The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.

This WWII plane died a quiet death, and is now a garden eel playground.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.

Ancient structures used to make and preserve ice in the deserts of Persia.

The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.

If you've ever wanted to tear Hello Kitty apart with your teeth, this is the place.