The Upside Down House

Baan Teelanka, better known to visitors as the Upside Down House, is a three-storey inverted house near Phuket Town built specifically as a photo attraction — you enter through what would normally be the roof and walk down through fully furnished rooms fixed to the ceiling. It opened in 2014 and has run continuously since, with a hedge maze and an escape room added alongside the house itself.

Every room is staged for the camera: beds, sofas, dining tables, and even a toilet are bolted upside down, with props arranged so a photo taken from the right angle makes it look like gravity has been switched off. The kitchen and living room get the most attention from photographers, since pots, pans and electronics hanging overhead read clearly in a still shot. It’s a short walk through — most of the time here goes into lining up photos, not moving through space.

Next door, the 1,000-square-metre hedge maze (designed by British maze specialist Adrian Fisher) and an on-site escape room are both included in a single ticket, giving the visit more range than the house alone would offer. It works well as a family stop: children generally enjoy the disorienting photo ops as much as adults do, though the escape room is better suited to older kids who can follow written clues.

Insider Tip: Go on a weekday morning. Weekends and school holidays bring tour groups through in waves, and getting an empty-looking shot in the small rooms takes patience once a queue builds up.

Watch out: This is a straightforward photo-op attraction, not a museum or historical site — go in expecting novelty and Instagram material rather than depth.

The site sits around 10km north of Phuket Town in the Ko Kaeo area, off the main roads connecting the airport corridor to town. There’s no public transport link, so plan on a rental car, taxi, or ride-hail app.