Tinkertown, New Mexico

Forty years worth of carving and tinkering by the owner of this property, a man named Ross Ward, created the more than 12,000 carved objects and kinetic dioramas, including a Western town, and a circus. Tinkertown, a museum he made with his wife over those years, became a 22 room rambling handmade structure, with bottle walls, sculptures, and found objects embedded into the buildings. Ross Ward died in 2002, but the place remains as it was, and open to the public.