This week’s crazy building is Chand Baori in Abhaneri, India. Some of the past crazy buildings have been extraordinarily high. This one is 100 feet deep! Chand Baori is one of the world’s largest stepwells, extends 13 stories downward into the earth. It is so deep, in fact, that it is several degrees cooler at

This week’s crazy building is the Russian embassy in Havana, Cuba. Constructed starting in 1978 and completed in 1987, what is now the embassy of Russia opened as a haven of the Soviets. This was a time when the USSR had enormous influence in Cuba—at one time they had 7,000 troops stationed on site! The embassy is built in

This week’s crazy building is Kuggen in Gothenburg, Sweden. Completed in 2011, Kuggen (Swedish for “the Cogwheel”) was designed for the Chalmers Institute of Technology by famous architect Gert Wingårdh. It connects to neighboring buildings via two second-floor walkways. This weird structure does indeed look like a giant cogwheel—or perhaps a jagged red tornado. Each

This week’s crazy building is Raja Gopura in Murudeshwara, India. A gopura is an ornate monument tower at the entrance to a temple. At 20 stories and a staggering 237 feet, Raja Gopura is one of the tallest on earth. Two life-size elephants guard the steps leading to its gateway. This is the entrance to