Waldkunstpfad A 3.3-kilometre forest path outside Darmstadt that becomes an art exhibition every second summer
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Bunker Tombé The Atlantic Wall shelter that was pushed off a Normandy cliff and landed on its end
Retired Landmark Binocular Viewer A decommissioned coin-op tower viewer, sold with its service history
Cape Bear Lighthouse and Marconi Station The first place in Canada to hear the Titanic
Freedom Park Twenty miles of mountain bike trail, and three cabins that were somebody's address
Fossil Beach at York River State Park A mile of trail, and a beach the cliffs keep restocking
Deep Dive Dubai Sixty metres down, past an ATM, a foosball table and a garage full of cars
Bunski Kanal The last 850 metres of a river that is only nine kilometres long
Gin Drinkers Line Eighteen kilometres built to hold for weeks, navigated by London street names, overrun in two days
Knize Adolf Loos designed the shop in 1913 and nobody has had a better idea since
The Mundaneum A search engine with a postal interface, fifteen million cards deep
'The Missing' Cabin A film set left standing in a volcanic bowl, twenty-three years after the crew left
Volvo Island A man dug the ground out from under his own car and left it there for fourteen years
Portsmouth Flood Wall Murals The wall Portsmouth built to keep the Ohio River out, painted into a half-mile gallery of its own history
Rogue Creamery A Depression-era dairy co-op in southern Oregon that has twice made the best cheese in the world
Hon's BBQ Texas brisket technique, aimed at Hong Kong
The Galerie d'Apollon The Louvre's jewel room, reopened with every case emptied on purpose
The Gävle Goat A 43-foot straw goat that has survived Christmas only seventeen times since 1966
Mělník Chapel of Bones An anthropology professor arranged thousands of bones into a pile, a cross, and his own signature
South Main Plaza Dog Fountain Eighteen dogs, one cat, and a man who drove to Toronto to ask permission
The 2027 Eclipse at Luxor Six minutes and twenty-three seconds of totality, and nothing longer on reachable land until 2114
Lazareto de Menorca An island laid out so that 111,184 people could arrive without touching anyone
The Original Backrooms Location The internet's most famous liminal void was a hobby shop building a racetrack
Reynard's Cave The arch is the famous part; the cave next door held the coins
Tokyo Trains The whole Kanto network in motion, and an x-ray down through Shinjuku
Møllestien Aarhus's prettiest lane is about seventy years old, and that is the interesting part
Southernmost ATM Two cash machines at 77°51′ south, one of them kept alive by eating the other
Riviera Hotel Menorca Fourteen rooms in Ciutadella where the stripe is the architecture, not the trim
Stowaway Live Click any plane overhead and ride in its window seat, under a sky that is rendered rather than mapped
Karafuneya Coffee The Kyoto kissaten that built a parfait for 25
Oshirado A pavilion of a thousand horse-god effigies, rewrapped in prayer cloth every year
Braun Collection The industrial-design canon, one flight up in a Kronberg strip mall, for three euros
Kawran Bazar Dhaka's wholesale market runs hardest at 2am — and the city has been trying to move it since 2024
Saugerties Lighthouse An 1869 lighthouse you can sleep in, if you read the tide chart first
The Living History Museum of Camping A museum where the exhibits have beds and you sleep in them
Submarine Safari A submarine that takes 44 people thirty metres under Tenerife
Fuel Tank Orca Mural A leaping orca turns Palmer Station's biggest fuel tank into Antarctica's most recognizable landmark
Drops of Rain Giant resin faces surfacing out of the topiary above the Étretat cliffs
Gedenkstein Melitta Bentz The stone in a Dresden back street for the woman who fixed coffee in 1908
Königshöhle The cave that lent a Copper Age culture its name, and a hole in the roof the Devil is blamed for
The House of David Bowie Hauptstraße 155, where strangers still tuck roses into the iron door
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library A Snøhetta library in the Badlands where an AI Roosevelt takes your questions
Humphrey the M5 Camel A homemade carnival float that never left its Somerset field
Huset, Longyearbyen the world's northernmost fine dining, remade by Snøhetta
Statue of Lennie Gwyther and Ginger Mick The nine-year-old who rode his pony 620 miles to watch the Sydney Harbour Bridge open
Porcelain Room A Rococo chamber at Aranjuez sheathed floor-to-ceiling in porcelain
Clasica Fiberglass Camper Trailer A 1,200-pound fiberglass camper built to order, echoing 1970s European caravans
Tropfsteinmaschine, 1996–2496 A basement museum machine growing a stalactite-stalagmite pair over 500 years
Lai Tak Tsuen Estate Hong Kong's only cylindrical public housing — four 1976 drums around open-air atria, and still someone's home
Finds
- The Birdhouse Tree of Riga One dead tree, scores of painted nest boxes, no known author
- John Ford Statue The man who invented the American West was from Maine
- Waldkunstpfad A forest outside Darmstadt that has been an art gallery since 2002
- Acueducto de La Partida A tiny 1778 aqueduct hiding in Madrid's largest park
- Bunker Tombé A WWII bunker pushed off a Normandy cliff that landed on its end
- Duong Long Cham Towers Late-12th-century Cham towers rising out of rural Binh Dinh
- Retired Landmark Binocular Viewer A decommissioned coin-op tower viewer, sold with its service history
- Timothy Dexter's William Pitt Statue The one sculpture that survived Lord Dexter's outdoor gallery
- Eéso by Nema A hotel built inside another hotel's garden
- Lucy Sparrow: The Beginning of Convenience A 1980s supermarket with every item sewn from felt
- Cup of Joy Istanbul's stone walls, rebuilt in clay in Marylebone
- Fir Street Cemetery Three separate graveyards on eight residential lots
- @towns.satyrs.eu One British or Irish town, on the hour, in its historic county
- Cape Bear Lighthouse and Marconi Station Where a Canadian first heard the Titanic
- Liberation Mural A Muybridge horse that only animates at 40 mph
- Ancient Underwater Wall of Nhon Hai Surfaces for a few days each lunar month, and nobody has dated it
- The Ring Thirty metres of steel hung over a staircase
- Buslens Which buses stop near this spot, and where do they go
- Chickahominy Riverfront Park A tidal cypress swamp that 1607 would still recognise
- Freedom Park The mountain bike trail runs past a free Black settlement
- Jolly's Mill Pond History you are expected to taste
- Nelson House A composed brick front that spent October 1781 inside the siege lines
- Tarmak22 Chris Ofili and Max Ernst, at a small Alpine airfield
- Fossil Beach at York River State Park The cliffs keep restocking the sand
- Scarborough Marsh A canal dug to hide ships from the British, still there
- Watermen's Museum The Chesapeake museum about the people, not the battles
- Deep Dive Dubai There is an ATM sixty metres down a swimming pool
- Hotel Hans A Tivoli architect's red-brick block, on the seam between two Copenhagens
- Bunski Kanal Where the emerald Buna is squeezed into the Neretva
- Gin Drinkers Line The Maginot Line of the East, held for two days
- Tomarigi A thousand live cameras, arranged on a map of Japan
- Knize The same man behind the counter since 1956
- Langosteria London Milanese seafood in the Old War Office
- Nômade Temple Ibiza A 1970s all-inclusive reborn with a shaman on staff
- Red Sea Terminal An airport ceiling shaped like the water outside it
- Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdoes Fifty years of punk, assembled from the flyers up
- Doña Manolita Spain queues around the block at the counter that sells the most winners
- Fyllingsdalstunnelen Nearly three kilometres of mountain, for bikes and feet only
- The Great Victorian Bathing Trail 560 miles of hot springs, bathhouses and sea pools, strung into one route
- Isis Heiligtum A Roman temple left in place under a shopping mall
- The Mundaneum The world’s knowledge, on millions of index cards
- North American Cryptid Museum Bigfoot, the Wendigo and the Beast of Bray Road, at full height
- 'The Missing' Cabin A 2003 film set the Park Service decided to just leave standing
- Volvo Island A 2001 S80 parked on an island built for it
- Cinema Africa Asmara's third-most-famous Art Deco cinema, which is why it still belongs to its street
- Iglesia de la Asunción La Gomera's fifteenth-century church, still in use
- Salubria Preserved, deliberately not restored — the stucco is still coming off the 1757 brick
- Tin Pan Theater Twenty-eight red velvet seats down an alley in Bend, Oregon
- All Roads Lead Home An atlas of every street you have ever walked — and the ones you never have
- Dolphin Sunset Hong Kong's best harbour view is on the roof of the terminal everyone leaves from
- Gregg-Crites Octagon House An eight-sided Ohio farmhouse where the rooms are cut like slices of pie
- Portsmouth Flood Wall Murals Half a mile of Ohio history painted onto the wall that saved the town
- Vestige Binidufà Eleven rooms in an 18th-century finca, with 800 hectares around it
- Rogue Creamery A Depression-era dairy co-op that twice made the best cheese in the world
- El Cortés A three-year restoration of a Roma Norte art nouveau house, down to the stained glass
- Gloucester Sea Serpent Statue A monument to a monster that hundreds of people swore they saw
- Hon's BBQ Texas brisket technique, aimed at Hong Kong
- Hotel Riviera Menorca done in 1970s Romagna colours instead of the usual whitewash
- Where's My Muni? Every Muni, BART and Caltrain vehicle in San Francisco on one map
- The Bolton Strid A river narrow enough to step across, with no recorded survivors of a fall
- The Galerie d'Apollon The Louvre's jewel gallery, reopened with every case emptied on purpose
- The Gävle Goat A 43-foot straw goat that has survived Christmas only 17 times since 1966
- Highgate Cemetery Where Karl Marx and Douglas Adams rest, and vampire hunters once feuded
- Mělník Chapel of Bones Thousands of skulls arranged into a pile, a cross and a heart, and signed
- Murales del Borgo San Giuliano A fishermen's quarter that painted itself out of demolition, then into Fellini
- The Nutcracker Museum Over 7,000 nutcrackers from more than fifty countries, including a Garfield
- Radiooooo Pick a country and a decade, hear what was playing
- Yesterdays of Richmond Historical photos pinned to their exact spot on a live Richmond map
- Chef Medeu An 1881 recipe book, cooked in the foothills above Almaty
- City of Justice A bronze plaque in Užupis narrating events that happened in a parallel world
- RoboCop Statue Detroit asked the internet for ideas and got exactly one it couldn't refuse
- South Main Plaza Dog Fountain Painted dogs spraying at a golden bone, with one cat sitting safely out of range
- The 2027 Eclipse at Luxor Six minutes and twenty-three seconds, and then not again until 2114
- Hundafoss The waterfall almost everyone walks straight past
- Lazareto de Menorca A walled island built so nobody could touch anyone else
- The Original Backrooms Location The internet's most famous empty room is upstairs from a hobby shop in Oshkosh
- Cattedrale di San Nicolò The cathedral of a town rebuilt ten kilometres away, all at once
- Hotel Cipriani, Venice Seventy years of selling Venice without the crowds
- McCandless Collection Classic cars arranged like someone's very good garage, not a museum
- Reynard's Cave A limestone arch in Dovedale with a cave hiding behind it
- Tokyo Trains 1,900 trains moving across 147 lines, at sixty times speed
- James Dalton Trumbo Statue The blacklisted screenwriter, cast in bronze, in the bath
- Møllestien Twenty-eight cottages, hollyhocks, and a very unquiet past
- Southernmost ATM Wells Fargo flies a technician to Antarctica every two years
- The Outer Rim Mid-century calm, wall-to-wall science fiction
- Unplugged Barclay & Wilfred A phone lockbox, an emergency Nokia, and the Celtic Sea
- Riviera Hotel Menorca Fourteen rooms built almost entirely out of stripes
- AZ–NV–UT Tri-State Monument A 19th-century survey error corrected with sub-centimeter GPS
- The Loosdrecht Lakes ribbon islands Homes on strips of land left over from three centuries of peat digging
- Stowaway Live Pick any plane or satellite overhead and take its window seat
- Tousu at Tofuku-ji Japan's oldest surviving toilet, still standing after 500 years
- Unbound Merino x Carryology Meili Travel T-Shirt A lens cloth sewn into the hem of a travel tee
- Window Rock, Nevada A dry desert ridge that was once ice-age lake shoreline
- Backscatter Radar Site A Cold War missile radar decommissioned before it saw real use
- Diamond Creek The only spot on the Grand Canyon's 278 river miles a car can reach
- FAST Fiberglass Mold Graveyard Hundreds of abandoned molds behind a giant-statue workshop
- Karafuneya Coffee 150 parfait flavors, some built to feed 25 people
- León Gil de Palacio's Model of Madrid Madrid in 1830, built at 1:816 scale from wood, silk, and sand
- Oshirado A folk museum pavilion holding a thousand hooded horse-god effigies
- Saunasaari Helsinki's only public traditional smoke sauna, on its own island
- Hidden Figures Monument Katherine Johnson in bronze, on the campus she reached at ten
- Matchaful Ritual Bar A Williamsburg room where the whisking is the point
- Reading Maps Every journey in fiction, drawn on the real world
- Statue of Unity A sculpture that only works if you take its hand
- The Mushroom Shop A grocery that sells one kingdom and nothing else
- The Pickle Guys The last barrel on the Lower East Side
- Tour aux Figures A 78-foot anti-monument with a staircase hidden inside it
- On Location in New York City A24's guidebook to the city as a film set
- Braun Collection A design pilgrimage on the second floor of a strip mall
- Funatsu-Tainai Lava Tree Mold A cave in the shape of a tree that burned away
- Koolwink Motel Roadside Americana nobody ever renovated away
- NearbyWiki Everything Wikipedia knows about where you're standing
- Perrystead Dairy Cheese Vending Machine Cheese from a machine, in a garden, under the El
- Kawran Bazar A 2am fruit auction, and vendors who clear the tracks every time a train comes
- Yamanote 3D One loop of Tokyo's Yamanote Line — thirty stations, sixty-seven minutes, nothing to score
- Burpee Covered Bridge A 1913 kissing bridge, still posted at 3.1 metres
- Champion Lodgepole Pine A 110-foot pine that germinated sixty years before Plymouth Rock
- Praia de Santa Mónica Eleven kilometres of empty sand, and the resort that never opened
- St Olaf's Church, Wasdale Head England's smallest parish church, seating 39 under beams said to be Viking
- Saugerties Lighthouse An 1869 lighthouse you can sleep in, if you read the tide chart first
- The Living History Museum of Camping A museum where the exhibits have beds and you sleep in them
- Pont Mac-Racken A bridge in Mayenne, on the Mayenne, in Mayenne
- The Nostalgia Box A hundred consoles in West Perth, and you can play them
- Rooey II A giant roadside kangaroo holding a tub of Vegemite
- Submarine Safari A submarine that takes 44 people under Tenerife
- The Zetter Bloomsbury Six Georgian townhouses beside the British Museum
- Casa Bonavita A 1715 Maltese palazzo, seven years in the restoring
- Golf Course Browser Every US golf course on one map, filterable
- The Afro-Antillean Museum A chapel Panama Canal workers built themselves, in their off hours
- Emirates U-Dream Headrest A folding economy-class headrest that actually holds your head up
- The Mary Pit Head An 80-foot concrete winding frame, all that's left of Big Mary
- Medieval Strip Farming around Haxey Ridge-and-furrow fields plowed by hand, never flattened since
- Tuam Railway Station An 1860 Irish station, closed since the last freight run in 1993
- Yi Sun-Shin Monument A 16th-century Korean admiral's memorial in a Virginia strip-mall parking lot
- Gates of Heaven Synagogue A 200-ton 1863 synagogue rolled a mile through Madison to save it
- The Payphone at the Edge of the Forest A trailhead payphone turned into a place to say the goodbyes you never got to
- Biblioteca Umberto Eco Umberto Eco's 32,000-book personal library, opened exactly as he left it
- As Seen Below James Turrell's 100th Skyspace, a domed chamber open to the sky
- La Casa del Serpentello A Piedmont house facade hand-tiled by its owner, one unrepeated design at a time
- The Electrical Box Theatre A 6-by-3-foot utility box that may be the smallest performance space anywhere
- Fuel Tank Orca Mural A leaping orca turns Palmer Station's biggest fuel tank into Antarctica's most recognizable landmark
- Ike Towell's Grave A 1934 Texas headstone reading AN INFIDEL WHO HAD NO HOPE OF HEAVEN NOR FEAR OF HELL
- Leroy's Place A French Quarter gift shop guarded by a 10-foot hot-pink puppet cat
- Suns Cinema A DC movie theater whose rooms are decorated like the films it screens
- Bandai Co. Head Office Godzilla, Goku and Shin-chan standing life-sized on the pavement outside an office tower
- Drops of Rain Giant grey faces pouting and grinning out of clipped hedges above the Étretat cliffs
- Gedenkstein Melitta Bentz The memorial to the woman who fixed coffee with a punctured cup and her son's blotting paper
- Königshöhle The cave that lent a Copper Age culture its name, with a hole in the roof the Devil is blamed for
- Liebesweg Poppenhausen Parabolic mirrors set forty metres apart, so a whisper reaches whoever you walked up with
- Osaka's Midpoint The golden pin every distance sign in the city counts from
- Wabash & Erie Canal Park A restored stretch of the canal that hauled in the rails that put it out of business
- White Oak Avenue The tunnel of cedars in Granada Hills where the bicycles left the ground in E.T.
- The Birthplace of Kool-Aid Hastings Museum keeps the original fiberglass pitcher suit, harness and all
- Devil's Stone A Devon village turns a one-tonne rock every November to keep the Devil under it
- The House of David Bowie Hauptstraße 155, where strangers still tuck roses into the iron door
- Museo Casa del Mendrugo A Puebla courtyard dig turned up a burial 1,500 years older than the city
- Teddy Bear Park A Minnesota park where the teddy bears are bigger than real bears
- Belden Point Rotting pilings are all that's left of a Gilded Age gold conspirator's resort
- Crankshaft Crossing A Death Valley junction marked by a pile of abandoned engine crankshafts
- Detourmap 71,763 curious places, filterable by how obscure they are
- 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
- Tongyili & Tongdeli A Shanghai gangster's Suzhou retreat, built with doors that face each other
- The Starship Enterprise of Vulcan, Alberta A prairie town that leaned all the way into sharing its name with Spock's planet
- Humphrey the M5 Camel A homemade carnival float that never left its Somerset field
- Huset, Longyearbyen the world's northernmost fine dining, remade by Snøhetta
- The Illinois Goat Tower A 30-foot brick tower built exclusively for the family's climbing goats
- Station Melodies of Greater Tokyo A listening archive of the jingles that greet trains at the platform
- Borden Avenue Bridge One of only four U.S. bridges left that opens by sliding sideways
- Gate of the Orient A Suzhou tower so trouser-shaped it drew an official complaint about weird buildings
- Statue of Lennie Gwyther and Ginger Mick The nine-year-old who rode his pony 600 miles to watch the Sydney Harbour Bridge open
- The Solgrylle at the Blacksmith's Bridge Four relief figures on an Aarhus bridge, each caught mid-squat
- Steve Ovett's Foot All that survives of a stolen statue of an Olympic champion — a single bronze foot
- The Big Galah An 8-metre pink cockatoo marking the halfway point across Australia
- The Dog Line A row of chained guard dogs that once sealed off a Tasmanian convict peninsula
- Celestia The forested remains of an 1850s utopia deeded to God
- Hubbell Rubbell A rancher's decades of welded scrap-metal creatures roadside in Kansas
- National Gallery of Armenia Donatello and Chagall turn up among 42,000 works in Yerevan
- Porcelain Room A Rococo chamber at Aranjuez sheathed floor-to-ceiling in porcelain
- UGREEN Airplane Phone Holder A MagSafe clamp that grips a tray table, headrest, or luggage handle
- Blackjack Cemetery Resting place of Sarah Rector, once called the richest Black girl in the world
- Clasica Fiberglass Camper Trailer A 1,200-pound camper built in the spirit of 1970s European caravans
- Finca La Concordia An apple-orchard farm stay in Puebla built for accessibility from the ground up
- Friedrich Ebert Memorial The Heidelberg birthplace of Germany's first elected president
- Joolca HOTTAP Go A propane hot-water shower that packs entirely into its own tank
- Mathellaneous A free, fully hands-on math museum on a Kansas campus
- Pont de la Bâtiaz The last wooden covered bridge in Valais still open to cars, beneath a medieval castle
- Rex, the Beach Blvd Dinosaur A 1960s mini-golf dinosaur mascot Jacksonville saved and repainted in 2007
- Tropfsteinmaschine, 1996–2496 A basement museum machine growing a stalactite-stalagmite pair over 500 years
- The Wolf Trail A newly opened 2,171-mile thru-hike from the Baltic to the Adriatic across six countries
- Al-Saada Ruined hilltop palace in Saudi Arabia tied to the legend of Layla and Majnun
- Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Gardens One of only two Japanese gardens in Ireland, honoring a writer who bridged two cultures
- Musee des Annees 30 A Paris-suburb museum devoted entirely to the art and design of a single decade
- Hackney Live quotes from Uber, Lyft, Waymo, Curb, and Empower side by side
- Hoffmann Lime Kilns England's best-preserved Victorian ring kiln, free to walk through
- Lai Tak Tsuen Estate Four 1976 concrete drums, each hollow to the sky
- Parapack P-CAP A sun cap that folds into its own pouch
- A Better Route Planner Routes off your EV's actual battery state, not a guess
- Paris Is a Woman's Town (1929) A digitized 1929 guidebook for American women traveling solo to Paris
- Gates of the City (Portas da Cidade) A full-scale replica of the Azores' city gates, rebuilt in a Massachusetts mill town
- HM Prison Maze (Long Kesh) The sealed prison that held Northern Ireland's 1981 hunger strikers
- Payson Grotto A short hike ends at a hidden, swimmable pool inside a rock enclosure
- Scotland's Artisan Cheese Trail A drivable route linking Scotland's small-batch cheesemakers, farm to farm
- Tomb of Dai Anga A wet-nurse's 1671 mausoleum, more brilliant than the monuments that overshadow it
- Grand View Park (Turtle Hill) A hidden Sunset District hilltop with 360° views and no Twin Peaks crowd
- 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
- Vasco Translator V4 A pocket translator for 112 languages with free lifetime data built in
- Hastings Museum Kool-Aid Exhibit A fiber-optic river of Kool-Aid in the drink's birthplace
- Nashville's Parthenon A full-scale Parthenon — gilded 42-foot Athena and all — in Tennessee
- Cushy Airplane Seat A packable cure for board-hard economy seats
- Kitty's Cosmopolitan Club A Chicago speakeasy built around a -16°F bar
- The Longaberger Basket Building A seven-story office in the shape of a picnic basket
- Exarcheia, Athens The anarchist neighborhood that became an open-air gallery
- Macon, Georgia A small city built around the Allman Brothers and Otis Redding
- Casa Tepeji A blue-stucco townhouse on Roma's most cinematic street
- Doorless Shrine of Gogni The Georgian mountain shrine whose doors never survive
- Hello Kitty Cafe (Las Vegas) A bright pink container cafe tucked inside a Strip park
- Horror Studies Archive The world's only academic center devoted to the horror genre
- La Fantaisie's Living Gallery Suite A Paris hotel room turned nine-month art installation
- The Looming Head of Jānis Zvīdra An oversized Soviet stone head staring into a Latvian train junction
- Nusfjord One of Norway's oldest fishing villages, now a cultured Arctic getaway
- Promate Sea Slender Rx Dive Mask A scuba mask built to take real prescription lenses, from $60
- Retractable Cable Luggage Lock A pull-out steel cable that locks through any zipper or handle
- The 52-Year Simmering Noodle Soup A Bangkok beef noodle broth that has never stopped cooking since 1974
- Trovelo A private trip planner with no accounts, subscription, or servers
- Vancouver Crow Nesting Zone Thousands of crows roost on the same five blocks every night
- Yasujirō Ozu's Former Home Sleep in the century-old Kita-Kamakura house where Ozu spent his final years
- Casa Ideale A 1970s organic sculpture in Arles converted into gallery and private stay
- Cori Hornbæk Hotel A 1935 functionalist hotel on the Danish Riviera, carefully restored
- Four Seasons Hotel Cartagena An 18-year adaptive reuse of a 16th-century Franciscan cloister
- Hacienda Botanica Bill Bensley's personal retreat, now bookable as exclusive buyout
- Haskell Free Library & Opera House 1904 opera house where the US–Canada border runs through the seats
- Hotel Bella Vista Matteo Thun expands a 150-year family hotel inside Stelvio National Park
- Hotel Corazón A restored 18th-century finca owned by a photographer and horticulturist
- Leros, Greece Italy's most intact rationalist urbanism outside Italy, on a Greek island
- Mandai Rainforest Resort by Banyan Tree Seed-pod treehouse suites inside Singapore's working wildlife sanctuary
- Pocketbook Hudson An 1883 factory block converted into 46 rooms
- 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
- The Wedge A 5,500-square-foot brutalist chalet by the Green River in Whistler
- Traversée Cévenole An 81-mile bike-and-train loop through Europe's largest Dark Sky Reserve
- Underground Paris Map Pocket-folding guide to Paris catacombs and hidden subterranean spaces
- 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
- Yarlington Lodge at The Newt A Regency rectory on a Tudor estate, each room named for a literary heroine
- Adam/Albin Stockholm's most ambitious restaurant opening in years
- Amanvari Aman's first Mexico property, far from the Cabo most travellers know
- The Boat House, Shelter Island An iconic modernist house on Long Island's quietest corner
- Park Hyatt Tokyo (reopened) The Lost in Translation hotel reopens after a Studio Jouin Manku redesign
- RockRose Melides A Portuguese guesthouse where the brief is silence
- Serifos, Greece The Cycladic island architects keep moving to
- Uniworld Netherlands River Cruise An art-themed river cruise through the towns that made Vermeer and Van Gogh
- Amangiri Private Residences Six-bedroom desert villa with lap pool in Canyon Point, Utah
- Andaz Lisbon Patricia Urquiola-designed Lisbon hotel in vibrant color
- Rock climbing in Athens Athens has new bouldering routes within sight of the Parthenon
- Fairmont Hanoi Fairmont's first Vietnam location
- MA/NA Mayfair A new contemporary Japanese restaurant in London's Mayfair
- Eisbach Wave, Munich Munich's permanent river surf wave reopens
- Pittock Mansion Historic mansion with the best panoramic photo angle on downtown Portland
- Robert Mondavi Winery (reopened) Napa's Mondavi reopens after a 5-year renovation
- Rocky Butte, Portland An extinct volcanic cone with a 360° view inside Portland's city limits
- Shakti Prana Seven-suite Himalayan lodge that pairs trekking with high-end hospitality
- Sunset Cliffs Open Ceiling Cave A roofless sea cave with stairs you climb down at San Diego's Sunset Cliffs
- Auguste Self-funded flame-grilled Abruzzo in a Marylebone theatre dining room
- Cece's Public House's theatrical Notting Hill Italian
- The Desert Wave Awe-inspiring modernist statement in Palm Desert
- Hannah St Hotel David Flack's design coup on a triangular Melbourne block
- The Vietage by Anantara A boutique luxury train carriage along Vietnam's central coast
- The Subway, Zion (Bottom Up) Zion's slot-canyon subway hiked the non-technical way
- 34 Rue Louise-Emilie Two-bedroom Haussmannian apartment on a private Paris street
- Celia Carriage, British Pullman Baz Luhrmann's Midsummer-Night-in-the-Jazz-Age railway carriage
- CasaCau Six private apartments inside a 17th-century palazzo, steps from the Trevi
- Havasu Falls Blue-green waterfall on the Havasupai Reservation, deep in the Grand Canyon
- Hotel Julien A 16th-century Antwerp townhouse rebuilt as a hidden 21-room hotel
- Hotel Monroe First fully gluten-free hotel in the United States
- JW Marriott Tokyo Yabu Pushelberg minimalism, 30 floors above Takanawa Gateway
- Mitsu Robata-grill izakaya in Shoreditch with karaoke, DJs, and hand-painted noren
- Parisian Designer Pied à Terre Fourth-floor Marais apartment with slate-grey tile and matte plaster walls
- Six Senses London A wellness hotel with a biohacking lounge, in a Bayswater department store
- Why You Shouldn't Put a Suitcase on the Hotel Bed Suitcase wheels carry 58× the bacteria of a public toilet seat
- The Narrows Wade up the Virgin River through Zion's slot canyon
- Andrew's Honey Shop An Upper West Side honey shop with a working beehive in the front window
- Bar di Bello A Milanese aperitivo room transplanted to Silver Lake
- Casa Siza A Pritzker-Prize Álvaro Siza house in Mexico City that doubles as a public art gallery
- Cathedral Park Gothic stone arches under the St Johns Bridge, Portland
- Express Transit Which transit systems work with tap-to-pay in Apple Wallet, worldwide
- Idalia at Pillar Hall Fine dining inside a 30,000-sq-ft Victorian hall in West London
- Orient Express Corinthian A 220m sailing yacht that runs on wind, with art deco interiors by Maxime d'Angeac
- Weeki Wachee Springs State Park The Florida state park with a live mermaid show, running since 1947
- .Here, Baa Atoll A design-led Maldives retreat spread along a two-kilometre sandbank
- Fall Creek Falls, Tennessee A 256-foot waterfall, the tallest free-falling drop east of the Mississippi
- Kirby Cove A short Marin Headlands hike to a hidden Golden Gate Bridge view
- Worldwide Sidewalk Joy Map Curated map of free curb gardens, little libraries, and front-yard galleries
- The Fife Arms A Scottish Highlands hotel with a new Russell Sage-designed Coco Chanel secret room
- US National Park Finder All 63 US national parks, filterable by best month and what you actually want to do
- Valchoose Disposable Barf Bags Hospital-grade 1000mL vomit bags with a rigid plastic ring that holds itself open
- Wildwood Trail, Washington Park An in-city wilderness trail through Portland's Hoyt Arboretum
- Garden of Eden Swimming Hole A 10-minute hike off Route 9 to a wide sandy beach in the Henry Cowell Redwoods
- Gemini Giant A 28-foot fiberglass astronaut Muffler Man, restored and re-erected in Wilmington, Illinois
- Kai Hakone A 34-room ryokan on the Old Tokaido Road, refurbished around Edo-period travel rituals
- Nimmo Bay Resort A family-owned wilderness lodge in BC's Great Bear Rainforest — barefoot forest walks, floating saunas, cold snorkeling
- World's Largest Time Capsule, Seward NE A 45-ton concrete vault unsealed in 2025 after fifty years underground — Chevy Vega included
- Torre Da Bora A restored medieval tower in the Marche, with 360-degree views to three mountain ranges and the Adriatic
- Atacama Desert Superblooms Penguins, blooming desert, and 'sun wine' in the less-traveled half of Chile's Atacama
- Azuma Farm Koiwai A 24-room slow-living retreat on a working Japanese farm
- Blue Whale of Catoosa 55-foot concrete whale on Route 66, Oklahoma
- Capella Kyoto Kengo Kuma-designed hotel that feels like an old townhouse, not a chain
- Casa Nano 2.0 Japanese micro-house where every cubic inch does something
- Damnlines Live webcams of the queues outside viral New York food spots
- Diamond Fork (Fifth Water) Hot Springs Cascading turquoise hot pools with waterfalls between them
- Embassy of the Free Mind Amsterdam museum and rare-book library for Hermetic and occult manuscripts
- The Honu Villa, Joshua Tree Desert modernist house with a terrazzo-floored courtyard
- Hôtel Villa Colette, Cap Ferret Philippe Starck designs a coastal villa that's almost cartoonish on purpose
- Stillgram iPhone camera that erases the crowd around the landmark