10 Amazing Yet Unusual Christmas Trees For This Holiday Season

How often do you come across unusual Christmas trees made out glass, paper and even legos? Quite rarely for sure! They lend an otherworldly feel to Christmas, often with a tinge of awe. These sights from around the globe will definitely make your holidays more joyful:

Unusual Christmas trees around the world:

The Floating Christmas Tree of Rio De Janiero

Every Christmas in the festive city of Rio De Janiero, a 280 ft (approx) floating Christmas tree glides around Lake Rodrigo de Freitas. Accompanied by fireworks, galas and other festivities, witnessing this colourful light display is magical beyond words!

The floating Christmas tree of Rio de Janeiro (Pic Courtesy: Leandro Neumann Ciuffo – Flickr)

Pic Courtesy: Alobos Life – Flickr

Galeries Lafayette’s Christmas tree in Paris

Every year, the Galeries Lafayette, an iconic department store in Paris, erects a one-of-a-kind tree which is unique and playful. This year, the theme revolves around embracing your inner child and the tree looks like this:

Upsidedown Christmas Tree – Pic Courtesy: Flickr – Gzen92 and J.hagelüken

Pic Courtesy: Alljengi – Flickr

The Christmas tree at Al-Amin Mosque in Beirut, Lebanon

The capital city of Lebanon, Beirut comes into unified secular glory on the premises of the Al-Amin underneath this present-filled Christmas tree:

 Jbeil’s holiday tree at Byblos, Lebanon

Lebanon amazes us again and again every year with some of these very unsual Christmas trees:

Christmas tree at Puerta del sol, Spain

The cultural artists of Madrid show their flair every year over this illuminated wire tree, bringing thousands of tourists to the city of Puerta del sol.

Macaron Christmas tree

There’s nothing more bizzare, but oddly tempting, as a tree made up entirely of macarons! The Takashimaya shopping center in Singapore hosted one such tree:

Macaron Christmas Tree at Takashimaya Center (Pic Courtesy: Choo Yut Shing – Flickr)

A similar macaroon tree was put up for Christmas display at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Disney Christmas tree in London

The St. Pancras Station in London hosted a 45 ft stuffed toy-filled tree with over 2000 mickey mouses, plutos and droopeys. All these toys were later donated to children after Christmas season.

Piazza Castello’s LED Christmas tree, Turin, Italy

This huge metal tree is emblazed with thousands of lightworks, making it a figure of admiration all throughout Italy.

Pic Courtesy: Eugenio Vota – Flickr

LED Christmas tree at Universal Studios, Osaka in Japan

This vibrant display of lights change every year flashing a celebratory Christmas spirit:

Pic Couresty: Jun-Mao Chang – Flickr

Lego Christmas Trees

Our love for legos don’t stop at just playing with them! Today, they’ve become a part of our Christmases in a very special way. London’s lego tree:

Pic Courtesy: Melizza – Flickr

Pic Courtesy: Søren Øxenhave – Flickr

Pic Courtesy: JLK_254 – Flickr

Auckland’s lego tree:

Pic Courtesy: Tony Hisgett – Flickr

And that sums up our list of the world’s most unusual Christmas trees! Give us a thumbs up on social media if you liked this article!

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