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

Advertised as a nostalgic ride for grown-up Austrians, the Linz Grottobahn is a surreal 104-year-old Disney-esque ride through the world of European fairy tales. Built in 1906, the little... »

Follies and Grottoes | Edited by wythe

This odd little Norman-style stone tower overlooking Angel Island is all that remains of a Victorian-era plan for a health-obsessed Utopian village in Tiburon. A stone arch once spanned the street... »

Follies and Grottoes | Edited by Annetta and wythe

The six-story-tall, 17,000-square-foot Gold Pyramid House in Wadsworth, Illinois has to be one of the most bizarre homes ever constructed. Its builders, Jim and Linda Onan explain in three nouns... »

Architectural Oddities, Follies and Grottoes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan, Josh and 2 others

Pigeon Key has been abandoned twice: first by a devastating hurricane on Labor Day 1935 that killed the vast majority of its road - and railroad-building inhabitants, and again in 1982 when a new... »

Anomalous Islands, Ghost Towns, Follies and Grottoes, Incredible Ruins | Edited by littlebrumble

Constructed between 1593 and 1597, the Triangle Lodge was designed by Sir Thomas Tresham. Built as a monument to his Roman Catholic beliefs, Tresham revered the number three, representing the Holy... »

Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship, Follies and Grottoes | Edited by Clinton

Howard Finster was born into a family of thirteen in 1916. He attended school only through the sixth grade, by 13 years old was a born again Christian, and by 16 he was preaching. Finster claims... »

Follies and Grottoes | Edited by rickatyahoodotcom

Constructed over ten years on the site of a former handball court on the grounds of the Providence Home, the Geode Grotto was the idea of Father Phillip Ottavi, an Italian immigrant who was... »

Follies and Grottoes | Edited by Annetta

An invention of the Japanese sex industry 'Soaplands' are descended from Turkish water brothels, places where the hard-working Japanese salaryman can go to get himself soaped down by a young and... »

Watery Wonders, Follies and Grottoes, Incredible Ruins, Haikyo | Edited by michaeljohngrist

An 18-ft. tall troll made of cement clutchs an old VW car underneath this Seattle overpass. Made in the 1970s since that time the troll has had a rough go of it, and is often getting spraypainted,... »

Follies and Grottoes | Edited by Dylan