clear morning in Bilbao, and the sunlight ripples across the curved ridges of The Guggenheim. The museum may have sat on the banks of the Ria Del Nervión for over 20 years – but it feels like this ...

As he gazes at the eccentric, titanium-plated angles of Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, Francisco Mulero, a tourist from Spain's Canary Islands, explains why he admires the building. "It's spectacular ...

But its American spawn paled in comparison with the museum’s overseas counterparts, the most famous of which is the Guggenheim Bilbao, in Bilbao, Spain (pictured). Like its Spanish counterpart ...