The palace of gold is located near Moundsville, WV and was built mostly by amateurs with no experience at all. The temple was built in honor of Srila Prabhupada at New Vrindavan. The following information is from wikipedia- Prabhupada's Palace of Gold is a memorial shrine built by Hare Krishna devotees for their spiritual master, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977), the Founder/Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). It is located at the New Vrindaban Community in Marshall County, West Virginia, and reportedly cost $600,000 in materials (labor was free).