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A synth musician's paradise at the heart of a community responsible for the soundtrack to 'Stranger Things.'

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

The unique location where the former president was rapidly sworn in.

The rubbery beast is sculpted from recycled materials.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

When life gives you Prohibition, open a bar in Juárez.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

This western-themed amusement park is host to a large number of decaying animatronic cowboys.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.