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

One of Ayutthaya’s most iconic locations is a mysterious, hauntingly surreal miracle.

This Khmer-era temple includes a lintel that was stolen and displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago for years before returning to Thailand.

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

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

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

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

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

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

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.

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

Bangkok's take on the High Line is a park on a traffic bridge above the iconic Chao Phraya River.

Visit a century-old sweet shop serving gold-standard mango sticky rice.

This enormous gold Buddha statue was hidden inside a stucco decoy for centuries.

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

This ambiguous pig shrine is actually a monument to a beloved queen.