Visit Aix-en-Provence

Flemish gables, the Grand Place and the Braderie, Europe's biggest flea market, every first weekend of September.

The world's largest car-free old city.

The fiery city of the Meuse: Montagne de Bueren's 374 steps, the Sunday Batte market and Liege waffles.

Hokkaido's southern port: the night view from Mount Hakodate, red-brick warehouses and the morning fish market.

The Seomun night market, a medicine-herb street and the Haeinsa temple with its 80,000 printing blocks nearby.

A baroque city built of black lava at the foot of Etna, with the loudest fish market in Sicily.

The Sunday livestock market and the Id Kah mosque, the Silk Road oasis where China meets Central Asia.

The floating markets of the Mekong Delta at dawn, boats selling fruit under a pole that shows what they sell.