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An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

It's a tiny roadside universe of welded folk-art creatures built by one man who turned farm-repair welding into an imaginative anything goes sculpture garden that you stumble upon by accident and walk away remembering.

Abandoned 37.5' diameter rusted metal sphere sitting in the woods.

A former mill turned into a world of curiosity and everyday objects.

A sandstone canyon wilderness with a history of outlaws, mysterious disappearances, and a UFO encounter.

A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.

A sculpture of a courtesan towers above Lake Constance, recalling a church scandal.

Visitors can tour this retired East German jetliner, and even get married inside.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

Abandoned substation turned village treasure.

This village in Bohemian Switzerland hosts more than 300 wood carvings inspired by fairytales, folklore, and other oddities, as well as a series of Communist-era tanks

An abandoned piece of phallic art repurposed by locals into a makeshift fertility shrine.

A stream flows near the radioactive spa, where people place handmade miniatures of water mills and other strange devices.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

The physical legacy of one man’s lifetime mission, following a near-fatal mine accident, to publicly proselytize for Christianity.

Disturbing works of outsider art, carved from whole logs.

Before building her own tombstone, an untrained artist created a concrete menagerie in her garden.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

Organisms normally seen under a microscope decorate this church.

A whimsical roadside community of little metal people.