Six funny buildings

The Basket Building The Longaberger Company, based in the Ohio town of Newark in the US, makes traditional woven baskets. So there was only one thing their new HQ could look like Photograph: Kiichiro Sato/AP Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Crooked House This house in Sopot, a seaside town in Poland, opened in 2004, and is now said to be the most photographed building in the country Photograph: Alamy Photograph: guardian.co.uk Luxor Hotel and Casino This 350ft-high pyramid in Las ­Vegas was built by an army of 1,000 Photograph: B.S.P.I./CORBIS Photograph: guardian.co.uk Hotel Inntel, Zaandam Netherlands Part of a new development of traditional streets lined with neo-traditional buildings, the hotel cost €15m (£13.4m) to build. Read more Photograph: Roel Backaert Photograph: guardian.co.uk House in the Clouds Built as a water tower for the ­Thorpeness holiday village in ­Suffolk in the 1920s, this now serves as a highly unusual holiday home Photograph: Eamonn McCabe Photograph: guardian.co.uk WonderWorks It’s as if a passing giant toppled this 19th-century neoclassical US courthouse over. The detailing on this gateway to the WonderWorks theme park, in the town of Pigeon Forge in Tennessee, is immensely enjoyable, right down to the inverted streetlamps and palm trees Photograph: Design Pics Inc/Rex Features Photograph: guardian.co.uk