Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

One man's fascination with Turkey led to this backyard mini-city.

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.