This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

A museum dedicated to the former country.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

This mysterious complex of abandoned yurts and fading murals was meant to be a center of science and spirituality in Kyrgyzstan.

The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

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

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

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

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.