Architectural Oddities in Brazil

This spaceship-like structure was once a popular roadside restaurant.

The most unusual block in Brasília.

This kilometer-long university building is an unexpected architectural delight.

After a terrible drought, townspeople used wine to build this church.

The preserved home of the first settler of "the most German town in Brazil."

This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

Something about this Brazilian city is slightly askew... literally.

An Amazonian hotel is the ultimate treehouse and provides stilt based accommodation.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

Museum precariously perched on a massive yellow pillar.

Solitary monument dedicated to the beauty of nature.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.