People celebrate the festive season worldwide through an assortment of weird and wonderful traditions, but the decoration of Christmas trees is fairly uniform… right? Wrong. From dinosaurs to recycled bottles, see our compilation of the world’s most unusual Christmas trees below. The tree above (number 1) is made of sand (© KonArt/iStock/Thinkstock).
2. At St. Pancras International Station in London there’s a Lego tree
3. In Rio de Janeiro there’s a floating tree
4. In Paris there’s a recycled bottle tree
5. In the USA there’s a spinning tree
6. In Lisbon there’s a hi-tech tree
7. In the American Museum of Natural History in New York there’s a dinosaur tree
8. In Albuquerque, New Mexico there’s a tree of wishes
9. In Amsterdam there’s an umbrella tree
10. In Nabana no Sato, Japan there’s a shimmering illumination tree
11. In Melbourne, Australia there’s a tree of stars
12. At this Christmas Fair there’s a tree made entirely of biscuits
13. In the Netherlands there’s a tree made of books
14. In Frankfurt there’s a tree shaped like a drill
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