Aside from being the biggest bridge in the world, this new firebreathing Dragon Bridge is outfitted with a modern lighting system that includes 15,000 Philips LED lights that make it brilliantly change colors…but wait there’s more, cause firebreathing and a spectacular light show are boring…the dragon is also capable of releasing bursts of fire or sprays of water from its mouth.

The bridge is located in Da Nang, Vietnam and opened on March 29, the 38th anniversary of the liberation of Da Nang City, the 666 meter long, 37.5 meter wide bridge has six lanes for traffic and two pedestrian sidewalks.

In all, it cost $85 million to build, which seems like a small price to pay for the bragging rights of having a city with a bridge that breathes fire, spits out water and changes colors.

This is a rendering of a multi-storey penthouse in Monaco which is about to become the world’s most expensive property per square meter when it comes onto the market next year.

The Odeon Tower will soar a whopping 170m towards the sky, contain 70 luxury apartments…including an amazing 3,300 sq meter multi-story penthouse complete with private water slide and exclusive infinity pool.

The entire project is expected to be completed by July 2014, so start saving you money now.

This makes me want to go play Tropico 4. Tenements for the locals, luxury hotel on the beach for the tourists.

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The Atlantic is an 8.3 kilometer (5.2 miles) section of Country Road 64 which runs between the towns of Kristiansund and Molde, the two main population centres in the county of More og Romsdal in Fjord, Norway.

My motorcycle fantasy come to life.

Connecting with God requires a little peace and tranquility…but apparently it also requires complete isolation and a room with a view, an amazing view.
Constructed at mind boggling, dizzying heights on the sides of mountains, these impossibly built monasteries ensured only the most devoted – and vertigo-free – followers would join them for prayer.

Many of these monasteries were only accessible by steep and secret paths in order to provide the most seclusion as they sought uninterrupted spiritual awakening.

If you thought the pyramids in Egypt were an architectural marvel, take a look at the monastery on the side of Mt Huashan in China that dangles seemingly in defiance of the laws of physics.

Tired of the world… When can I move in?

The Taktshang Tiger’s Nest monastery clings to a cliff 2,300ft above the Paro Valley floor in Bhutan.

According to legend, the Tiger’s Nest takes its name from the ‘second Buddha’, Precious Guru Padmasambhava, who travelled to the site on a tiger.

The Sumela monastery in Turkey was created 386AD apparently after two priests discovered a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary in a cave on the mountain.

The Holy Trinity is part of the Meteora – which translates as ‘suspended in the air’.

The monasteries of Agios Nikolaos Anapafsas (left) and Agia Roussanou (right) in Greece.

French mountain climber Catherine Destivelle during her ascension of the Rocher Saint Esprit, in the Meteora, with the Monastery of Roussanou located on a parallel summit.

A man is hoisted 250ft in a net, the only way to access the Monastery of St Barlaam.

The Holy Holy Monastery of Saint Nicholas Anapausas in Meteora, Greece.

The ruins of the Sigiriya, or Lion’s Rock, in the central Matale District of Sri Lanka, which was used as a monastery from around the 5th Century BC.

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Slated for completion in 2016, the infinity pool will connect Sky Habitat Singapore’s two towers in a dramatic feat of engineering marvel.

Designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie, owners will also be able to traverse the two structures via sky bridges on the 14th and 26th floors.

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The enormous man-made pool, set along the coastline at Chile’s San Alfonso del Mar Resort, is larger than 20 Olympic-size pools and holds a whopping 66 million gallons of water.

Not only is the pool long, it’s a little deep – it holds the Guinness World Record for being the world’s deepest (115 feet). It took nearly five years to build and is said to have set developers back as much as $1.5 Billion (£1billion)… with up keep costs being a cool $3 million (£2 million) annually.

It uses a computer-controlled suction and filtration system to suck water in from the ocean at one end and pump it out at the other, while the sun warms it to 26C – nine degrees higher than the sea.

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The Sands Skypark with pool is built at the height of 200 meters. Its lush, landscaped gardens are home to 250 trees and 650 plants and offer a total of 12,400 square meters of space – thats big enough to fit three football fields.

Hotel guests have the exclusive use of a 150-meter infinity swimming pool, the world’s largest outdoor pool at that height. Then of course there is the view…day or night you are treated to what has to be one of the most spectacular views in the world, views of the South China Sea or Singapore skyline.

The 1.2 hectare Skypark, designed as a tropical oasis, is longer than the Eiffel tower is tall and large enough to park four-and- a-half A380 jumbo jets.

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Built in the western Austrian village of Terfens, the project is meant to serve as a new tourist attraction and great way of inducing positional vertigo.

The house is now open for public viewing.

Now to make things even more confusing…the same pictures upside down.

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The Kansas City Public Library in Missouri, USA and it is considered one of the most unusual buildings in America and in the world, at least their parking lot is.

The book spines, which measure approximately 25-feet by 9-feet, are made of a signboard mylar. The shell showcases 22 titles (can you name them all?) reflecting a wide variety of reading interests as suggested by Kansas City readers.

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What a fantastic if not completely terrifying idea. See much more of the residence on Home DSGN.

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