Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

The only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure in the architect's hometown.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

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

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

A tribute to the twin ideals of religion and patriotism, built by a Catholic priest from rocks, glass, and innumerable found items.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

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

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.