A new "hobbit" species of human was found in the remote Indonesian cave of Liang Bua. This limestone cave has yielded some of the most important finds in modern anthropology. The remains of two... »

Cultures and Civilizations , Lost Tribes, Architectural Oddities, Follies and Grottoes | Edited by bradenh83 and Nicholas Jackson

In the mid 1920s, Bert Vaughn, a hotel owner in nearby Jacumba, built a four story tall tower in the empty Anza Borrego desert to "commemorate the pioneers and road and railroad builders who... »

Follies and Grottoes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by re_nakaba and Dylan

In 1835, James Newlove was digging a duck pond when his shovel broke through the ground into some kind of underground opening. Lowering his son into the cave, he quickly realized that this was... »

Mystery Spots and Gravity Hills, Curious Places of Worship, Follies and Grottoes, Subterranean Sites | Edited by A Facebook user and Dylan

An artwork by Nancy Holt, completed in 1976, consisting of four large concrete tubes, is laid out in the desert in an open X configuration. While the nine foot diameter, 18 foot long "tunnels"... »

Follies and Grottoes | Edited by A Facebook user and Dylan

Though the hotel is shaped like a volcano, spews water from its top, has a cable bridge leading to its front door, and often has an fantastic covering of moss and plant life making it look like a... »

Commercial Curiosities, Odd Accommodations, Architectural Oddities, Follies and Grottoes | Edited by Dylan

If you are a iron-fisted despot, or terrorist organization, what do you get another tyrannical dictator as a gift? It would seem, judging from North Korea's "International Friendship Exhibition... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy, Cultures and Civilizations , Rites and Rituals, Follies and Grottoes | Edited by Dylan

Situated on Lookout Mountain in Northern Georgia, Rock City is a place of intense natural beauty which, over time, was systematically transformed into what is one of the single greatest example of... »

Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues, Follies and Grottoes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by A Facebook user and Dylan

The town of Gaiman, Argentina customarily appears in tour guides as a living example of Welsh colonization of the Chubut river valley in the late 19th century. Replete with tea houses,... »

Outsider Art, Follies and Grottoes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by A Facebook user and Dylan

In Escondido, California stands a mosaic garden of sculptures, snake walls and totems symbolizing mythic figures related to California's history by artist Niki de Saint Phalle. In planning the... »

Follies and Grottoes | Edited by A Facebook user and Dylan

Built in 1589 to hold the art and fossils collection of the Borromeo Visconti Litta, the Ninfeo ("nymphs' cave") is an architectural oddity standing in the middle of a small park, separated from... »

Follies and Grottoes | Edited by Annetta