Hang Nga Crazy Hotel Traval in Dalat City

A free-wheeling architectural exploration of surrealism, Hang Nga Crazy House is a joyously designed, insanely creative personal home. Picture sculptured spaces linked by super-slim bridges increasing out of a tangle of greenery, an excess of cascading lava-flow-like shapes, wild colours, spiderweb windows and a practically natural quality to all of it, with the stroking hand rails appearing like jungle vines. Think Gaudi conference Tolkien and dropping acid together.

The creation of owner Mrs Dang Viet Nga, the Crazy House has been a creative work in progress given that 1990. Hang Nga, as she's known locally, has a PhD in architecture from Moscow and has designed a variety of other structures around Dalat. Among her earlier masterpieces, the 'House with 100 Roofs', was torn down as a fire danger since the People's Committee believed it looked antisocialist.

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Hang Nga started the Crazy House task to attract people back to nature, and though it's ending up being more extravagant every year, she's not most likely to have anymore problem with the authorities. Her daddy, Truong Chinh, was Ho Chi Minh's successor, serving as Vietnam's 2nd president from 1981 until his death in 1988. There's a shrine to him in the ground-floor lounge.

A note of care for those with young kids: the Crazy House's maze of precarious tunnels, high walkways with low guard rails and high ladders are definitely not youngster safe.