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A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

A replica that won't float away.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a century-old passion play.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.