You may remember the magical bus stop from the cult animation "My Neighbour Totoro" by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, complete with a lovable monster and heart-warming sharing of umbrellas (watch it here). Or you might enjoy listening to a great "sunshine pop" classic "Bus Stop" by The Hollies. In any case, you will be quite unprepared to see the wildly bizarre (or simply ridiculous) bus stop designs and "abandonments" that we feature in this article. You might even start your own photographic collection of similarly misshaped and misused public transportation enclaves.
As for some of the better-looking and creative bus stop designs... here are a few examples we like:

