India’s palace that asks: how’d they do it?
Lucknow, India, has one of the world's strangest man-made structures ever discovered.
A massive palace constructed in a maze format, the Bara Imambara has a pretty mesh of European and Arabic architecture and more than just a few secrets.
During the 1700's, a ruler named Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula created the complex, which displays the true force of human potential thanks to its gravity-defying ceiling.
"Bara Imambara's magnificent central arched hall – which stretches 50 meters long and about three stories high – is held up, amazingly, without any pillars, girders or beams," reports MSNBC Travel. "Instead, the hall was constructed solely with interlocking brickwork."
In addition, the palace's intense labyrinth of 1,000 stairway passages is incredibly complicated. Built to deter any possible invaders, many of the stairways drop off suddenly or end up as dead ends.
Travelers can explore the maze with a guide and also enter the nearby mosque and gardens.
While wandering around the gardens, visitors can enjoy the quiet solitude the natural surroundings afford. Or, if they choose to explore the arched hallway, they can consider how amazing of an engineering feat it took to build such a thing.
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