Outsider Architecture

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

Like something out of a bad acid trip, this Ukraine hallway has been covered in hallucinatory phantasmagoria.

This imposing modern citadel started out as a home renovation project.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

This miniature take on the Kremlin is one Dutch man's retirement project.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.