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I never managed to wrap my head around these, yes low hanging fruit I know.
The 500' radius meanders always get me. I know it's supposed to break up sight lines and kinda slow drivers down, but it's just uncanny.
Houston is filthy with these, but Cape Coral will always be the poster child to me. Just imagine this with water access too.
i take every chance i can get to post about the communist monuments in Yugoslavia, also known as the Spomeniks. There are dozens - perfect fodder for a rabbit hole - but here are a few:
Also, Habitat 67 in Montreal is an apartment complex that looks like datamosh
we will make a big banana we will call it the big banana
Aliens trying to recreate human architecture: "see this building? humans call it the Gherkin. Gherkins are also a food item. Humans like food-shaped buildings"
i like food shaped buildings
Here's one for you
I actually saw the big pineapple when i was a kid, on a road trip to Queensland
Look, I'm not gonna deny it, the aliens gave a point.
Half-Life
Spaceship Engine
The entity
Cyberpunk 2077-ass place
Shin Takamatsu designs some cool buildings. They all look like they could be headquarters for Power Rangers.
Neo-Andean architecture in Bolivia is pretty neat and colorful:
i want to fuck those neo-andean buildings
those bolivian buildings are awesome
I wouldn't say alien looking (what with the problematic history of such claims) but the Ellora Caves are cool. Carved out of rock, and looks even more elaborate than Petra.
This is most what I was looking for!
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Cappadocia Turkey is like something out of a scifi movie.
We call them fairy chimneys in Turkish. We also have them in Erzurum, Afyon and Van provinces as well.
Also there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_underground_city
2800 year old underground complex housing 20,000
I got to do go there too, it was truly awesome.
I went there as a child with my family. After some stupid argument, I ran away from them and got lost for half an hour. Then they found me and got my ass handed to me lol.
This is awesome, thanks!
I've always had a soft spot for the Geisel library if that counts
The weirdest feeling I've ever gotten from a building in person was the national center for performing arts in Beijing. I don't know how to describe how it made me feel. It's a really pretty building but it feels odd and imposing too.
And I wanna mention Austin City Hall in Austin, Texas. I've always thought it's a very cleverly designed building that's both very weird yet very orthodox at the same time.
As for natural but alien:
Pics from Mars:
Don't know about alien, but I can give you cooky and weird.
The old longaberger hq in the us
The national fisheries development board building in India 
And the Bolwoningen apartments in the Netherlands.
And the Bolwoningen apartments in the Netherlands.
I remember seeing a Tom Scott video about how these are really neat and at the same time a nightmare to live in because they're so maintenance-intensive.
That is exactly how I know about them too
oh shit, it's the long burger basket!!!! (I have one in my house)
Long bourgeois basket
Fish building is where it's at HECK YEAH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
I love 33 Thomas Street. When I've gone to Manhattan, sitting under it has been one of my favourite things because it's so viscerally hostile that it feels like a horror movie. It's the only skyscraper dedicated to evil things in that city which honestly embraces that, and the result is similar to looking up at a mountain that hates you.
Isn't that the building where the control game takes place?
They also used it as the big bad building in Mr. Robot
It has been reported that the building is used as a National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance facility.
A monolith that steals our thoughts to justify killing anyone who displeases it. And when you stand under it, something about its acoustic profile is so unique and unsettling. It dampens the sound around it in a way that makes it uncanny valley territory. Everything is just a little bit off in a way that spikes my fight-or-flight response.
I call it the Treatlerite Baroque
The Thing by John Carpenter
Needs a bigger garage, with the entrance like 20ft forward.
The windows should all be different shapes and heights, and more of them
Honestly, this is one of the least offensive Mcmansions I've seen in a while. 3 rooflines is insane, but relative to the ones I've seen with 20+ it's positively reserved.
did you mean the bad kind? 
Sadly I don't think this ever got / will be built, but it blows my mind every time I see it
Cuevas cerca de Ávila, near Madrid
This is rad!
It's pretty cool!
At first it's indigestion for the eyes because there's too much to take in at once
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The most basic answer possible but I still think the pyramids are absolutely wild given the time period they’re from.
I honestly feel the opposite way, I think if you want to make a really tall tower and you don't have modern engineering and materials to help your narrow towers stay standing, a pyramid is the natural thing to build. There's a reason multiple different cultures built them independently.
They did in fact build obelisks. Thing about obelisks is that what topples them isn't shifting soils or wind or water, but humans who are looking to alter the slate of history or remove something they feel opposed to.
The labor to knock down a tower is much less than the labor to flatten a pyramid. This is the main selection pressure that leaves pyramids in place.
There's a reason multiple different cultures built them independently
The blueprints were super easy for the aliens to explain
To be fair I'm still not entirely sure how they designed the interior; did they cut into the pyramid after it was built, or did they have the interior built at the same time or prior to finishing the construction? It feels like the pyramid would have trouble being even-sided on the outside when the interior isn't a perfect square all in all.
Also on a further note on how awesome the pyramids are: apparently the bricks are 'stapled' together; that is, they dug grooves into the tops of the blocks and then poured molten metal into them to hold them together; that's pretty cool to be honest.
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