Places Parus radious Wants to Go

Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

A whimsical garden of outsider art in the Spanish countryside.

Numerous sculptures set along hiking trails symbolize and idealize the relationship between man and nature.

A Spanish artist builds his own castle.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

This miniature take on the Kremlin is one Dutch man's retirement project.

What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

A bizarre form of natural mummification was discovered in the church of this Frisian village.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

This taxidermilogical collection was assembled by a peltmonger turned animal activist.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.