Outsider Art

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

One man's fascination with Turkey led to this backyard mini-city.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

The pieces in this sculpture garden are made from demolished buildings that were once landmarks of Motor City.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

This huge 12-foot concrete moose on the coast of Nova Scotia is the grandest of the sculptor's giant creatures.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.

An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.