‘Welcome To Fabulous Trash Vegas’ — a 35-foot structure made up of 60 tons of junk

Artist Vince Hannemann, now 63, began building a structure dubbed the Cathedral of Junk in 1988 when he was in his mid-twenties - (Vince Hannemann)

In the backyard of a single-story home in Austin, Texas, rises a towering attraction known as the “Cathedral of Junk.”

The 35-foot structure is made up of 60 tons of metal, rubber, concrete and glass, and built from old tires, light fixtures and whirlybirds fashioned into a pyramid-like shape.