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The estate along Route 9 in Bass River will make you smile, gasp or freak out.

Atop a 800-foot-long ochre-colored wall, elephants march, sea serpents slither, dinosaurs menace, giraffes gawk. Army tanks rumble and WW2-vintage planes prepare to take off. A Roman soldier glowers from his mighty steed and a galleon majestically sails the seas. Two religious statues stand next to a Japanese anime robot. Behind them is the Statue of Liberty.

You ain't seen nothing yet.

Inside the iron gates, on 52 secluded acres, there is a three-story main house with formal dining room; a great room with full service bar; a private office; spa room; grand staircase; six bathrooms and six bedrooms, including a 2,660-square foot master suite. The groundskeeper quarters, with a greenhouse out back, rivals a McMansion.

There's a tennis court, basketball court and banquet hall. A garden with smiling Buddhas, more serpents and two barely-clothed Roman statutes. A pond -- call it a lake -- with dock, gazebo and tiki bar. Donkeys, goats and rabbits scurrying about, and a lavish dog run for Fido.

Don't forget the million-gallon swimming pool with picturesque bridge/walkway, grinning elephant, and a waterfall tower, something you're more likely to see at a Disney theme park. Atop the tower, a cannon stands poised to repel all invaders.

The house, on a stretch of road just south of Tuckerton, is a source of local amusement and wonder. "Not a month goes by that I don't get 3 or 4 emails asking me for information on the Rt. 9 walled mansion,'' local historian Pete Stemmer wrote on bassriverhistory.blogspot.com.

Few outsiders have ever been inside, though; the gates are usually locked. The estate was the subject of a profile on Weird N.J.; commenters seemed split on the visuals. One called it "amazing,'' another said, "(Kim) has ruined a beautiful piece of property it looks gaudy not whimsical.''

Love it or hate it, the property is wonderfully wacky; there's nothing quite like it in New Jersey.

"This is his art project, basically,'' broker associate Valerie Vargas says of Byung Taek Kim, the property's owner.

Kim, affiliated with the Taekwondo Association of Greater New York, has put the estate on the market. It's yours for $3.25 million. Vargas and Bob D'Ambrosia, both with KellerWilliams Realty in Morganville, see it as a "luxurious family compound'' that offers "whimsical fun and privacy' and "an escape from the everyday.''

"There is room for anything one's heart can desire,'' a fact sheet whispers.

Kim bought the property at auction about 20 years ago. There was a farmhouse on the grounds in the 1880s; the previous owner, Eddie Sims, bought the property after selling his Atlantic City house to a casino developer. The wonderland of kitsch -- the dozens of figures on the wall, the statues scattered around the property, is all Kim's doing; when he thinks of something to add to the wall, he asks his assistants to build it for him.

"He comes up with the ideas; there are no drawings,'' explains Uriel Marquina.

"He'll say, 'I want to put an airplane out front,' '' Adalid Marquina adds. "We look for places to find (materials to build it).''

The snarling dinosaur was the first piece on the wall, but the elephant was the most troublesome. Its nose broke off twice while being moved.

Many of the statues out back, including the Buddha, Kim bought and shipped from overseas. He spotted the galleon at a New York city parade, tracked down the owner, and bought it for about $20,000. Part of the gate fronting the horse paddock came from a 1920s movie theater -- somewhere, somehow.

Why so many cannons on the property?

"He likes stuff like that,'' Adalid Marquina says, smiling.

Marquina describes Kim as a "very down to earth guy, great sense of humor, very intelligent.''

There have been "lots of calls'' but only two "semi-serious'' buyers so far for the property, according to D'Ambrosia.

He says the property would make an ideal "summer camp, retreat, sports facility, medical facility, miniature golf course, amusement park.''

What happens if you're interested in the property but are really not keen on the dragons, elephants, dinosaurs, and the rest?

"This art can stay with the property or be removed should one request,'' according to the property fact sheet.

New Jersey's most eccentric home has been on the market for a year, but D'Ambrosia has no doubt a buyer will appear.

"When we get the right person with the right vision, they'll buy it,'' the Realtor says.

Peter Genovese may be reached at pgenovese@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @PeteGenovese or via The Munchmobile @NJ_Munchmobile. Find the Munchmobile on Facebook and Instagram.