I found this
AWESOME website that features odd top ten lists, which I love. So I'm going to post my favorite ones on here.
1. World's Largest Swimming Pool
If you like doing laps in the
swimming pool, you might want to
stock up on the energy drinks before diving in to this one. It is more than 1,000 yards long, covers 20 acres, has a 115ft deep end and holds 66 million gallons of water. The Guinness Book of Records named the vast pool beside the sea in Chile as the biggest in the world. This pool took five years to build, cost nearly £1billion and the annual maintenance bill will be £2million. Its
turquoise waters are so crystal clear that you can see the bottom even in the deep end. It dwarfs the world's second biggest pool, the Orthlieb, nicknamed the Big Splash, in Morocco, which is a mere 150 yards long and 100 yards wide. An Olympic size pool measures some 50 yards by 25 yards.
2. Devil's Pool
Victoria Falls is on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is 360 feet tall. At the top is a natural rock pool, called Devil's Pool, where the water is relatively calm. From September to December, when the water level is low, you can swim in Devil's Pool. The pictures are bound to make you just a little nervous. Or a lot.
3. Hanging Pool
This architecturally-daring pool, designed by Architexas, sits atop The Joule
hotel in Dallas, Texas. Ten stories above the ground, the pool projects eight feet over the edge of the building and hangs directly above Main Street, giving dippers dazzling downtown views.
I want to go to that pool. I would love to swim in it. I want to swim in all of these pools, in case you didn't realize. I love swimming :)4. World's Largest Indoor Swimming Pool
“Ocean Dome”, located in Miyazaki, Japan, it's the biggest indoor swimming pool in the world. It's 300 meters long and 100 meters wide, and it's located 500 meter from the sea. The temperature inside the pavilion is always around 30 degrees, the roof is sky-blue and it has even “clouds”. It has an artificial volcano and also an artificial wave generation system.
Indoor pools are not my favorite, but I would still go because this pool is pretty dang awesome.5. World's Most Crowded Wave Pool
Don't believe the photo above? This incredibly crowded wave pool is located in Tokyo Summerland. During summer, it can get really hard to actually find some water inside this pool.
Video of wave pool in action6. Blood Red Pool
The island of Koh Samui's infamous Chaweng Beach is littered with hotels, but none of them comes close to the Library in terms of that all-out beach bliss-out factor. This elegant and modern boutique hotel is most remarkable for its amazing blood-red pool and the tall trees that seem to grow in, around and through the building. The aforementioned red pool serves as the focal point, with daybeds, Thai antiques, and an open air mini-library.
This is so cool! I want to swim in it so bad. I just don't want my skin to turn red! :)7. Playboy's Swimming Pool
The new Hugh Hefner Sky Villa at the Palms Las Vegas includes this Playboy pool at the top of the tower. The swimming pool is inside and the
whirlpool is outside, both with amazing views of the Strip. The swimming pool covers two acres, with a DJ, outdoor concerts, three bars and twenty-seven private cabanas with a 32" flat-screen TV, refrigerator and fan.
Okay, I used to want to be a cocktail waitress at the Playboy club in this hotel, so obviously I want to swim in this pool. 8. World's Deepest Indoor Swimming Pool
The Nemo 33 diving pool in Belgium is, oddly enough, over 33 meters deep. It is filled with 2,500,000 liters of non-chlorinated, highly filtered
spring water maintained at 30 °C (86 °F) and contains several simulated underwater caves at the 10 m depth level. There are numerous underwater windows that allow outside visitors to look into the pools at various depths.
What the heck?! How come I never knew about this? I want to scuba dive in this. Anyone care to join me?9. The Global Warming Swimming Pool
No, New York is not underwater (yet, anyhow) – that's a clever ad for HSBC by Ogilvy & Mather Mumbai
ad agency in India. The bank wanted to raise awareness of the dangers of global warming, so the clever ad guys glued an aerial photo of a city's skyscrapers to the base of a swimming pool… the effect of a submerged cityscape is fantastic!
This one is pretty cool too. I would love to swim in that. It's gotta look way cool in real life.10. Infinity Indoor Pool
This is a cool infinity pool that looks out over a breathtaking skyline from several stories up. This is definitely a great place to enjoy the sunset at the Crown Towers Hotel in Taipa Island Macau. I love this too. Just because it looks so cool. Looks like I have a whole bunch of new vacations to go on!
What ones are your favorites? My favorite is the Nemo 33.
Comments (58)
The Belgium diving pool looks amazing!
i'd love to go swimming in all of these pools..
...if i knew how to swim. and if i wasn't so ^*!$#ing afraid of drowning.
These are amazing.
(stripping) Time for a swimmmmm!! (jumps into pool)
Pretty sure we've already had an entry like this.
The new additions are interesting though.
the largest swimming pool..thats so crazzy!!
I love the sea and pools but that pool no.5 Most crowded pool is just plain crazy.
These were very interesting, amazing! I like the first two the best I think.
ahhh I love swimming SO much :) I think I like the first pool the most..that'd be like an ocean you'd be swimming in :)
There is one in Hawaii that is a series of pools connected by slides and at the bottom is the only WATER ELEVATOR that brings you to the top! I'm surprised thats not on here! I want to go to that one!
wow these all look amazing!
they are all pretty cool except the crowded one!
I like every single one except the crowded one. They're all amazing.
Everything is cool except Tokyo Summerland. haha
Was this from oddee.com?
I love that site so much, it's so fascinating.
Theres's nothing bigger than Mother Earth's swimming pool; the ocean. The crowded wave pool is too dangrous for my taste. What if someone wanted to get out or to breathe? Scary.
Same here, i don't like the crowded one...but all the others are awesome! I want to swim in them too, because swimming is awesome, and it sucks that most pools are only open during the summer (swimming deprived!!) ! Too bad i can't travel...T_T (yet)...
I want to build my own swimming pool like that someday..maybe..if i have money XD
Somebody could get murdered in the blood-red pool and nobody would notice for a long time :O
5. World's Most Crowded Wave Pool
eww why doesn't someone just pee directly on you?
SWIMMING IS AMAZING <3<3<3
I think that I'm going to bookmark this page and make it a goal to visit all of these pools...
The deep one is JUST the kind of thing I've been imagining! I HAVE to swim in it!
The big one is awesome, the hanging one is far out, the blood red one is crazy, the hanging one is amazing...I think it's time for a pool swimming trip around the world.
except for....
The 'Devil's pool' is frightening, and it is psychotic that they've got a child in there.
I'd be afraid to swim in any of those pools.
But I will admit, that they are a sight to see!
i like the largest pool the best. the global warming one was a good idea! the wading pool made me laugh and the infinity pool was the prettiest. I would swim in all of these, esp. the devil's pool, sounds like fun!
i miss summer :(
wave pools = gross. theres probably more pee then water.
They're pretty much amazing, but looking at them kind of scares me, especially the deepest one. I have a fear of drowning, and unfortunately I don't know how to swim either -_-