Havana, Cuba
Fusterlandia
A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.
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Havana, Cuba
A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.
Houston, Texas
One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.
Berlin, Germany
A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.
Green Gables, Prince Edward Island
Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.
Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands
This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.
Los Angeles, California
Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."
Atlanta, Georgia
Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.
Hauterives, France
This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.
Columbia, Maryland
A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.
Malakwa, British Columbia
An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.
Turner, Oregon
This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.
Wattens, Austria
Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.
Lyon, France
Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.
Hamburg, New Jersey
Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.
Oakland, California
This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.
Moscow, Russia
Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.
Chicago, Illinois
A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.
Hamilton Township, New Jersey
A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Santa Clarita, California
No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.