Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations

Randy, Mike and Don the Camera Guy visit the Hole n' the Rock near Moab, UT, and the Gilgal Sculpture Garden in Salt Lake City, then cross over into Idaho for the Idaho Potato Expo, a nuclear submarine and Cleo's Ferry Museum on the Snake River.

Washington sights: A building shaped like a milk bottle and a giant Radio Flyer in Spokane, Gehrke Windmill Gardens near the Grand Coulee Dam, Dick & Jane's Art Spot in Ellensburg, Seattle artists Ree Brown and Tim Fowler, and the Walker Rock Garden.

West Coast delights: the Fremont Troll and painter/accordionist Greg Blackstock in Seattle; the Java Jive building in Tacoma, WA; Dan Klennert's Ex-Nihilo Sculpture Park near Elbe, WA; RichArt’s Art Yard in Centralia, WA; the World's Largest Egg in Winlock, WA; and Marsh's Free Museum in Long Beach, WA.

In Oregon, the guys set out in search of the World's Smallest Park and Portland's Velveteria, then visit a Bomber Gas Station in Milwaukee and painter Rick Bartow in Newport. Between Redmond and Bend, they have adventures at the Funny Farm and Petersen Rock Garden.

A bird's-eye view from the Out 'n' About Treehouse Resort in Takilma, OR; the remnants of Romano Gabriel's sculpture garden in Eureka, CA; a street-corner encounter with artist Duane Flatmo; artistic activities at the Studio; and a few of the crazy-pedaled contraptions at the Kinetic Lab in Arcata, CA.

In California, Randy, Mike and Don the Camera Guy pay a brief visit to the Kinetic Museum in Ferndale and a drive-through tree on the Avenue of the Giants. They also visit visionary painter Reuben Sorensen in Redway; Auburn's sculpting dentist, Ken Fox; Litto's Hubcap Ranch near Pope Valley; junk metal sculptor Patrick Amiot; and filmmaker-turned-carver Ernie Fosselius in Sebastapol.

The boys bounce into the Bay Area to visit robot builder Clayton Bailey in Port Costa, CA. In San Francisco, they see Ron Henggeler's Fulton Street Teepee Tower, a giant rubber-band ball and carver Demi Braceros' work in Cayuga Park. Then it's off to Millbrae, CA, and an encounter with futuristic folk artist Stephen Powers.

California sights: self-taught art and architecture at the Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno, the rambling construction by Art Beal known as Nittwitt Ridge in Cambria, Bubblegum Alley in San Luis Obispo, and what remains of Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley.

California sights: Los Angeles' Watts Towers, including a frontyard display called the 10th Wonder of the World; painter Elias Teller in Montebello; the Wigwam Village Motel in Rialto; and Elmer Long's Bottle Garden near Helendale.

Noah Purifoy's desert sculptures near Joshua Tree, CA; shipbuilder John Taylor in San Juan Capistrano, CA; Richard Margolin's Rock & Roll House in Encinitas, CA; and Queen Califia's Magic Circle in Escondido, CA.

The Primitive Kool Hair Salon and Art Gallery in Ocean Beach, CA; the Desert View Tower and Boulder Park near Jacumba, CA; Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain outside Niland, CA; the Space Age Lodge in Gila Bend, AZ; and fire-breathing sculptures by Richard Wizardry in Scottsdale, AZ.

The Sunnyslope Rock Garden and Gus Brethauer's Salvage Yard in Phoenix; Jerry Hall's World of Imagination and the Garden of Gethsemane in Tucson, AZ; and sculptor/inventor Poe Dismuke in Bisbee, AZ.