Outsider Architecture

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

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

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

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

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

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

Exotic, erotic, and esoteric, one artist's live-in Bali gallery brings a splash of color and madness to its surroundings.

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

The Titanic sails again in one Scotland man's backyard.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

Beasts and branches swirl in sandstone carvings, interrupted by one strange creature.

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

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.