[lloeki]

Tell that to the people that decided that Strasbourg should have a cathedral: the whole area is a freaking swamp (water table + sand and clay). Not to fret, they punched 15cm x 1.5m tree trunks into the ground, as if you were standing on a thousand toothpicks.

Local myth has it that the second spire wasn't build because it would topple over.

Probably many more examples like this one exist. "I don't care. Figure it out. You're the expert."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg