Joe's Scarecrow Village isn't your average roadside attraction. It's creepy actually, if you don't know the history. And even if you stop at Joe's - and you will probably find it hard to resist... »

Unusual Monuments, Inspired Inventions, Outsider Architecture | Edited by kalizearmour and Nicholas Jackson

Known as keshwa chaca, this is the only remaining example of the Incan handwoven bridges once common in the Incan road system. Made of woven grass, the bridge spans 118 feet and hangs 220 feet... »

Architectural Oddities, Long Now Locations, Incredible Ruins, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan, Henry and others

At 150 feet wide by 50 feet tall, Salvation Mountain is really more of a painted mound. The mountain was created by Leonard Knight after his hot air balloon failed in this bleak patch of desert... »

Outsider Art, Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan, Clinton and 3 others

Pont basculant de la Seyne-sur-Mer is a 42 metres tall observation tower at Seyne-sur-Mer. However, in earlier days it was a moveable railway bridge allowing ships to pass the harbour entry.... »

Outsider Architecture | Edited by

Anlage 212 is the designation of the 110 kV powerline running from Sindelfingen substation to the Daimler-Benz car factory. In 1987, the first five pylons of the line were placed on top of the... »

Outsider Architecture | Edited by Nicholas Jackson and Dylan

Tucked away in the remote northwest corner of Iran is a village where residents live as modern-day cave dwellers. Current residents of Kandovan, a tourist village in the province of East... »

Geological Oddities, Curious Caves, Lost Tribes, Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by 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

Henninger Turm is one of the tallest silos in the world and very likely the only one with revolving restaurants on its top. Designed by Karl Lieser for Henninger brewery in Frankfurt and built... »

Outsider Architecture | Edited by Alpha, Annetta and 2 others

Built from a converted grain silo is the Kaatskill (spelled in the original Dutch way) Kaleidoscope, the world's largest at 60 feet. Designed by '60s psychedelic artist Isaac Abrams - whose... »

Retro-Tech, Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by A Facebook user, Dylan and others

Pylon 24 of the powerline connecting Watari and Kashiwabara substation is a 45 metres tall transmission tower carrying 12 conductors and 2 ground wires on 7 crossbars. It remembers to the Colossos... »

Outsider Architecture | Edited by Alpha