In the 1940s, a New York handyman began expanding a cabin with railroad ties and cast-off objects; it grew into a seven-storey labyrinth with around 35 caverns and alcoves

Clarence Schmidt did not set out to build one of America’s strangest houses. What began as a modest cabin on a wooded mountainside in Woodstock, New York, became an enormous handmade environment of rooms, walkways, balconies, gardens, grottoes and shrines.

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