shell house in Isla Mujeres, Mexico, stands by the ocean, was inspired by the ocean, and looks like one
06:43of the ocean's symbols.
06:45The house is shell-shaped and covered with shells from nearby beaches.
06:49Architect Eduardo Ocampo designed this beauty as he wanted to have a one-of-a-kind house for his brother
06:55to come and visit more often.
06:57Now it's up for rent for vacationers.
07:01The Bubble Palace, not far away from Cannes in France, was designed by a Hungarian architect and purchased by Pierre
07:09Cardin.
07:10In case you have a couple of spare million, you can buy this interesting property.
07:14You'll get 10-bedroom suites decorated by contemporary artists, gardens, water ponds, a swimming pool, and a 500-seat outdoor
07:23auditorium with an awesome view of the Bay of Cannes as a bonus.
07:28Can you find one house standing straight here?
07:31I know, I also failed.
07:34All the cubes in the cube house in Rotterdam are tilted 45 degrees at their side.
07:40The idea here was to make the most of the space.
07:43Dutch architect Piet Blom designed the houses in the late 70s to look like an abstract forest.
07:49Each triangular roof represents a treetop.
07:52The houses stand at three floors tall, with an entrance on the ground floor, an open kitchen, and a living
07:59room on the first floor, as well as a bathroom with two bedrooms on the top floor.
08:05The Boot in Tasman, New Zealand is a hotel that looks like it comes straight out of a children's book.
08:11It even has legit shoelaces.
08:13There's a spiral staircase, cozy fireplace, kitchenette, and a bedroom with a balcony.
08:20If you ever find yourself in Mitchell, South Dakota, be sure not to miss out on their key tourist attraction,
08:27the Corn Palace.
08:28The locals have always been so proud of prairie gold that they first built a palace out of corn back
08:34in 1892 to prove to the rest of the world how fertile their lands are.
08:39What you can see now is the rebuilt version.
08:41Every year, they put new corn in 13 shades to form new beautiful murals.
08:49Wow, looky here.
08:51It's New York City.
08:53The Big Apple.
08:54The city that never sleeps.
08:55Hong Kong on the Hudson.
08:57The greatest city in the world.
08:58New York, New York.
09:00The city so nice, they named it twice.
09:02All right, I'll stop.
09:04You thought you knew this city so well, but underneath all that glitz and glamour is a facade.
09:10Literally.
09:10New York is populated with some of the most iconic urban buildings in the world and home to some of
09:16the most unique and famous towers.
09:18Who would have known that New York was a front for fake buildings?
09:22And the cool thing is that there are plenty to search for.
09:26Okay, I'm adding that to my bucket list.
09:28So, the question is, why do they put these fake buildings all over New York?
09:33The city is one of the most vibrant places in the world and requires many infrastructures to keep the city
09:38in motion.
09:39That means having many industrial structures and buildings in every major district.
09:44New York is charming for the design and the buildings.
09:47Imagine having industrial structures right next to your favorite pizza parlor or hot dog stand.
09:53The designers thought ahead and decided to disguise those industrial infrastructures as fake buildings.
10:00They blend with the city so well that they don't stand out.
10:04They look like your good old apartment or housing unit with a front door, real-life windows, and even charming
10:10balconies where people would hang out.
10:12The only thing is that there's nothing behind the facade and no one is allowed inside.
10:17So, where in the world can you find these fake buildings?
10:21For starters, one of the most popular fake buildings is in Brooklyn.
10:25At 58 Juralamon Street, you can find a very typical neighborhood.
10:30But between the buildings stands a brick building with a slightly deeper shade than the rest.
10:35It has bright open windows that blend in with the rest of the buildings in the neighborhood, except that they're
10:41blacked out.
10:41At first glance, you might not think of it as anything.
10:44But if you pay close attention, the building looks like a glitch from a video game.
10:50It was built in 1847, way before New York was considered glamorous.
10:55Originally, it was meant to be a regular building, but in 1908, they converted it into a fake building.
11:02Don't think you can just try to break in.
11:04Even if you could, it's pointless, because it's part of a ventilation fan for the subway.
11:09It also serves as an emergency exit for some of the surrounding buildings.
11:14Actually, throughout New York, many fake buildings exist to disguise the subway vents for the smoke to escape.
11:21All the way to 415 Bruckner Boulevard, the Bronx, this townhouse was designed by the Switzer Group, which is an
11:29interior architect company.
11:30It's not as charming as the one at 58 Jorah Lemon Street, but it serves a similar purpose, to hide
11:37an electric substation for New York's utility company.
11:41The city needs these substations to reduce the high-voltage electricity to a lower voltage so it can be distributed
11:47locally.
11:48Having a building like this popping out of the middle of your neighborhood isn't exactly the smartest way to attract
11:54people to the Bronx.
11:55That's why the fake townhouse facade is the perfect camouflage.
11:59Now, some of these fake buildings don't really hit the mark and stick out like a sore thumb.
12:05The people of Manhattan describe the Mulry Square infrastructure as a complete clunker.
12:10After plenty of redesigns and back-to-the-drawing-board meetings, the result is still not pretty.
12:16The locals compare it to a concrete box.
12:19They created windows without glass, which doesn't allow the building to blend in with the rest of the neighborhood.
12:25But it beats a typical subway ventilation plant either way.
12:30There are just so many places to visit and cross off your bucket list.
12:34But if you live in China, you can literally stay in the country and visit many iconic cities around the
12:40world.
12:41The replica cities began when the Chinese economy started booming in the early 90s.
12:46They wanted the lifestyle of the rich and famous without wanting to leave their country.
12:51They can be comfortable eating their local food and get the feeling of being abroad.
12:56The Chinese province of Guangdong has an identical copy of the historical Australian alpine village Hallstatt.
13:04The real Hallstatt is centuries old and one of the most charming places to discover.
13:09The local people of Hallstatt also had no idea that their home was being built in China.
13:14Some people thought that this was controversial, probably because it cost around $940 million to build it.
13:22Paris is undoubtedly one of the most charming cities you could ever visit.
13:27Its rich history and vibrant culture are enough to catch the first plane to go there.
13:32For residents of Tian du Cheng, that's something they can do anytime they want.
13:37The city is also known as Sky City and has a replica of the Eiffel Tower that looks eerily like
13:43the iconic one in Paris
13:45and built buildings to match the city's visual charm.
13:48One of the main things that will break the charm is the farmland surrounding the city.
13:53There's barely anyone there and the streets are always empty, very un-Paris-like.
13:58Still, you can find some nice fountains and statues scattered along the streets to give it some spirit.
14:04There's laundry hung everywhere, even on the trees.
14:07The picturesque fountains are dry and many apartments are empty.
14:11Only a few stores are open for business.
14:14Even though this looks like a fake city, it's quite real.
14:18Some people live here because it's more affordable than other places.
14:21Two hours away from this town is another version of Paris' Pont Alexandre III
14:26and a carbon copy of London's Tower Bridge, but with four towers instead of two.
14:32Hey, such a bargain!
14:34You can also visit the closest thing to Italy, but this time you can go shopping.
14:39Florencia Village is an outlet mall that offers an array of shops to lose yourself.
14:44The good thing is that this was built by an Italian developer to capture the essence of an Italian village.
14:50It has fountains, canals, and mosaics for proper aesthetics.
14:55It began in 2011 and has more than 200 shops with many Italian brands and British, U.S., and Chinese
15:02brands as well.
15:03The place is so popular that it gets between 10,000 and 25,000 visitors per day.
15:09China also has other replica towns that put you in a mini Manhattan called the Yuzhiapu Financial District.
15:16The developer's goal was to make this place the financial center of the world.
15:21It was complete with the right landmarks, like the Rockefeller and Lincoln Centers,
15:26but the project was halted in 2019, leaving it mainly empty.
15:30You can find a typical English town with cobbled streets, Victorian homes, and restaurants that make Thames Town.
15:37This place was meant to recreate a European lifestyle fantasy without leaving Shanghai.
15:43China also has a Dutch town that has some elements of Amsterdam with windmills and famous canals.
15:49They even decided to copy some of the landmarks, like the Netherlands Maritime Museum.
15:55Here's a bonus story of Lebanon's thinnest building built out of a dispute.
15:59It's the story of two brothers who both inherited unequal plots of land.
16:04One of the brothers happened to get a very thin plot of land and couldn't help but be jealous of
16:09his brother's nice plot of land.
16:11He wasn't pleased.
16:13Both of the lands overlooked the Mediterranean Sea in a lively neighborhood of Beirut.
16:18So it's no wonder that both brothers couldn't agree on how they should develop their lands.
16:23It was obvious that the brother with the most land could build a proper building.
16:28The other brother had to improvise.
16:30He decided to obstruct his brother's property by constructing a thin building enough to only fit 14 feet at its
16:38widest and 2 feet at its most narrow.
16:41It was constructed in 1954, and the locals of the area know it as the grudge.
16:47The crazy thing is that the place was once habitable with many visitors enjoying their stay.
16:52It's not easy to live there, but it's part of living the experience.
16:56The building is still standing, but is empty.
17:00You've just reached your perfect spot on a deserted beach.
17:03It's so quiet here that you start to doze off.
17:06But as you open your eyes, you are shocked.
17:09Wait a minute.
17:10Is that an actual house that's just been washed up on the shore?
17:15It may sound like the beginning of a sci-fi novel, but not if you live near this beach in
17:20El Salvador.
17:21There's a mysteriously abandoned house there that looks as if it's just been washed ashore.
17:26How did this villa end up there?
17:28How long has it been here without anyone noticing it?
17:32This mysterious construction is 46 miles south of El Salvador's capital, San Salvador.
17:39Locals say the building used to be a hotel called Puerto Ventura.
17:43At the time it was built, its main attraction was the fact that it was really close to the sea.
17:49Unfortunately, the engineering behind it wasn't well planned out.
17:53All because locals didn't need any official permission to start the construction.
17:58The hotel was too close to the water and dangerously exposed to the elements.
18:04The Roman-style villa is now a mere 50 feet from the edge of the sea when the tide is
18:09low.
18:10It can only be accessed in the morning because later, the tides fill the first floor with salt water.
18:16What's now left of the hotel looks like the ruins of a two-story house.
18:21The front part is very impressive with Roman-type pillars.
18:25It also has wide windows on the second floor.
18:29You can still see parts of the iron structures and remains of what used to be the gateway to the
18:35second floor.
18:36There are some bleachers at the top of the building.
18:38They are sometimes used by tourists.
18:41More and more people are now browsing the area, taking photos,
18:44even though the building is obviously not safe for climbing.
18:49There's little information on how long it's been sitting in its current location,
18:53but some locals say it's been there for at least 20 years.
18:56It had remained a local secret for years before it was discovered by a TikTok user in 2021.
19:03But that doesn't answer the question.
19:05How did the hotel end up in another location altogether?
19:09This is where things become a little fuzzy.
19:12While some locals say that the building was abandoned decades ago,
19:16others claim it was deserted after Hurricane Mitch hit the area back in 1998.
19:22Hurricane Mitch was one of the most dangerous weather phenomena to ever hit Central America.
19:27During the storm, the winds traveled at 178 miles per hour,
19:32and the hurricane itself lasted for about 15 hours.
19:35It was also the cause of a huge amount of rainfall,
19:39which resulted in floods and many dangerous landslides.
19:43Being built so close to the shoreline,
19:45the former hotel had little chance of surviving the extreme weather conditions.
19:50So, it must have been literally displaced.
19:54After sitting under the sun,
19:55you might start dreaming of some snowballs getting washed ashore.
19:59You know, to even out the temperature.
20:01I'm not kidding.
20:03This strange natural phenomenon did happen back in 2016.
20:06It resulted in about 11 miles of the coast of the Gulf of Ob in West Siberia
20:12getting covered with huge snowballs.
20:15Because of the low temperatures,
20:17small pieces of ice started to form in the water.
20:20Afterward, the wind and waves rolled them into giant snowballs.
20:24Some of them were the size of a tennis ball,
20:27but others were up to three feet wide.
20:30A 2004 Harley-Davidson night train motorcycle
20:33popped up ashore on a British Columbia beach back in 2012.
20:38It was neatly packed inside a shipping container.
20:41It took some time to do it,
20:43but the owner was eventually traced down.
20:45His name was Ikuyo Yokoyama,
20:47and he lost his motorcycle after a tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011.
20:54To get to its final destination,
20:56the Harley-Davidson traveled more than 4,000 miles.
21:00To celebrate its long journey,
21:02Yokoyama donated the bike to the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee.
21:06It's been on display there ever since,
21:08in case you want to visit.
21:10This strange phenomenon made it look as if someone spilled dish soap all over the beach.
21:15But it does happen pretty often in Queensland.
21:18Sea foam covers the shore there a couple of times each year.
21:21It mostly happens after a storm,
21:24when ocean waves move dissolved organic matter around.
21:27It's basically like a giant ice cream maker.
21:30After Cyclone Debbie back in March of 2017,
21:34some beaches actually needed to be closed because of huge amounts of white foam.
21:38The wind even brought some of that foam to the nearby towns,
21:42making locals believe it was snowing.
21:45Would you be surprised to see a 6x6 foot rusty metal dye
21:49washed ashore on your local beach?
21:51Because back in 2017,
21:53people in Coeur d'Alene and Idaho sure were.
21:56It turned out to be an old storage tank.
21:59Someone decided to spice it up a bit by adding some white spots to make it look like a dye.
22:05In 1992,
22:06thousands of rubber duckies got stranded at sea
22:09after a large container ship that was transporting them was hit by a wave.
22:13As you can imagine,
22:15the ducks started popping up all over the world.
22:17In Hawaii,
22:18Alaska,
22:19South America,
22:20Australia,
22:21in Europe,
22:22and even in the Arctic.
22:23It's estimated that a couple hundred of those unlucky rubber ducks are still out there.
22:29Interestingly,
22:29they turned out to be very useful to scientists.
22:32Based on their movements,
22:34researchers can monitor the direction of water currents.
22:36If you happen to like dinosaurs,
22:39you'll be happy to know
22:40seawaters can also bring ashore some fossils.
22:44In 2018,
22:45a large dinosaur jawbone
22:47ended up on the coast of Lillstock Beach
22:49in Somerset, England.
22:51It used to belong to a dinosaur called
22:53Ichthyosaurus.
22:55Thanks to this finding,
22:57scientists were able to make an impressive discovery.
22:59Before,
23:00they thought the Ichthyosaurus
23:02could reach a maximum length of about 69 feet.
23:05But,
23:05after they studied the jawbone,
23:07they ended up recalculating the creature's size.
23:10They concluded
23:11that the Ichthyosaurus could grow up to 85 feet.
23:15The megalodon was the largest predator in our planet's history.
23:19It lived almost all over the globe,
23:22except near the poles.
23:23How do we know that?
23:24Because megalodon teeth keep appearing on beaches every now and then.
23:28One staggering megalodon tooth,
23:31which was way over 20 inches long,
23:33was discovered in a river in Croatia.
23:36Since these creatures have been extinct
23:38for about 3 million years,
23:40their teeth are highly prized by fossil hunters.
23:43A giant Lego man that washed ashore
23:46is something I never thought I'd hear about.
23:48And it turns out,
23:49it didn't happen just once.
23:51There were four of these giant Lego men in total,
23:54each around 8 feet tall.
23:56One was found in England
23:58and one in the Netherlands,
23:59while the other two popped up in Florida and California.
24:03It was surely not a coincidence,
24:05and after some research,
24:07people found out that a Dutch artist was behind this.
24:10Ego Leonard started this project
24:12as a personal statement campaign.
24:14A short film was even made about this,
24:16and it was called
24:17No Real Than You Are.
24:19This sentence was written
24:20on each of the four Lego men put to sea.
24:24A bundle of over 50 letters
24:26was washed ashore in New Jersey
24:27on a beach in Atlantic Highlands
24:29back in 2012.
24:31It happened shortly after Hurricane Sandy
24:34had struck the area.
24:35A 14-year-old boy found the letters
24:37and gave them to his mom.
24:38She was so touched by them
24:40that she decided to carefully dry
24:42and return them to their owner.
24:43The letters were the correspondence
24:45of two people named Dorothy and Lynn.
24:48They were dated between 1942 and 1948.
24:52The last was written a week before their wedding.
24:54With the help of an online genealogy site,
24:57the woman reached Dorothy
24:58and returned the letters
25:00to the 88-year-old woman
25:01who was living in a retirement home.
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