After Angkor Wat, more must see marvels of wonderful weird architecture, UK, France, Spain, India, Mexico, Worlwide

1 France, Hauterives

Ferdinand's Palace. Picture from Wikipedia.

French postman Ferdinand Cheval (French for horse) built this Palace of rocks, in his spare time, working far into the night. He was a widower with a son brought up by godparents. The postman wanted to be buried in his palace but this was not allowed so he built his own mausoleum in a cemetery.

Ferdinand's Mausoleum.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Cheval

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2 Buddha Park, Vientiane, Laos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha_Park

Photo by Dezwitzer in Wikipedia, article on Buddha Park, Laos.

3 The Rock Garden of Chandigarh, India

4 Méxiico castle in Xilitla SLP by Sir Edward James, who was born in Scotland.

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5 Gaudi's Cathedral and block of flats, Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain

6 Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, USA

wiki/Philadelphia%27s_Magic_Gardens

If you can't travel so far:

Shell grotto, Margate.

Shell house, Framingham, Norfolk, at English coast village with seafood festival and RNLI exhibition of pier with lifeboat (see my previous post). We tried to get in to see it on a Sunday about noon but it is manned by volunteers and no sign of opening time so we had to drive off for lunch on our way home to London.


For more locations and photos:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Visionary_environments

This list includes some spooky catacombs of mummified bodies. 

The most modern and uplifting suggestions is the Gardens By The Bay in Singapore. The nearest MRT train station is currently Bayfront and the other station Gardens by the bay will be open by 2021.


If you like staying in unusual places, and I do, there's the Crazy House in Vietnam:
.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hằng_Nga_Guesthouse

Tripadvisor has collections of unusual hotels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardens_by_the_Bay Angela Lansbury BA Hons, travel writer and photographer, author, speaker.
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