Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.

Bizarre Hindu and Buddhist sculpture park.

Bizarre dirt trail winds a narrow path above the tree line.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

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

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

The magic's in the hole!

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

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

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

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