Jose Luis Bonilla peers through some of the ornate iron work on the theater. Bonilla has built Asi e

Jose Luis Bonilla peers through some of the ornate iron work on the theater. Bonilla has built Asi es Mi Tierra –– a replica of a Mexican small town in the middle of the Cuyama Valley, north of Ojai. he bought the land years ago and slowly added to it as he became more and more obsessed with what he was creating. What he s created is a Mexican immigrant version of Watts Towers or HEarst Castle. it now has an enormous Mexican rodeo arena, four bandstands, one of the nicest saddle workshops in N America, a plaza, a sizable pond, and corrals The story is about Bonilla and his obsession to build this place. (Photo by Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)