Outsider Art

Knitting isn't just for grandmothers and counterculture isn't just for punks.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

Lifelike statue of the Chinese philosopher in the bathtub.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

Bizarrely-painted church designed by a controversial artist.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

Eccentric sculpture garden brings Basque mythology to life.

Landmark dedicated to the plight of the American Indian in the 21st century.

An open-air gallery and garden in North Lebanon with plans to continue growing.

Open air sculptures by an eccentric and loin-clothed hermit.

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

100-windowed castle turned art gallery, built by one dedicated mason.