What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

This elephant kraal is the only one remaining in Thailand, dating back to the 16th century when these massive mammals were integral players in war and trade.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

The lavish temple of the Cao Dai religion that includes Buddha, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, and Victor Hugo.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.