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Handpicked destinations. Every one worth the flight.
80 destinations
Amalfi Coast, Italy
Best: May–June, September
The Amalfi Coast rewards those who accept its chaos: hairpin roads, impossible parking, and towns that cling to cliffs l…
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Best: April–May, September
Amsterdam is a city best understood by bicycle — the canal rings, the Jordaan's brown cafés, the Rijksmuseum on a weekda…
Bali, Indonesia
Best: April–October
Past the tourist noise of Kuta, Bali offers something rarer: genuine spiritual atmosphere in Ubud's valleys, volcanic la…
Bangkok, Thailand
Best: November–February
Bangkok is overwhelming in the best way — a megacity of golden temples, chaotic street markets, rooftop bars with absurd…
Barcelona, Spain
Best: May–June, September–October
Barcelona is Spain's most architecturally adventurous city — Gaudí's unfinished Sagrada Família still shocks after multi…
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Best: March–May, September–November
Buenos Aires is grand, melancholic, and delicious. The city's European-style boulevards, world-class steakhouses, and ta…
Cairo & the Pyramids, Egypt
Best: October–April
The Great Pyramid of Giza is 4,500 years old and still the largest stone structure ever built by human hands. Standing a…
Cape Town, South Africa
Best: October–April
Cape Town stacks experiences on top of each other — Table Mountain at sunrise, a drive through the Winelands at noon, pe…
Cappadocia, Turkey
Best: April–June, September–November
Cappadocia is legitimately otherworldly — the volcanic tufa landscape of Göreme has been carved into cave dwellings, und…
Copenhagen, Denmark
Best: May–August
Copenhagen is where the New Nordic food movement was born — Noma changed global cooking from here, and the ripple effect…
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Best: May–June, September–October
Dubrovnik's old city walls are a 2km walkable circuit offering the finest urban panorama in the Mediterranean. The crowd…
Edinburgh, Scotland
Best: May–September (Fringe: August)
Edinburgh's Old Town is dramatic in all seasons, but August during the Fringe Festival transforms it into the world's gr…
Florence, Italy
Best: April–May, September–October
Florence is an outdoor museum that also happens to have extraordinary food. The Uffizi holds Botticelli's Birth of Venus…
Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
Best: December–May (warm), June–November (cool, better diving)
The Galápagos Islands are the only place on earth where you can swim with sea lions, snorkel alongside penguins and mari…
Hoi An, Vietnam
Best: February–May
Hoi An's Ancient Town is a UNESCO-listed trading port preserved in amber — Chinese merchant houses, Japanese covered bri…
Iceland
Best: June–August, November–February
Iceland rewards visitors who leave Reykjavik. The Ring Road circles a country that looks like another planet — black lav…
Istanbul, Turkey
Best: April–May, September–October
Istanbul is the only city in the world that straddles two continents, and it wears that ambiguity well — Byzantine mosai…
Kyoto, Japan
Best: March–May, October–November
Kyoto is Japan preserved — 1,600 temples, wooden machiya townhouses, and a food culture so refined it makes Tokyo feel r…
Lisbon, Portugal
Best: March–May, September–October
Lisbon moves at a slower pace than its European neighbors — trams creak up cobblestone hills, neighborhood tascas serve …
Machu Picchu, Peru
Best: May–September
Machu Picchu genuinely earns its fame — the 15th-century Inca citadel, built on a mountain ridge above the Sacred Valley…
Maldives
Best: November–April
The Maldives is the destination that invented the overwater bungalow and still does it best. The atolls sit so low in th…
Marrakech, Morocco
Best: March–May, October–November
Marrakech is a city that grabs you by the collar. The medina is a living maze of spice merchants, leather tanneries, and…
Mexico City, Mexico
Best: March–May, October–December
Mexico City is having its decade. The food scene has quietly become one of the world's best — Enrique Olvera, Jorge Vall…
New York City, USA
Best: April–June, September–November
New York is still the most thrilling city in the world to arrive in for the first time — the skyline, the energy, the sh…
Norwegian Fjords, Norway
Best: May–September
The fjords of western Norway — Geirangerfjord, Nærøyfjord, Hardangerfjord — are among the most dramatic landscapes on ea…
Paris, France
Best: April–June, September–October
Paris is almost unfairly beautiful — Haussmann boulevards, candlelit bistros, museums that would be the best in any othe…
Patagonia, Argentina & Chile
Best: November–March
Patagonia is one of the last genuinely wild places — granite towers, teal glacial lakes, and winds that make you reasses…
Petra, Jordan
Best: March–May, October–November
Petra's Treasury — the façade carved directly into rose-red sandstone cliff — is the image. But Petra is vast: a full da…
Porto, Portugal
Best: May–June, September–October
Porto is everything Lisbon is but rougher, cheaper, and somehow more charming. The Ribeira waterfront is a UNESCO World …
Prague, Czech Republic
Best: May–June, September–October
Prague's Old Town and castle district are among the most physically beautiful urban environments in the world — spires, …
Queenstown, New Zealand
Best: December–February (summer), June–August (skiing)
Queenstown sits on the edge of Lake Wakatipu beneath the Remarkables mountain range and offers more adrenaline per squar…
Rajasthan, India
Best: October–March
Rajasthan is India distilled — Jaipur's pink city, Udaipur's lake palaces, Jodhpur's blue-washed houses beneath a clifft…
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Best: December–March (Carnival in Feb/Mar), May–September
Rio is baroque in its beauty — the combination of granite mountains, Atlantic beaches, and tropical forest packed into a…
Rome, Italy
Best: April–May, October
Rome works on you slowly. The Colosseum and Vatican are mandatory, but the city reveals itself in quieter moments — a gl…
Santorini, Greece
Best: May–June, September
Yes, everyone goes. Go anyway. The caldera views from Oia and Imerovigli are as extraordinary as photographed. Stay in a…
Seoul, South Korea
Best: April–May, September–November
Seoul moves fast and eats even faster. The Han River palaces and Bukchon Hanok village are beautiful; the real Seoul is …
Serengeti, Tanzania
Best: June–October (migration), January–February (calving)
The Serengeti's Great Migration is the world's greatest wildlife event — two million wildebeest and hundreds of thousand…
Singapore
Best: February–April
Singapore shouldn't exist as it does — a tiny island with no natural resources that became one of the world's wealthiest…
Sydney, Australia
Best: September–November, March–May
Sydney's physical setting — harbour, ocean beaches, national parks flanking the suburbs — makes it among the most beauti…
Tokyo, Japan
Best: March–May, October–November
Tokyo has more Michelin-starred restaurants than any city on earth. It also has 24-hour convenience stores with better f…
Vienna, Austria
Best: April–June, September–October
Vienna is the most underrated major European city. The Kunsthistorisches Museum alone is worth the flight; add the Belve…
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Best: November–March
Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument in the world and the surviving centerpiece of a 12th-century Khmer empire t…
Athens, Greece
Best: April–May, September–October
Athens is messier and more alive than its ancient reputation suggests. The Acropolis at sunrise is genuinely moving; the…
Azores, Portugal
Best: May–October
The Azores are nine Portuguese islands in the middle of the Atlantic, each with a completely different character. São Mi…
Bhutan
Best: March–May, September–November
Bhutan is the only country in the world that measures Gross National Happiness instead of GDP. The Tiger's Nest monaster…
Bruges, Belgium
Best: March–May, October–November
Bruges is one of the best-preserved medieval cities in Europe — the canal system, guild halls, and Flemish Gothic archit…
Budapest, Hungary
Best: April–June, September–October
Budapest is two cities — Buda's hilly castle district and Pest's flat, cafe-dense boulevards — split by the Danube and c…
Cartagena, Colombia
Best: December–April
Cartagena's walled old city is one of the most beautiful in the Americas — bougainvillea spills over balconies, colonial…
Chefchaouen, Morocco
Best: March–May, September–November
Chefchaouen is one of Morocco's most photogenic towns — the entire medina is painted in shades of blue and white, climbi…
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Best: November–February
Chiang Mai is Northern Thailand's cultural capital — the walled old city has over 30 temples, the Sunday Walking Street …
Cinque Terre, Italy
Best: May–June, September
Cinque Terre's five cliff-hung villages — Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, Riomaggiore — are connected by hiki…
Dubai, UAE
Best: November–March
Dubai is architecturally audacious — the Burj Khalifa, the Palm, the Museum of the Future — and the city delivers experi…
Essaouira, Morocco
Best: March–May, September–November
Essaouira is the antidote to Marrakech — a fortified coastal city on Morocco's Atlantic coast where the medina is relaxe…
Faroe Islands
Best: May–August
The Faroe Islands feel genuinely remote — 18 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic, connected by tunnels and ferries, w…
Fiji
Best: May–October
Fiji isn't just one destination — the Mamanuca and Yasawa island chains each offer different experiences, from surf brea…
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Best: June–October
The Great Barrier Reef stretches 2,300 kilometers along Australia's Queensland coast and contains more species of marine…
Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
Best: October–April
Ha Long Bay's karst landscape is unlike anything else on earth — thousands of limestone pillars and islands covered in j…
Hallstatt, Austria
Best: May–June, September–October
Hallstatt is genuinely one of the most beautiful villages in the world — Alpine lake, salt mine history, a church spire …
Havana, Cuba
Best: December–April
Havana is a city in vivid decay — crumbling colonial facades painted in faded yellows and greens, 1950s American cars dr…
Kotor, Montenegro
Best: May–June, September–October
Kotor is the Adriatic's hidden masterpiece: a Venetian-era walled city tucked inside a bay so enclosed it looks like a l…
Lake Como, Italy
Best: May–June, September
Lake Como is the most cinematic lake in the world — the reason it keeps appearing in films is that the combination of Al…
Lima, Peru
Best: December–April
Lima doesn't look like a food capital but it is — Central, Maido, and Astrid y Gastón are regularly ranked among the wor…
Luang Prabang, Laos
Best: November–March
Luang Prabang is one of the most serene places in Southeast Asia — a UNESCO-listed royal capital where saffron-robed mon…
Malta
Best: April–June, September–October
Malta is small enough to cover in a week but dense with history — Valletta, the world's smallest capital, is a Baroque m…
Medellín, Colombia
Best: December–March, July–August
Medellín's transformation from the world's most dangerous city to a model of urban innovation is one of travel's great s…
Melbourne, Australia
Best: October–April
Melbourne is what happens when a city takes culture seriously — the laneway coffee scene, the NGV art gallery, the food …
Namibia
Best: May–September
Namibia is Africa's most dramatic landscape destination — the Sossusvlei dunes, rising 300 meters in shades of red and o…
Nashville, USA
Best: April–May, October
Nashville has outgrown its country music clichés and become one of America's most dynamic cities — a genuine food scene …
New Orleans, USA
Best: February–May, October–November
New Orleans is America's most European city, its most Caribbean city, and its most itself city — all at once. The food a…
Oaxaca, Mexico
Best: October–May
Oaxaca is Mexico's spiritual and culinary center — seven types of mole, tlayudas the size of hubcaps, and mezcal made by…
Rwanda
Best: June–September, December–February
Mountain gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park is one of travel's most profound experiences — spending an hour wit…
San Francisco, USA
Best: September–November
San Francisco is physically one of the most beautiful cities in America — the fog rolling through the Golden Gate, Victo…
Seville, Spain
Best: March–May, October–November
Seville is Spain's most Spanish city — the Real Alcázar palace, the world's largest Gothic cathedral, and a tapas cultur…
Swiss Alps, Switzerland
Best: December–March (ski), June–September (hiking)
The Swiss Alps set the template for mountain travel — Zermatt beneath the Matterhorn, Grindelwald facing the Eiger's nor…
Taipei, Taiwan
Best: October–April
Taipei is Asia's most underrated city — it has the energy of Tokyo at a fraction of the cost, extraordinary street food …
Tbilisi, Georgia
Best: April–June, September–November
Tbilisi is the most exciting emerging destination in Europe — a city where orthodox churches and Soviet-era brutalism co…
Tulum, Mexico
Best: December–April
Tulum has become overrun but still delivers on its original promise: Mayan ruins on a cliff above the clearest Caribbean…
Tuscany, Italy
Best: April–June, September–October
The Val d'Orcia valley looks exactly like every Renaissance painting you've ever seen because Renaissance painters paint…
Valparaíso, Chile
Best: November–March
Valparaíso is Chile's most creative city — 42 hills covered in street art, funicular elevadores connecting the port to t…
Zanzibar, Tanzania
Best: June–October, December–February
Zanzibar earns its mythical status — the powder-white beaches of Nungwi and Paje, the labyrinthine Stone Town (a UNESCO …