Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
Gorgeous satire - a hapless chap with a genius for getting into the wrong place at the wrong time in the middle of a decaying society

They Went to Portugal - Rose Macauley
A collection of extracts from essays, letters and books written by (mostly English) vistors in Portugal over the last thousand years or so; the reactions range from ecstacy (Byron) to despair (also Byron :)

Voyager 1001 - Various
A story-cycle of 26 stories, all by different authors, told by Chakotay to Janeway over the course of three days and nights - Scheherazade for the 24th century.