3 discoveries
A 160-foot stone castle with a fire-breathing dragon and swaying iron bridges, hand-built by one stubborn man over 50 years in the Colorado mountains — free to climb.
A heartbroken Latvian immigrant single-handedly carved 1,100 tons of limestone into a castle of megalithic furniture — including a 9-ton gate a child can push open.
A hillside painted top to bottom in adobe and donated house paint — one man's 30-year folk-art love letter to the desert, near the Salton Sea.