If you've been around the block a few times, chances are you've seen quite a few kinds of windows - but probably not all on the same building - with living trees sprouting from between them, no less! Well, if that's something you'd like to take a gander at, head on over to the Kunst Haus Wien Museum in Vienna, Austria.

The odd museum, which houses the work of artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser, is characterized by its bumpy, mosaic-lined facade, irregular floor, and "tree tenants" that grow right out of it!

“Some people say houses consist of walls. I say houses consist of windows. The repetition of identical windows next to each other and above each other as in a grid system is a characteristic of concentration camps. Windows in rank and file are sad, windows should be able to dance,” Friedensreich Hundertwasser once said. So when he designed Kunst Haus Wien, he made sure he practiced what he preached - each window is a different color, size, shape or type, making the facade of the building a mismatched quilt that somehow seems to work.

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