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15 bizarre buildings around the world

April 17, 2014 08:57 IST

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Image: A house built on a rock on the river Drina is seen near the western Serbian town of Bajina Basta, about 160km (99 miles) from the capital Belgrade.
Photographs: Marko Djurica/Reuters

These are the modern architectural wonders of the world. 

Take a look at some of the most unusual and creative buildings across the globe.

The house was built in 1968 by a group of young men who decided that the rock on the river was an ideal place for a tiny shelter, according to the house's co-owner, who was among those involved in its construction. 

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Photographs: Marko Djurica/Reuters

A suspected illegal construction is seen covered by green plants atop a 19-storey residential building in Guangzhou, China.

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China Guangzhou

Photographs: Marko Djurica/Reuters

People sit in front of a house, which was built upside down by Polish architects Irek Glowacki and Marek Rozhanski, in the western Austrian village of Terfens.

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Photographs: Carlos Barria/Reuters

An aerial view of a building shaped like a clay teapot is in Wuxi, China.

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China Wuxi

Photographs: Luke MacGregor/Reuters

A very thin house is pictured at the end of a terrace in London.

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London

Photographs: Luke MacGregor/Reuters

A car stops beside a house in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling,China.

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China Wenling

Photographs: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A house partially built in the shape of an airplane in Abuja, Nigeria.

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Nigeria Abuja

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Houses are seen on the rooftop of a factory building in Dongguan, China.

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China Dongguan

Photographs: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Postal worker Glenn Gray passes a piece of public art, depicting a sliding house in a residential road in Margate, southern England.

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Glenn Gray England Margate

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A lavatory-shaped house, Haewoojae, which means the house for satisfying one's anxiety, in Suwon, South Korea.

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Haewoojae South Korea Suwon

Photographs: Kacper Pempel/Reuters

A man takes a picture of the one of the world's narrowest buildings, built as an artistic installation wedged between two existing buildings, in Warsaw, Poland. The building just 92 cm (36 inches) wide as its narrowest point. 

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Warsaw Poland

Photographs: Carlos Barria/Reuters

A laborer works at an upside-down house under construction at Fengjing Ancient Town, Jinshan District, south of Shanghai, China.

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Photographs: Jason Lee/Reuters

A privately built villa, surrounded by imitation rocks, on the rooftop of a 26-storey residential block in Beijing.

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Beijing

Photographs: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

People pray around Saint George, one of the 11 monolithic rock-cut churches, during a Good Friday celebration in Lalibela, Ethiopia.

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Saint George Lalibela Ethiopia

Photographs: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A privately-built illegal temple-like structure on the top of a 20-storey residential block in Shenzhen.

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Shenzhen
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