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Located in Langkawi, Malaysia, the "Sky Bridge" is a "cable-stayed bridge supported by only one support column as it wraps its way around a mountain a whopping 2,250 feet above sea level." Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

completed in october 2004, the structure relies on an 87 metre high support column to hold the weight of the deck, this weight distributed through 8 load balancing cables attached to its head.

At first glance, this staircase may look like an optical illusion, but it's actually a "crazy roof extension in Rotterdam." Click here for first picture in gallery.

I'm wondering how they managed to get planning permission for the blue monstrosity, as it just doesn't look right on the outside. Frankly, it doesn't look right on the inside either

Bahrain's World Trade Center has just been equipped with three giant wind turbines that supply "10-15% of the energy for both towers." Click here for one more picture.

..what you're looking at is an actually photograph of the new Bahrain World Trade Center, a pair of pointy skyscrapers with three propellers with 95 foot diameters between them. And this week, they activated all three turbines at the same time

Designed by Jerome Olivet, the futuristic "Jet House" is supposed to "look like it's moving fast even though its smooth molded concrete structure is attached to a metallic building pad." Click here for first picture in gallery.

The Jet House has an elevator and two jet-car garage, where as the UFO house has a button activated stair case and a two normal-car garage

What sets the Gateshead Millennium Bridge apart from the others is that it "tilts to let ships pass under it instead of parting at the middle." Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

The Gateshead Millennium Bridge has two live webcams which overlook it from the north and south, and since its completion it's enjoyed status as a landmark, and will even appear on the back of British pound coins

UK-based Popularchitecture has proposed a 5,000 foot tall mega structure that will supposedly "house a million people in one go." Click here for first picture in gallery.

Apparently, by 2015 London will need to provide housing for a million more people. Just look at this thing! It's so big it'd require its own system of government, with the building split up into neighborhoods, villages, and super-districts that would have their own representatives

From afar, this may look like any other staircase, but upon closer inspection you'll see that it leads to nowhere and is actually a steel sculpture. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Proprietors of global accounting firm KPMG, whose office building in Munich hosts this circuitous route to nothingness, must have wanted to make a philosophical statement about the futility of social climbing

Unlike other homes, the "Penguin House" uses "the manipulation of light and space makes the Penguin House in Tokyo seem much larger." Video after the break.

Yes, to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower, the French will be adding a "webbed Kevlar observation deck to the top, doubling the size of the deck." Click here for first picture in gallery.

The addition isn't permanent — don't worry, purists — but will be simply bolted in place and easily removed later

No, it doesn't travel at warp speed, but what sets this UFO apart from the others is that you can actually live in it. Featuring "three floors, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, living room and scenic view." Click here for first picture in gallery.

UFO house, which has a single entry point via a button activated stair case, curved bar area and customized bathtub, as well as various UFO paneled controls throughout that are simply priceless, or so you would think