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Rimini, Italy
House of the Shells
One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cosmic Moose and Grizzly Bear’s Ville
One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.
Hamilton, Ohio
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park
Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.
Permanently Closed
Pierre Part, Louisiana
Cypress Swamp Driftwood Family Museum
This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.
Cody, Wyoming
Smith Mansion
One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.
Arcola, Illinois
Hippie Memorial
This folk art wall claims to be the world's one and only memorial to the bygone age of hippies.
Seattle, Washington
Bettie Page House
What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!
Columbia, Missouri
BoatHenge
Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.
Saguenay, Québec
Arthur Villeneuve House
After he picked up a brush at the age of 47 this simple barber turned his entire home into a canvas.
outsider art
100 Wonders: The Park Of Monsters
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Margaret's Grocery and Market
A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."
Brighton, England
Brighton Beach Flint Grotto
One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.
Winkel, Netherlands
Kremlin of the Netherlands
This miniature take on the Kremlin is one Dutch man's retirement project.
Permanently Closed
Amarillo, Texas
VW Slug Bug Ranch
A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.
Palmyra, Tennessee
E.T. Wickham Sculpture Trail
Crumbling Kennedys and a decaying Tecumseh are just some of the haunting remains of one man's cement art trail.
Boiceville, New York
Steve Heller's Fabulous Furniture (and Sculpture Garden)
Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Pueblo Montaño Chainsaw Sculpture Garden
When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Metelkova
This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.
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