Man Spends Quarter Century Building Entire Life-Sized Village in Backyard [Video]

A man has blown people away with the entire village he built in his backyard, working on the project for over 25 years and creating a total of 24 buildings.

Terry Wilson, 70, is responsible for the project, which has attracted a huge amount of attention from around the world since he started sharing photos online. Wilson is from Meadowvale Village in Ontario, Canada, and was part of a heritage association which aimed to protect the area’s unique old-time aesthetic.

He explained to Newsweek that the unique project began when developers moved into the area in the ’90s and started building new homes. During this time, Wilson’s late mother Rosemary looked after a perennial garden which was beloved by the local community, something the president of the development company knew about and actually used as a selling point of the area.