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- MBAD African Bead Museum Olayami Dabls' block-long outdoor installation in Detroit
- Where to See the Southern Lights in Tasmania An island dark enough to watch the aurora from the shoreline
- The Great Victorian Bathing Trail 560 miles of hot springs, bathhouses and sea pools, strung into one route
- The Galerie d'Apollon The Louvre's jewel gallery, reopened with every case emptied on purpose
- Saunasaari Helsinki's only public traditional smoke sauna, on its own island
- Harriet Tubman's Auburn The home, church, and care home Harriet Tubman actually lived among
- Jeju Black Pork A heritage-breed pig raised on a Korean island since the Goryeo dynasty
- Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library A Snøhetta library in the Badlands where an AI Roosevelt takes your questions
- Finca La Concordia An apple-orchard farm stay in Puebla built for accessibility from the ground up
- The Wolf Trail A newly opened 2,171-mile thru-hike from the Baltic to the Adriatic across six countries
- Scotland's Artisan Cheese Trail A drivable route linking Scotland's small-batch cheesemakers, farm to farm
- Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration Britain's first illustration museum, in a converted Victorian waterworks
- St. John's Co-Cathedral A plain fortress shell hiding wall-to-wall baroque gold — and a Caravaggio
- Exarcheia, Athens The anarchist neighborhood that became an open-air gallery
- Macon, Georgia A small city built around the Allman Brothers and Otis Redding
- Mandai Rainforest Resort by Banyan Tree Seed-pod treehouse suites inside Singapore's working wildlife sanctuary
- Quercus A Relais & Châteaux biodynamic cattle ranch stay in Gay, Georgia
- River Snorkeling in the Blue Ridge Mountains Swimming upstream through Appalachian rivers to find iridescent native fish
- Saba A five-square-mile Dutch island with no beaches and world-class diving
- Socotra Island The Galápagos of the Arabian Sea, with dragon's-blood trees under the Milky Way
- Tella Thera A 21-room zero-waste eco-hotel built into Crete's northwest hillside
- Traversée Cévenole An 81-mile bike-and-train loop through Europe's largest Dark Sky Reserve
- Villa Argentina A 1913 Dubrovnik villa restored with local stone on a limestone bluff
- Villa Fayoum A restored 12-room estate in Egypt's Fayoum Oasis, near the Valley of Whales
- Amanvari Aman's first Mexico property, far from the Cabo most travellers know
- Uniworld Netherlands River Cruise An art-themed river cruise through the towns that made Vermeer and Van Gogh
- Rock climbing in Athens Athens has new bouldering routes within sight of the Parthenon
- Eisbach Wave, Munich Munich's permanent river surf wave reopens
- Robert Mondavi Winery (reopened) Napa's Mondavi reopens after a 5-year renovation
- The Vietage by Anantara A boutique luxury train carriage along Vietnam's central coast
- Hotel Monroe First fully gluten-free hotel in the United States
- Why You Shouldn't Put a Suitcase on the Hotel Bed Suitcase wheels carry 58× the bacteria of a public toilet seat
- Nimmo Bay Resort A family-owned wilderness lodge in BC's Great Bear Rainforest — barefoot forest walks, floating saunas, cold snorkeling
- Atacama Desert Superblooms Penguins, blooming desert, and 'sun wine' in the less-traveled half of Chile's Atacama