The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

A whimsical bridge uses saxophones to pay tribute to two great men and the European Union.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

This collection of lurid religious statues tell the tales of a saint who stood down the devil.

A 141-foot wave of crashing lumber guards the entrance to the Grand Place in Mons.

A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Peek into the world of those creating the beautiful, delicate paper parasols found all over the globe.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

Monkeys lounge around at this 13th century temple.

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

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

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

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.