Photograph by Audra Melton
Nearly 50 years ago, God inspired Howard Finster to build Paradise Garden, an enormous display of sculptures and paintings scattered among a mirror-covered tree house, a tornado of rusted bicycles, and a towering church. Now Airbnb makes it easy to spend the night there. The nonprofit that maintains the compound in Summerville, roughly 90 miles northwest of Atlanta, offers guests a cozy one-bedroom bungalow decorated by Atlanta’s Summer Loftin—and unlimited access to Finster’s creation. Take a midnight tour if you please, with garden cats Calvin and Hobbes underfoot.
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