Wackiest Yards You'll Ever See

Can your yard be art? Just ask these people.

Many homeowners love to decorate their yards, and their minds go crazy with creative ideas that sometimes do result in extremely unusual presentations, especially around Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. All over the country, and in your own neighborhood, you know that one house that tends to make a spectacle of itself.

Mullinville

Kansas tends to excel in unusual yard decorations. On several streets in Mullinville alone, there are hundreds of examples of unique windmills, junk metal folk art, and signs.

Truckhenge

In Topeka, "Truckhenge" reminds you of England's Stonehenge with salvage, farm, and recycled art. Included are five antique trucks jutting up out of the ground.

Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden in Lucas is the most famous local art in Kansas. Created from limestone and cement by S. P. Dinsmoor, a Civil War veteran and retired schoolteacher, this was begun in 1891 and took more than 25 years to complete. There are 150 figures, a limestone log cabin, insects, 40 foot tall trees and more. Without modern tools, conviences, or difficult site concrete delivery, Dinsmoor has made his home a Kansas landmark.

Lucas Rock Garden

Florence Deeble grew up seeing S.P. Dinsmoor's Garden of Eden, and later built concrete postcards around her home, which is also a Lucas landmark. She used rocks brought back from her travels when she was 50 years old, and has continued with this project for almost 50 years!

Kingman Wood

In Kingman, Glenn Stark has been creating art for more than 60 years. His yard is filled with humorous and beautiful sculptures in concrete and wood.

Houston also has amazing home yard art, and is home to some of the wackiest looking yards in America.

Beer Can House

The Beer Can House, has been decorated with an approximate 50,000 beer cans over 18 years beginning in 1969 by John Milkovisch. You may wonder how any one man could drink enough beer to make a yard and house into beer can art!

Flower Man House

The Flower Man House is southeast of downtown Houston at 2305 Francis Street, and is an explosion of color and shapes in an otherwise bland neighborhood. Cleveland Turner had previously spent 17 years living on the streets, was hospitalized for alcohol poisoning, and had a vision of flowers and other objects. He turned his life around, and has remained sober by decorating his home and yard for more than 10 years with silk flowers and reclaimed junk.

Hootman's Metal Woman

Metal Woman, a green metal sculpture of a well-endowed woman with blue hair, is on the lawn of attorney Tim Hootman's office. The offices are in a multi-colored railroad Pullman, boxcar and caboose, making this office a very interesting place to work.

The yard art on the front lawns of these properties are indeed wacky, but also unique and offer those driving by a glimpse into the human need to create art, and a special place to call home.