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A local Thai artist started building this gallery in 1980.

For more than 30 years, this stalwart has been one of the few restaurants in Bangkok specializing in northern Thai cuisine.

Sidle up for this Chinatown watering hole for Thai moonshine accompanied by traditional live tunes.

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

This neon-lit back-alley spot deals in good vibes and curries that pack a punch.

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

This old-timey Chinatown institution specializes in one of the city’s best Thai-Chinese fusion dishes.

Time-travel through Thai cuisine drawn from vintage cookbooks and little-known ingredients.

Striking, enormous gold-plated sculpture of Buddha installed in the 19th century.

An eclectic Buddhist temple packed with pop-culture icons.

These palatial ruins said to be inspired by Cambodia's Angkor Wat have been turned into a significant religious temple.

This sensational silver temple is the product of centuries of metalworking.

Get lost in the fantasy underworld of Thai serpents where wishes are granted

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark designs bring a Thai temple to life once the sun has set.

An abandoned Fiat 500 of unknown provenance serves as an unlikely icon of Bangkok’s older Chinatown

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

Hakka-style teahouse where everybody grinds their own tea.

A waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

Taiwan's only erotically-themed restaurant brings the comedy back to sex and dinner.

Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.