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A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

A slingshot from this delightful collection is awarded each year to someone who has "pulled metaphorical slings in favor of the weak and marginalized."

Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.

This enormous storm barrier is one of the largest moving structures on Earth, with each arm taller than the Washington Monument.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.