Nail Houses: Holdouts Developers Couldn't Touch

A newly-built road had to be diverted around this apartment building in Zhejiang province via the Guardian. In quickly-developing China, the term dingzihu or 'nail house' refers to a house or other structure whose owners bravely (or stubbornly, depending how you look at it) held on to their homes as the landscape changed around them -- they stick out like the head of a nail.