A church like no other. Again, from Atlas Obscura: "While Communist authorities eventually allowed a church to be built, they would not make any equipment or materials available for the building — which, in a centrally planned, state-run economy, posed a bit of a problem. Thus, the Lord’s Ark church was built by hand, with local residents mixing their own cement, making their own bricks, and gathering the roughly two million stones that comprise the church’s distinctive facade.

Designed to look like Noah’s Ark resting on Mount Ararat after the flood had finally receded (SYMBOLISM ALERT), the cornerstone for Lord’s Ark was laid in 1969 and the church was consecrated in 1977, both by Cardinal Karol Wojtyła, who later become Pope John Paul II." <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lords-ark" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.atlasobscura.com/places/lords-ark</a>