In the foothills of Phoenix’s South Mountain, an extraordinary house was built from materials most people would have thrown away. Between the 1930s and 1945, Boyce Luther Gulley gathered desert stone, rejected bricks, old railway materials, telephone poles, automobile parts and other discarded objects to build an 18-room castle for his daughter, Mary Lou.

In the foothills of Southern California, an unusual castle grew out of materials that most people would have thrown away. Bottles, scrap metal, old machinery, car parts and…

In the foothills of Phoenix’s South Mountain, an extraordinary house was built from materials most people would have thrown away. Between the 1930s and 1945, Boyce Luther Gulley…