Outsider Architecture in the United States

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in rural Ohio.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.