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A visionary environment or fantasy world is a large artistic installation, often on the scale of a building or sculpture parks, intended to express a vision of its creator. The subjective and personal nature of these projects often implies a marginal status for the artists involved, and there is a strong association between visionary environments and outsider art.

List of visionary environments

* Jim Bishop: Bishop Castle (US) *

Aw Boon Haw Aw Boon-Haw (; 1882 in Rangoon, British Raj – 1954 in Hawaii), OBE, was a Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as founder of Tiger Balm. He was a son of Hakka herbalist Aw Chu-Kin, with his ancestral home in Yongding C ...

(胡文虎) (sponsor/concept): Haw Par Villa (Singapore),

Tiger Balm Garden Tiger Balm Gardens are public gardens that existed or continue to exist in three East Asia locations. They are also known as Haw Par Villa gardens. All three Tiger Balm Garden locations were built by the Aw family ( Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par). ...

(Hong Kong) *

Johann Michael Bossard Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name ''Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" ...

Kunststätte Bossard Kunststätte Bossard is an expressionist ''Gesamtkunstwerk'', sometimes also referred to as a visionary environment, located in the town of Jesteburg in Lower Saxony, Germany. It was created by Swiss artist (1874–1950) and his wife, Jutta Kroll ...

(Germany) * Peter Camani: Midlothian Castle ( Screaming Heads) (Canada) * Ferdinand Cheval: Le Palais idéal (France) *

Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (, , ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the s ...

: Chapelle Saint-Pierre à Villefranche-sur-Mer, Chapelle Sainte-Blaise des Simples de Milly-la-Forêt (France) *

María Ángeles Fernández Cuesta María Ángeles Fernández Cuesta (La Pinturitas) (born 1950) is a Spanish self-taught artist known for her ongoing painting work which has transformed the facade of a derelict restaurant in Arguedas, Navarre into a continuously evolving vis ...

: Arguedas, Navarre environment (Spain) *

Samuel P. Dinsmoor Samuel Perry Dinsmoor (March 8, 1843 – July 21, 1932) was an American teacher and eccentric sculptor from Lucas, Kansas, United States. Early life Dinsmoor was born near Coolville, Ohio. He served in the Civil War for three years in the U ...

: Garden of Eden (US) * Lluís Domènech i Montaner: Palau de la Música Catalana (Spain) * Kevin Duffy: Rectory Garden Centre, Tudor Village (UK)
official site
* Howard Finster: Paradise Garden (US) *

Tom Every Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character ...

Forevertron ''Dr. Evermor's Forevertron'' is the 2nd largest scrap metal sculpture in the world, standing 50 ft. (15,2 m.) high and 120 ft. (36,5 m.) wide, and weighing 300 tons. Built in the 1980s, it is housed in Dr. Evermor's Art Park on U.S. Route 12 i ...

(US) *

Robert Garcet The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

( French Wikipedia article): Tour d'Eben-Ezer ( French Wikipedia article) (Belgium) *

Antoni Gaudí Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (; ; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect from Spain known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works have a highly individualized, '' sui generis'' style. Most are located in Barc ...

: Park Güell,

Sagrada Família The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, shortened as the Sagrada Família, is an unfinished church in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. Designed by ...

, Casa Batlló, Casa Milà,

Casa Vicens Casa Vicens () is a modernist building situated in the Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona. It is the work of architect Antoni Gaudí and is considered to be his first major project. It was built between 1883 and 1885, although Gaudí drew up th ...

(Spain) * Randy Gilson:

Randyland Randyland is an art museum located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is widely regarded as one of America's most colorful public art landmarks. Randy Gilson is the creator of this museum, which dedicates to his outsider art. Randyland has pl ...

(US) * Manfred Gnädinger: The Museum of the German (Spain) *

Annie Hooper Annie Hooper (26 February 1897 – 11 January 1986) was a sculptor of visionary religious art from Buxton, North Carolina. Her work is an example of folk art, outsider art, and visionary art. Early life Annie Miller was born in Buxton, on Cap ...

: Bible Stories (US) *

Friedensreich Hundertwasser Friedrich Stowasser (15 December 1928 – 19 February 2000), better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection ...

: Hundertwasserhaus (Austria),

Quixote Winery Quixote Winery is a boutique winery in the Stags Leap District of Napa Valley, California. The winery produces organic red wine in the premium segment, and also features unusual, eclectic architecture and label design. Production and facilities ...

(California), Waldspirale, Grüne Zitadelle von Magdeburg ( German Wikipedia article) (Germany) * Raymond Isidore:

Maison Picassiette The Maison Picassiette is an example of Naïve art, naïve architecture made up of earthenware and glass mosaics cast in cement. It is located in Chartres, France and depends on the Museum of Fine Arts of the city. The house was built by one ma ...

( French Wikipedia article) (France) *

Mollie Jenson Mollie Jenson (1890-1973) was an American sculptor from River Falls, Wisconsin. She was the creator of a series of folk art sculptures known collectively as Mollie Jenson’s Art Exhibit (also known as Mollie Jenson’s Zoo & Museum). Her work ...

: Art Exhibit (US) *

Karl Junker Karl Friedrich Junker (30 August 1850 – 24 or 25 January 1912) was a German painter, sculptor and architect active in Lemgo and Lippe (district), Lippe. Life Karl Junker attended school in Lemgo from 1857 to 1864. From 1865–1866 to 1868– ...

( German Wikipedia article): Junkerhaus ( German Wikipedia article) (Germany) * Sergei Kirillov (С.И.Кириллов):

Kirillov's house Kirillov's house (Russian: Дом кузнеца Кириллова) is a prominent naïve decorative building located in the village Kunara of Sverdlovsk region in Russia. The building is a private residential home constructed between 1954 and ...

(Russia) * Leonard Knight:

Salvation Mountain Salvation Mountain is a hillside visionary environment created by local resident Leonard Knight (1931–2014) in the California Desert area of Imperial County, north of Calipatria, northeast of Niland, near the Slab City squatter/art commun ...

(US) *

George Paul Kornegay George Paul Kornegay (November 23, 1913 – June 3, 2014) was an American folk and outsider artist, and minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, who created a large Christian visionary environment with found objects near Br ...

, near Brent, Alabama (US) *

Chalermchai Kositpipat Chalermchai Kositpipat ( th, เฉลิมชัย โฆษิตพิพัฒน์, ; ; born 15 February 1955) is a Thai visual artist. Primarily a painter, Chalermchai's works have been exhibited worldwide, and he is known for his use of ...

(เฉลิมชัย โฆษิตพิพัฒน์): Wat Rong Khun (Thailand) * Bill Lishman
Underground house
(Canada) * Helen Martins: The Owl House (South Africa) * Đặng Việt Nga:

Hằng Nga Guesthouse Hằng Nga guesthouse ( vi, Biệt thự Hằng Nga), popularly known as the “Crazy House” ( vi, Ngôi nhà quái dị), is an unconventional building designed and constructed by Vietnamese architect Đặng Việt Nga in Đà Lạt, Vietnam. ...

(Vietnam) * Mary Nohl Art Environment (US) * Eddie Owens Martin: Pasaquan (US) * Pirro Ligorio:

Gardens of Bomarzo The Sacro Bosco ("Sacred Grove"), colloquially called Park of the Monsters (Parco dei Mostri in Italian), also named Garden of Bomarzo, is a Mannerist monumental complex located in Bomarzo, in the province of Viterbo, in northern Lazio, Italy. Th ...

(Italy) * Tressa Prisbrey:

Bottle Village Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, also known as Bottle Village, is an art environment, located in Simi Valley, California. It was created by Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey (1896–1988) from the 1950s to the 1970s. Prisbey built a "village" of shrin ...

(US) *

Simon Rodia The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or ''Nuestro Pueblo'' ("our town" in Spanish) are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the site of the arti ...

: Watts Towers (US) * Nek Chand Saini (नेक चंद सैणी): Rock Garden of Chandigarh (India) *

Niki de Saint Phalle Niki de Saint Phalle (; born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; 29 October 193021 May 2002) was a French-American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books. Widely noted as one of the few female monum ...

: The Garden of Tarot (Italy) * Jules Senis: Jardin Rosa Mir ( French Wikipedia article) (France) * Vollis Simpson: Windmill Park (US) * Bunleua Sulilat (บุญเหลือ สุรีรัตน์): Buddha Park (Laos), Sala Keoku (Thailand) *

Robert Tatin The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a co