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In the South Street neighbourhood just south of historic downtown Philadelphia, Philadelphia's Magic Gardens is one of the most distinctive immersive folk-art environments in the United States. The half-block, three-storey indoor and outdoor complex was created by the local artist Isaiah Zagar (born 1939), whose decades-long obsession with mosaic art has transformed nearly two hundred individual buildings throughout South Philadelphia into a coordinated outdoor public-art landscape unlike any ot...