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 mouth of the Amazon: the Ver-o-Peso market, acai bowls at their source and the Cirio procession.
The food capital of Bolivia, the biggest Christ statue in South America and the La Cancha market.
The Seomun night market, a medicine-herb street and the Haeinsa temple with its 80,000 printing blocks nearby.
The royal family's seaside resort since the 1920s, with a teak palace, night markets and a long beach.
One of the worldโs largest squares, framed by the tiled masterpieces of Safavid Isfahan.
Inca terraces and villages along the Urubamba between Cusco and Machu Picchu โ Ollantaytambo, Pisac market and the Moray circles.
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.
A vaulted iron-roofed bazaar running to the Umayyad Mosque, its ceiling pierced by French bullet holes.
Pepper, cardamom and ginger warehouses on the backwater that made Kerala worth fighting over.
Perth's port town of a convict prison, a weekend market and the ferry to Rottnest's quokkas.
One of the smallest capitals in the world, a clock tower copied from London and the Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke market.
The biggest indigenous market in South America every Saturday, textiles and the Kichwa highlands.
Tropical Top End: the Mindil beach sunset market, saltwater crocodiles and Kakadu three hours away.
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 southern trading city, a Silk Road bazaar and the base for Aksu-Zhabagly nature reserve.
A round fort of 1668, the Friday goat market and the date-palm oasis at the foot of Jebel Akhdar.
A highland colonial town of Tzotzil markets, amber and the Sumidero canyon nearby.
The largest covered bazaar in the world, a Blue Mosque and the carpet-weaving capital of Persia.
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 floating markets of the Mekong Delta at dawn, boats selling fruit under a pole that shows what they sell.
The summer capital in the pine-covered Cordillera, a night market and strawberry farms.
The Sunday livestock market and the Id Kah mosque, the Silk Road oasis where China meets Central Asia.
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.
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