[UA] The UAest Place On Earth (or, at least, Colorado)

[Bailey Watts]

>Bishop's Castle is featured in the book "Roadside America" (and is probably
>also on the website: www.roadsideamerica.com), along with several other
>instances of people who just up and decided to build colossal stuff.
>There's also Soloman's Castle in a Florida swamp, created when the owner of
>the land discovered the land wouldn't support a big horizontal building--so
>he built *up*.


And I'm pretty sure it was also featured on the highly UAble television 
series "Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations."  Finally being back in th KC 
metro area (for my chef's apprenticeship) has allowed me to see it again.  
It's kitch tourism that visits some of the most bizzare places in America.

One guy they visited was told by his wife that beer made such a huge impact 
on his life that the bottle was practically his second home.  This inspired 
him to build a house using empty beer bottles for bricks and a roof shingled 
with cutup alluminum cans.  You can buy the old seasons on tape and it's 
damn well worth it.  Nearly everybody the crew visits has created some weird 
thing because of their obsessions, and these guys travel all over in search 
of it.  It's also worth noting that everything they cut gets put into a 
ball, which because noone else has tried to claim the title, they 
affectionately refer to as the world's largest ball of used videotape.

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