8 Eerie Works Of Architecture

8. Matrimandir Meditation Center. Auroville - India

It looks like a doomsday device. Churches, temples, religious sites on the whole tend to have a unique quality to them but they do usually have the decency to look like a church or a temple. Maybe because of its modern design or perhaps because no organised religion or belief claims ownership of the Matrimandir, it looks more like a giant gold apocalypse engine than a place of spiritual importance.

Designed by a spiritual leader named “The Mother” and located in a large open space called “Peace”, the golden globe of gaudy glory does give off some foreboding vibes by just how relaxing and inoffensive it actually is; all of this despite looking like a Mr T brand Death Star.

This site is really the equivalent of a city dweller going to the country for the first time, the locals are doing nothing wrong by making eye contact and saying hello, but the hard edges of metropolitan life lead you to the conclusion that they're conspiring to trap you in a large wicker man. So maybe it's eerie because Western society is cynical.