Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. When Nek Chand became a roads inspector in 1951, the north Indian ...

Pots, pillars and electric bulb sockets at the Nek Chand Rock Garden in Chandigarh, India. Giridhar Appaji Nag Y, CC BY-SA In a single week this June, the world of architecture lost two artists who ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian artist Nek Chand, who created the Rock Garden, a sprawling display of quirky sculptures crafted out of discarded household items and waste in the northern city of Chandigarh, ...

The Partition of India and Pakistan looms behind Bradbury’s warmhearted account of the life of Nek Chand (1924–2015), who built a secret sculpture garden outside Chandigarh. When Chand encounters a ...

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The creator of a 60ft-long memorial to the Americans who served in the first world war hopes it serves as a cautionary tale.