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Great Stalacpipe Organ

Luray, Virginia

Deep inside Luray Caverns, an organ console sends electronic mallets across acres of cave to strike tuned stalactites and turn the cavern itself into a musical…

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Wisconsin Concrete Park

Phillips, Wisconsin

A retired lumberjack covered a property with 237 concrete figures built from wire, broken glass, bottles, found objects, and an apparently unlimited supply of determination.

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Longaberger Basket Building

Newark, Ohio

A seven-story office building was constructed as a colossal replica of a Longaberger market basket, complete with enormous handles arching over the roof.

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Earthship Biotecture Visitor Center

Tres Piedras, New Mexico

Off-grid homes made from tires and bottles rise from the high-desert mesa.

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Al Johnson’s Goats on the Roof

Sister Bay, Wisconsin

A Door County restaurant has a real grass roof, and during the warmer months real goats climb onto it to graze above customers eating below.

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Pasaquan

Buena Vista, Georgia

A seven-acre visionary art compound glows with concrete totems, painted walls, and a private cosmic religion.

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Williamson Coal House

Williamson, West Virginia

This downtown building is not merely about coal. Its exterior walls and pillars were constructed from roughly 65 tons of bituminous coal cut into blocks like…

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Mars Desert Research Station

Hanksville, Utah

In the Utah desert, crews live inside a white cylindrical habitat, wear simulated spacesuits, grow plants, drive rovers, and practice living on Mars without leaving Earth.

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Dick and Jane’s Spot

Ellensburg, Washington

A private Ellensburg home has spent decades growing a yard full of reflectors, bottle caps, bicycle wheels, carved heads, mosaics, whirligigs, and outsider art.