50 Strange Buildings of the World By Village Mayor Sep 4th, 2008 50 Strange Buildings of the World | Village Of Joy 1. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland) Construction of the building started in in January 2003 and in December 2003 it was finished. House architecture is based on Jan Marcin Szancer (famous Polish artist and child books illustrator) and Per Dahlberg (Swedish painter living in Sopot) pictures and paintings. ...................continued 50 Strange Buildings of the World | Village Of Joy They look quite neat!!