But Holy Land USA closed in 2009. Recommended Videos. So, what happened? Julia Smith owns 34 of the nearly 200-acres that was once the thriving attraction.

BEDFORD -- In the shadows of Golgotha, a group of Christians broke into song on a recent Saturday. "Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. King and kingdom will all pass away. But there's something about that name ...

Shot in the early 1980s, Holy Land USA by Lisa Barlow had been patiently waiting in a box as a set of negatives in a New York basement for the last 40 years, only recently unearthed due to the ...

The decline of Holy Land USA is watched sadly by those who consider it American folk art and those who were inspired by it. Nearly every day for 30 years, John Greco would close his law practice ...

Holy Land USA in Connecticut was a religious attraction that shut to the public nearly 30 years ago and has been abandoned since. It was listed for sale in 2011 but has just had $150,000 slashed ...

Shuttered in 1984, Connecticut's Holy Land USA is a crumbling hodgepodge of biblical settings that was also the site of a ...

Chloe Ottman Murdered at Holy Land USA by Friend, Say Police By Naimah Jabali-Nash July 19, 2010 / 1:50 PM EDT / CBS News ...

The curious and devotees of kitsch trespass on the hilltop property to photograph what’s left of John Baptist Greco’s public expression of faith.Christ on the cross at Calvary with a missing arm.

WATERBURY, Conn. — Despite the threat of rain, approximately 2,000 people gathered at Holy Land USA, a decades-old landmark atop the city’s mountain, on a Saturday evening for a Mass ...