Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne

Melbourne's big open-air market, trading since 1878 and covering two city blocks. There are hundreds of stalls selling fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and seafood, plus a deli hall full of cheeses, salamis and breads, and general merchandise from clothes to souvenirs (some of it junk, but there are bargains). Breakfast at the market cafés is a Melbourne ritual, and the hot jam doughnuts from the van are famous.

It's open Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and closed on Mondays and Wednesdays. Weekends are busiest and best. In summer, the Wednesday night market has street food and music, and there's a winter night market too.