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Anderson, Indiana
The Hett Gallery and Museum
A collection of relics from the Spiritualist Camp Chesterfield.
Permanently Closed
Eastbourne, England
Musgrave Museum
The unusual private collection of modern-day renaissance man George Musgrave.
SăpĂ¢nÈ›a, Romania
The Merry Cemetery
A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.
General Levalle, Argentina
Pedro MartĂn Ureta's Forest Guitar
Guitar made of trees, dedicated to a man's lost love.
New Mexico
Ra Paulette's Hand-Carved Caves
One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.
Rome, Italy
The Martyr Murals at Santo Stefano Rotondo
Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.
Cincinnati, Ohio
American Sign Museum
Where beautiful signs live on forever.
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The Elaborate Healing Machines of Emery Blagdon
Parikkala, Finland
Veijo Rönkkönen Sculpture Garden
Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.
New York, New York
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.
Britt, Iowa
The Hobo Museum
An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.
Santa Cruz, California
Court of Mysteries
A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.
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Holywell, Wales
Duke of Lancaster
Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Playtower
A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.
Washington, D.C.
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly
Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.
Broken Hill, Australia
Broken Hill Sculpture Symposium
Twelve sculptures designed to make their best showing with the coming or going of the sun.
Winters, California
Stevenson Bridge
This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.
Iceland
SelĂ¡rdalur Valley
A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.
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