Author name: Brenda Gray

Standing on his newly purchased patch of bare Arizona desert in 1951, Grover Cleveland Thompson found the place to make his dreams come alive. Using abundant local resources of dirt, sand, rocks, broken crockery, Halloween masks, scrap metal and other artistic essentials, Grover spent the next several decades building a Gaudí-esque wonderland in Phoenix. He continued

If you get off the Seibu Railway train at Higashi-Murayama station, a gateway to the suburban Tokyo city of the same name, you will be greeted by a somewhat surreal statue of a feudal lord in kimono giving a chin-level salute. It might leave you puzzled if you don’t know the context, but a majority

After the devastating earthquake in Christchurch in 2011 destroyed this coffee shop’s original location, they found a new home in an unexpected place: the former High Street Post Office building. With its high ceilings and immense windows, this rare architectural jewel is one of the most picturesque spots to grab a coffee anywhere.  To add to