Weird Homes

A retired engineer builds a full size operating rail road in his backyard, and a California artist works non-stop expanding her home and yard with her creations.

Folk artists seem naturally to use their homes and yards as a canvas for art.

An amazing undertaker’s home built out of 600,000 embalming fluid bottles. A beer can house in Houston, Texas and Moore’s Junk Castle in Pullman, Washington.

The Button King in South Carolina has insomnia so he has taken to glue hundreds of thousands of buttons to his home, clothes and car.

In Bend, Oregon two delightful men have created a fantasy farm bursting with humour including a bowling ball garden and a love pond.

In Alabama, a religious fanatic litters his acreage with crosses and old refrigerators painted with surreal messages.

For some, pink flamingoes is just the start. A visit to the famous home of Violis Simpson whose place is surrounded by his amazing towering whirligigs.

A woman decorates with life-sized scarecrows, huge boulders and thousands of flowers.

An elderly farmer in Alberta enjoys life at his place he calls the ‘Nuthouse’, and for good reason…

Collecting is an obsession for some. ‘The House of Toys’ in Oakland, California is bursting with thousands of every toy you can imagine.

These folks look at junk with a very different eye. Remarkable recycled art from trash.

An artist creates life-sized robots, metal dogs and the odd cyclops to decorate their garden with.