Places mary3moriarty Wants to Go

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A tree full of wishes and footwear.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.