This week, Ann-Christine is looking at the Weird and Wonderful as a theme for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. I guess I’ve seen some weird and wonderful things in my time and the following artwork could possibly qualify for Cee’s Photographing Public Art Challenge too. The first place that springs to mind is the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota. The exterior and interior are decorated with crop art murals made from corn husks and other natural materials.
Closer to home, in Chicago’s Millennium Park, Anish Kapoor’s sculpture, officially titled Cloud Gate but more affectionately known as The Bean, could definitely be classified as weird and wonderful.
But the prize for the most weird and wonderful, from my perspective, has to go to House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin. This place is truly awesome, with it’s fantastic and bizarre collections carefully displayed for maximum effect. Here is just a sample of what you might see there, from the Infinity Room to dolls on carousels.
Getting the Picture 
Indeed weird AND wonderful Sue
Many thanks, Tina.
Lots of wonderful photos for both challenges this week. 😀
Thank you, Cee!
Very wonderful indeed and pretty weird too.
Although we’ve visited House on the Rock several times and I know that most of it is ‘smoke & mirrors’ I can’t help being amazed by the scope and scale of the place.
Perfectly weird and beautifully wonderful! Well done!
Thank you, Ann-Christine!
Wonderful selections, Sue!
Thank you, Amy!
I love the bean and those dolls are really weird!
Some of those antique dolls are very bizarre. I can’t imagine giving them to a child to play with.
I agree. It’s their faces that are so odd and disturbingly expressionless.
You have a knack to compile pictures for the given theme, Sue!
Thank you so much, Indira!
Love this collection of weird an wonderful things. I thought if including the Corn Palace but you beat me to it!
It’s been many years since we were there so I imagine it looks quite different now. I was interested to see when I Googled it on Getty Images, how it looked originally. Really spectacular.
We saw the Corn Palace in 2007. It looked similar to when you took your photo but different from today. Really fun to see in person
Wonderfully weird Sue!
Thank you, Anne!
I love the dolls, weird or not. Thanks for sharing them here, Sue. 🙂
Thanks, Marsha!
The Corn Palace really is weird. I have heard of it, and never been. Sounds curious, and an amazing look at art. Nice collection. Donna
Thank you, Donna! If you have a chance, Google a picture of the original building. It was absolutely incredible.
Just did that. Wow. Always so amazing to see what people create in life. Very nice.
Looks like a great place to
Visit many times and enjoy – nice entry for the the theme this week 😉
Thank you, Yvette!
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