Founded during the Ayutthaya era, this unique Buddhist temple remains shipshape to this day.

Displaying religious art made almost exclusively in modern styles helps set this Buddhist temple apart from the myriad others in Bangkok.

The bank's whimsical shape was inspired by a child’s toy.

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

While it might look like an ordinary chain, this is the shop that turned Thai iced tea into a global phenomenon.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

Bangkok’s most beloved fried chicken spot lets its garlic-burrowed birds do the talking.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This neon landmark has been posing this deadpan question to follicly-challenged Dubliners for over 50 years.

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

Some of the saint's blood and bones are said to reside in Dublin.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

An enigmatic monument to the Irish revolutionary who plotted an uprising against British rule.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

Collection of still-functioning printing presses from the 18th to 20th centuries.

The Dublin sea wall draws walkers, photographers, and fishing enthusiasts.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

Outside an Irish football stadium are murals commemorating history and local heroes.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.