A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

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

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

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

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

Famed architect Antoni Gaudi built this generous thank you gift to a friendly host who housed him during a job.

Salaguti's live-in museum: a fortress against criticism and consumer art.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

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

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

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

A village of art and exotic creations.

Grottoes, sculptures, and recycled ceramics permeate what was once just a small farm in France.

An urban laboratory.

Outsider Art Community.

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

A fortress-like granary that has been continually in use for more than nine centuries.

A 15th-century granary that played the role of futuristic slave quarters in the world of 'Star Wars.'

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.