Edward James, an eccentric British millionaire and close Mend of artists René Magritte, Leonora Carrington, and Salvador Dalí, always said that he wanted to live in his own Garden of Eden. So, starting in 1949 and working over a 35-year period-and selling off what was then the world's largest collection of Surrealist art in order to afford its (US)$5 million construction cost-he made himself such a garden in Mexico. It is near the isolated Huasteca village of Xilitla in the state of San Luis Potosí, on an 80-acre jungly mountainside of plunging waterfalls, winding footpaths, arched bridges, and nine pools-thus the name, Las Pozas.

At the garden's wild heart, James left his own ...

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