This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

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

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

This Bangkok high-rise looks like a rudimentary LEGO elephant.

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

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

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

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

The city’s oldest gateway to the galaxy lies at the entrance to the Royal Botanical Gardens.

This 19th-century convent is now a flourishing 21st-century hub for art.

Children's author May Gibbs's beloved stories about the tiny, human-like "Gumnut Babies" are immortalized in bronze.

This historic tall ship traveled 1.5 million miles around the globe, and once did duty as the mythical pirate ship in Peter Pan.

A firefighting museum housed in a historic station whose Lookout Tower watches over Melbourne.

The largest shot tower in Australia is a unique reminder of industrial ammunitions history.

Melbourne's favorite bronze dog.

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

Every hour a secret compartment drops from this giant pocket watch, revealing a lovely surprise.

The King is honored by an elaborate grotto on a continent he never visited.

A colorful street named for the legendary Australian rock band.

Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.

A whimsical menagerie of creatures carved into a 300-year-old tree trunk.