In Bangkok, The Bookshop bar confounds laws of gravity with its upside-down, every-which-way bookcases and "floating" books.
Across town, Tawandang German Microbrewery is housed within a giant, cavernous beer barrel.
In CentralWorld's trendy Groove wing, Tales of Gold Mine mimics a turn-of-the-last-century gold mine in the U.S wild, wild west.
Of course, design concepts need not be outrageous to be beautiful.
From a classic Parisian-style boozer to a sky-high stunner, here are nine of the Thai capital's most aesthetically pleasing places to go bottoms up.