Hokkaido's southern port: the night view from Mount Hakodate, red-brick warehouses and the morning fish market.
The fiery city of the Meuse: Montagne de Bueren's 374 steps, the Sunday Batte market and Liege waffles.
The food capital of Bolivia, the biggest Christ statue in South America and the La Cancha market.
The mouth of the Amazon: the Ver-o-Peso market, acai bowls at their source and the Cirio procession.
The royal family's seaside resort since the 1920s, with a teak palace, night markets and a long beach.
The Seomun night market, a medicine-herb street and the Haeinsa temple with its 80,000 printing blocks nearby.
The world's largest car-free old city.
Thirty-six guild streets of scooters, street kitchens and colonial shophouses around Hoan Kiem Lake.
A cruise harbour under Morne Fortune, a covered market selling cocoa sticks and bay rum, and the Pitons an hour down the coast.
Tropical Top End: the Mindil beach sunset market, saltwater crocodiles and Kakadu three hours away.
One of the smallest capitals in the world, a clock tower copied from London and the Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke market.
Perth's port town of a convict prison, a weekend market and the ferry to Rottnest's quokkas.
The biggest indigenous market in South America every Saturday, textiles and the Kichwa highlands.
The Thursday and Sunday market, the biggest in Central America, and incense on the steps of Santo Tomas.
Alexander the Great's easternmost city, the Panjshanbe bazaar and the Syr Darya river.
The largest covered bazaar in the world, a Blue Mosque and the carpet-weaving capital of Persia.
A highland colonial town of Tzotzil markets, amber and the Sumidero canyon nearby.
A round fort of 1668, the Friday goat market and the date-palm oasis at the foot of Jebel Akhdar.
The Basilica of the Annunciation, the largest church in the Middle East, and an Arab old-town market.
A bazaar city on the edge of the Lut desert, with the Ganjali Khan bathhouse and the Rayen citadel nearby.
The southern trading city, a Silk Road bazaar and the base for Aksu-Zhabagly nature reserve.
The Sunday livestock market and the Id Kah mosque, the Silk Road oasis where China meets Central Asia.
The summer capital in the pine-covered Cordillera, a night market and strawberry farms.
The floating markets of the Mekong Delta at dawn, boats selling fruit under a pole that shows what they sell.
The Qissa Khwani storytellers bazaar, Gandhara art in the museum and the road to the Khyber Pass.
A baroque city built of black lava at the foot of Etna, with the loudest fish market in Sicily.
Cezanne's town of fountains and plane trees, with Mont Sainte-Victoire on the horizon he painted sixty times.
Flemish gables, the Grand Place and the Braderie, Europe's biggest flea market, every first weekend of September.
Cobbled capital of stone arches, the botanical gardens where Blighโs breadfruit was planted, and Fort Charlotte above.
Samoaโs waterfront capital: the fish market, the Immaculate Conception cathedral and Sunday church singing.
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