In 2008, UNESCO dubbed China’s Hakka Houses as an official World Heritage Site, noting the historic, cultural and architectural value of these amazing structures.  Constructed from the 12th century up through the 20th, these buildings housed up to 800 people each, a city within a city that provided it’s inhabitants with safety, shelter and community.  Also known as Fujian Tulou, there are 20,000 of these structures across the Fujian province of China, a large section of coastal China across the sea from Taiwan.
The Fujian Tolou are an important part of this province’s history, as these buildings were designed to protect their inhabitants from roaming bandits and warlords.  The typical tulou is a three to five story structure comprised of a thick earthen wall (up to six feet thick in most cases) with a single entrance that was protected by a 4″ thick solid wooden door and an iron gate.  At the roof level, the tulou were dotted with gun holes to ward off attacking intruders...

Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, also known as Ferrari Experience, is an upcoming theme park on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. It is the first theme park designed around the Ferrari brand and will feature a racetrack, theater complex, miscellaneous driving activities, and three thrill rides. Thetheme park will open its doors in 2010.
The Ferrari theme park will be covered with its red roof which had been inspired by the classic double curve side profile of the Ferrari GT body.
The theme park covers a surface area of 200,000 meter square, which is equally 2.15 million square feet and measuring an astonishing 66 meters or 217 feet in diameter...

These pics facinated me when I saw the for the firts time, I realized that they don't just look like something out of a fairy tale, but the experience on these surreal boats is nothing less than fantacy-like.
India is home to the unique houseboats called Kettuvalloms. These boats were the historic method for transporting rice and other trade through the aqeous centre of Kerala to the ports on the coast at Kollam, Aleppey and Cochin.
Original Kettuvalloms were recreated into houseboats and are now a major tourist attraction. A house boat is about 67 to 95 feet feet in length and has a width of around 13 feet to in the middle. The materials that go into the making are all local and eco friendly bamboo poles, wood, coconut fiber ropes, bamboo mats, coir carpets etc...