12. A “Nail House”

Houses stand firm amidst construction and development.

This is a photo of a “nail house” in the middle of a new highway in Wenling, China. A dingzhu—or “nail house”, also technically known as a holdout, is a property of a resident who refused to accept the compensation for its demolition, The Guardian explained. Many Chinese residents do not accept the government’s monetary offer to make way for new construction because they consider the sum to be too low. This forces the builders to intricately construct their way around it, leaving it behind as an eyesore and a bother. Being an eyesore aside, it actually looks pretty interesting.

13. The longest traffic jam in history

Drivers experience a 12-day traffic on an expressway.

Vehicles queue at a checkpoint on the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway as shown in an aerial footage of the 62-mile traffic jam that lasted over 12 days, Mirrors reported. This happened to the poor folks attempting to traverse the Beijing-Tibet expressways. Northern China, including Beijing, was even put into a smog alert because over 750 million vehicles went on a holiday during the Golden Week. Starving drivers who got stuck in the traffic had to pay ripped off prices for goods—2 yuan ($0.3) for an egg, 3 yuan ($0.4) for a cup of water, and $8 for a cigarette packet.