Second only to Rio: weeks of sequinned parades, the election of the Carnival Queen and street parties that run until dawn.
Sacred red monolith at the desert heart.
Former railway station holding the world’s greatest Impressionist collection — Monet, Van Gogh, Degas — under a giant glass clock.
Space theme park in Europe’s aerospace capital: a full-size Ariane 5, a Mir station mock-up and a planetarium.
Shogun-era castle famous for the pair of golden shachihoko dolphins on its roof and the lavishly rebuilt Honmaru Palace.
Fukuoka’s riverside yatai food stalls serve the original pork-bone ramen — creamy, rich and eaten elbow to elbow with strangers.
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