5 Real Buildings That Look Totally Photoshopped

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Bangkok Has A Pixelated Skyscraper

Ole Scheeren is an architect, which is kind of a shame, since he would've made one hell of a grizzled prospector with a name like that. But maybe he went into the right field after all, since his creations are mind-blowing wonders. Like this sucker:

Ninaras/Wiki CommonsMore suitable for a Donkey Kong than a King Kong.

That two-moves-from-a-game-over Jenga tower is Thailand's tallest skyscraper, the 1,120-foot-tall MahaNakhon. This multipurpose building in Bangkok's pricey central business district not only hosts retail spaces, eateries, exercise facilities, and an entire Marriott hotel, but also 200 apartments.

Kyle Hasegawa/Wiki Commons"We must be driving too fast. The area isn't done loading yet."

Those "pixels" are cantilevered balconies and observation points, as well as light-spewing focal points custom-designed to mess with passing stoners.

mrcmos/Adobe StockAnd a portal to TRON at night.

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Stockholm's Psychedelic Metro Stations

American subways are basically dirty holes in the ground that we reluctantly visit when our cars break down. Not so in Sweden, where the subways aren't just nice, they're works of art:

Arild Vagen/Wiki CommonsImagine a world where Pink Floyd had to take jobs as municipal planners.

That's the Tekniska Hogskolan stop, one of Stockholm's many psychedelic metro stations. Since the 1950s, more than 150 artists have volunteered their time to transform Stockholm's sprawling, 70-mile tunnel system into what some have called "the world's longest art gallery." It ranges from the purely aesthetically pleasing ...

Arild Vagen/Wiki CommonsWho lives in a train car under the ground?!

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Singapore Has Horizontal Apartment Buildings

Remember crazy ol' Ole Scheeren, the mad architect who pixelates buildings? Here's another of his greatest hits:

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The Badass War God Statue In China

In what is surely an attempt to rile up its populace for an impending world war, China has erected this behemoth statue of Guan Yu, a warrior god:

siewwy84/Adobe StockThe opposite of a miniature.

Designed by Han Meilin, creator of those 2008 Olympic mascots that look like rejected Pikachu drafts, the 157-foot-tall, 1,320-ton Guan Yu stands atop a 33-foot-tall warship which houses a cultural museum, looking over the city of Jingzhou like he's expecting a Godzilla attack any minute now.

He's depicted wielding his legendary massive halberd, the "Green Dragon Crescent Blade," and it's becoming increasingly clear why Asian action movies name everything better.

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There Are A Lot Of Two-dimensional Skyscrapers

There's minimalism, and then there's this:

Someformofhuman/Wiki CommonsWhat a real estate agent would call "cozy."