8 Real Places You Won't Believe Aren't Science Fiction

4. Sagrada Família

Sagrada Famillia
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The snappily named Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família is an unfinished church designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi.

The architects will tell you that it combines Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms, but to the rest of us, it looks like one of those weirdly organic hive dwellings you get in loads of sci-fi.

As if this wasn't actually woven by some kind of hyper-evolved race of termites, who create their nests by moulding a mixture of sand and saliva with their mandibles.

Actually, the Sagrada Família is technicallystill being woven by some kind of hyper-evolved race of termites as it isn't actually finished yet, and isn't predicted to be done until at least 2026.

This is what it will eventually look like.

 
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