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World's Strangest | 7 Secret Passageways & Hidden Doors. 1. Wardrobe Hidden Playroom Like something straight our of Narnia, this wardrobe is actually a secret entrance to a playroom. The owner of the house had the wardrobe and figured he might as well add a touch of magic to the house for a pretty amazing result. 2. Home Theater Ticket Booth Hidden Door Do you like unique hidden doors and cool home theaters? Well this one is orderable from Creative Building Resources. 3.

Not sure about your neighborhood, but mine has strict codes about what you can and cannot do to the facade under our historic preservation laws. 4. The bookcase, holding rows of books, a stuffed dachshund and a volleyball, silently swings outward, revealing a tiny, well-lit study room. 5. This one speaks for itself, I’d say. 6. This staircase rises to reveal a hidden door. 7. Ever wanted a wine cellar but didn’t have the space to build one?

Unique hotels in the West. 30 Best Room Pictures of the Week - June 02st to June 08th, 2012. 1. I really love this pool 2. Kohler Waterfall Shower 3. The Hidden Life Within – Artist Giuseppe Penone carefully removes the rings of growth to reveal the ‘sapling within’. By carving out the inside of a tree trunk and leaving the knots in place, they eventually emerge as tiny limbs 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 1900 Inn on Montford in Asheville, North Carolina 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 7 weirdest yet beautiful stadiums around the world « Chelsea Football Club are facing serious problems with their stadium now. The pitch owners’ association has declined their proposal to buy back the land and now they are in serious turmoil.

With that in mind, I meant to write about the best stadiums of the world. But then again, we all know them right – the Wembley, the San Siro, the Salt Lake, the Allianz Arena and so on. What would be more interesting would be to take a look at the weirdest stadiums of the world. Aalesund arena, Norway FC - A really old stadium, this one. People sitting in the Cliff Gallery. 50 Most Strange and Unusual Buildings arround the World | Web Design Blog,... - StumbleUpon.

The world is full of beautiful strange and fantastic buildings that are the examples of amazing architecture. Architecture Photography brings this beauty to the world, and for this reason, architectural photography is as thrilling as it is heartwarming. In this roundup, we have compiled an amazing collection of some bizarre yet interesting buildings that are reflected through architectural photography. Enjoy! The UFO house in Sanjhih The Device to Root Out Evil Krzywy Dom Dom postawiony na glowie Anomaly Stata Center Container City 2, Leamouth, London Strong Children’s Museum The Ufo House Dancing House Blur Building Frank O. Un museo del futuro Stone house Library Parking Garage United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel Wonderworks – Pigeon Forge, TN Dan and the house View of the Luxor from The Strip Updside Down Building: City Hall, Tempe AZ Solar Furnace at Odeillo Font-Romeu, France Cube Houses Erwin Wurm: House attack Chapel-in-the-Rock Atomium Expo Zaragoza 2008, Pabellón de Aragón Eden Le Futuroscope.

50 of the Most Important Landmarks of the World (Part 1) - StumbleUpon. Ghost Town of the Moscow Region - StumbleUpon. The worlds ten creepiest abandoned cities | Gadling.com - StumbleUpon. The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth | Cracked.com - StumbleUpon.

It doesn't matter whether or not you believe in ghosts, there are some places in which none of us would want to spend a night. These places have well earned their reputations as being so creepy, tragic or mysterious (or all three) that they definitely qualify as "haunted. " Places like... Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan that makes The Blair Witch Project forest look like Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. It probably has something to do with all the dead bodies scattered around.

What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide. How many suicides does it takes for a place to get that reputation? A dozen? More than 500 fucking people have taken their own lives in Aokigahara since the 1950s. The trend has supposedly started after Seicho Matsumoto published his novel Kuroi Kaiju (Black Sea of Trees) where two of his characters commit suicide there. Also skulls. "If you commit suicide here, bears will poop on your corpse. " Winchester Mystery House. Golden_Gate_Bridge_California.jpg from citypictures.org. The Most Frightening Bridge Ever. Storseisundet Bridge (Norwegian: Storseisundetbrua) is the longest of the eight bridges that make up the Atlanterhavsveien (“The Atlantic Road”), the road connection from the mainland Romsdal peninsula to the island of Averøya in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.

It is a bridge on one of Norway’s most scenic and popular tourist roads – the Atlantic Ocean Road (Atlanterhavsveien in Norwegian). The bridge named Storseisundet makes a sharp bend as it jumps over a number of small islands and waterways. The approach to the bridge looks scary as the bridge seems to end abruptly and as if any attempt to proceed would result into the vehicle flying out and dropping into the waters below. Storseisundet Bridge is a cantilever bridge that is 260 metres (850 ft) long and with a maximum clearance to the sea of 23 metres (75 ft).

It was opened on 7 July 1989, and it was a toll road until June 1999. 1. Of course, it’s just an optical illusion. Ads by Google. The Castle - StumbleUpon. Treehotel, Sweden & FAN THE FIRE - StumbleUpon. UPDATE: Treehotel are now offering their Mirrorcube treehouse as a turnkey solution available to the public Don’t get me wrong, cities are great. Hell, I currently live in London and before my days are over want to spend a serious amount more time in New York, LA, Tokyo, Paris, Sydney and more, but when you need to really get away, it should be to the Treehotel, not the Waldorf. An eco-based design hotel concept, each “room” is wonderfully individual with stunning design and even better views. With the plan to build 24 new treehouses over 5 years, a handful are already in place, and miles from civilisation offering the perfect, isolated getaway, just a touch south of the Arctic Circle. Although the nearby Britta’s Guesthouse, run by the owners of Treehotel, will serve up breakfast, lunch and dinner, and offers a spa, TV, internet, and a bunch of other home comforts you probably should go without.

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The Infinity Room - My Modern Metropolis - StumbleUpon. With this immersive installation, French artist Serge Salat invites visitors to take a journey through endless layers of space, decked out with cubic shapes, panels of mirrors, shifting lights and music. “Beyond Infinity” is a multi-sensory, multimedia experience that blends Eastern Chinese with Western Renaissance. Inspired by the Suzhou Gardens, a masterpiece of Chinese landscape, the three-lined trigram of I Ching is the main pattern that organizes the space of the work.

Salat uses mirrors as optical illusions, exploding a single room into spatial infinity. via [Architizer] Views: 422998 Tags: Serge Salat, The Infinity Room, architecture, design.