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Dolphin shaped pool
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Airplane shaped swimming pool
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Guitar shaped pool
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Florida shaped pool at Cypress Gardens
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Appeared in the 1953 Esther Williams film "Easy To Love"

World's Largest Swimming Pool
DonMartini (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: DonMartini.
Construction of the world's largest crystal-clear seawater lagoon has been successfully completed. Upon execution of the last expansion stage, this lagoon –San Alfonso's signature amenity- has reached its final size, i.e., over one kilometer long, 8 hectares in surface and 2.5 million liters of water. Too big to picture? Let's put it this way: the size of the lagoon is equivalent to 6,000 regular, 8-meter long swimming pools.
Yet, size being as impressive as it is, the lagoon's highlight is the crystal-clear, tropical blue color of its water attained through leading-edge technology developed by Crystal Lagoons* , that allows to harvest, filter and permanently recirculate ocean water. Yet, there's more to it. Water temperature in summer is 26ºC , nine degrees warmer than the ocean and certainly, a characteristic all our guests appreciate.
Accordingly, San Alfonso offers the amazing experience of enjoying the Caribbean ocean in Chile 's seaside.

Pool with Batman logo
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.

Texas shaped Wave Pool
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.
Six Flags Fiesta Texas already has it's own entry, but I thought that this pool was cool enough to deserve one as well.

Texas shaped pool
milwhcky (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: milwhcky.
Just outside of the Texas Motor Speedway

Texas shaped swimming pool
At the Riverside Place Apartments

Small Texas shaped pool
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.
At a place called The Big Texan. More info link that was given does not currently work. Hopefully it'll come back.

Oklahoma shaped swimming pool
At the Governor's Mansion

California shaped pool
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.

Saudi Arabia / East Africa shaped pool
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
From GE Forums
The "Umm al-Mahare Mosque [meaning "Mother of All Battles Mosque"] on the outskirts of Baghdad has four outer minarets, shaped like Kalashkinov assault rifles, and four inner minarets shaped like Scud missiles. The surrounding reflecting pool is shaped like the Arab world. The mosque also featured a Koran written in Saddam's blood (28 liters, said to have been donated over two years). The "Al-Rahman Mosque" [meaning "the most merciful"] featured no fewer than 14 domes, and was schedule to be completed in 2004. The "Saddam the Great Mosque" was a construction site with skeletal columns, and was schedule to be completed in 2015.

Pool in the shape of the Port of Nagoya
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.

Heart-Shaped Swimming Pool
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.

Heart shaped pool
At Caesar's Cove Haven resort for couples.

Heart Shaped Pool
jdubble07 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jdubble07.

House with a heart-and-arrow-shaped pool
Alephs (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Alephs.

Hand-shaped pool
hhgygy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: hhgygy.

Boot-shaped swimming pool
This boot-shaped swimming pool was built for Clayton Williams, Jr. The successful businessman worked in the Texas oil and natural gas industries and ran for governor in 1990.
The pool briefly appeared in the closing credits of the 1985 film National Lampoon's European Vacation.

Airplane shaped pool
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.
At Flying W Airport and Ranch

Airplane Shaped Pool at Hesperia Airport
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.

Airplane shaped pool

Fish shaped swimming pool at Paradise Bay Resort Hotel
cmike77 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: cmike77.

Fish shaped pool
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

Fish Pool
AKpilotEMT (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AKpilotEMT.
Three pools, one clearly looks like a fish or a whale. What reason is there for these pools here? Makes no sense to me. I can't tell if they're even pools of some sort and filled with water.

Dolphin-shaped pool
hhgygy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: hhgygy.

Whale shaped pool
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

Baseball bat shaped pool
At the Francisco Grande Hotel and Golf Resort.
The San Francisco Giants baseball team used this site for spring training from 1962-1981. The California Angels used this site for spring training from 1982-84.

Baseball Field Pool
grbaseball (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: grbaseball.
Residential pool shaped like a baseball field.

Tennis Racket shaped pool

Bowling pin shaped pool
At Disney's Pop Century Resort

Bottle-Shaped Pool
scalpod (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: scalpod.
Google Earth historical imagery only. Use GE icon or link below, and set time slider to 12/2002.

Big swimming pool with its own island

Swimming pool with scimitar shape
fatlox (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: fatlox.
A swimming pool with scimitar shape. It's the trademark of a butcher shop in Italy and this is his house!

Piano shaped pool
At the All-Star Music Resort.

Stradivarius violin shaped swimming pool
Satellite imagery does not do this pool justice. Check out the link below for some photographs showing the amazing detail on the design of this award winning pool.
Jay Dweck wanted a pool for his back yard, but local zoning restrictions limited the total size allowed. He wanted it long enough to swim laps, so he started drawing narrow shaped designs that would fit the bill. He then realized his design was similar to a violin, an instrument he himself played. The design was modified to replicate a 1700's era Stradivarius. The project was completed by Cipriano Custom Pools and Landscaping.
The pool features 5,600 strands of fiber optic lights and 440,000 pieces of glass tile. The chin rest of the violin is a spa, and the bow is two separate koi ponds.
Dweck is a former executive at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. In 2015, he was hired by Arxis Capital.

Guitar Shaped Pool
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.

Guitar shaped pool
At the All-Star Music resort.

Guitar Shaped Pool

Guitar Shaped Swimming Pool
jdubble07 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jdubble07.

Guitar Shaped Pool
mikeb9991 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mikeb9991.

Guitar shaped pool

At the Sundance Park Motel (previously known as the Alandale Motor Inn & Function Centre).

The Joule's Hanging Pool
LancelotLink (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: LancelotLink.

Hilton Hotel hanging pool
A rooftop pool at this Hilton Hotel has a section that hangs over the roof. The end of the pool has a clear window giving swimmers a view of the Waitemata Harbour.

Adelphi Hotel hanging pool
A rooftop lap pool of the Adelphi Hotel has a small section that hangs over the edge. The clear bottom of the overhang gives swimmers a view of the street below. The hotel went out of business in February 2013.

Infinity edge pool
An infinity edge pool (also named negative edge, zero edge, infinity pool, disappearing edge, or vanishing edge pool) is a swimming or reflecting pool that produces a visual effect of water extending to the horizon, vanishing, or extending to "infinity." The term also is used to describe perimeter overflow pools (pools that may be on level parcels, wherein the water flows over one or more edges, usually flush with the decking elevation). One type of location in which the effect is particularly impressive is where the infinity edge appears to merge with a larger body of water such as the ocean, or with the sky (if the pool is located on the side of a hill or field of green).
Infinity edge pools are often seen at exotic resorts and exclusive estates, in advertisements and in other luxurious places. The infinity pool design concept is said to have originated in France, where one of the first vanishing edge designs was utilized in the "Stag Fountain" at the Palace of Versailles in the early 1600s.

Duck shaped pool

Buffalo shaped pool
At Buffalo Bills Casino

Mickey Mouse Pool
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.

Minnie's pool
Dinick (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dinick.

Boxing Glove Shaped Pool
sdfrontier4x4 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: sdfrontier4x4.
Archie Moore's old house