In 1928, a California garbage collector began building a one-room shack from trash; over 50 years, beer cans, car parts, driftwood and shells became an multi-level hillside home

• The exterior of Nitt Witt Ridge and cans of food in a kitchen cabinet.
• Once, along California’s rugged Central Coast, there was still room for people who wanted to live differently.
• Away from polished streets and grand estates, the landscape attracted eccentrics, dreamers and determined outsiders who built their own worlds with whatever they could find.