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Wing's Castle, Millbrook, N.Y.
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Wing's Castle, Millbrook, N.Y.

After returning from Vietnam with no money, Peter Wing began building his 12th-century-inspired labor of love with recycled materials from area railroads and barns. More then three decades later, he’s still building, and the crowds keep flocking to view his Buddha-belly fireplaces, clover-shaped bathrooms, and walls with mocking stone faces. “My other choice,” Wing says, only slightly sarcastically, “was a tinfoil ball.”

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