Unlike the latest raft of luxury trains crisscrossing the globe, the Maid of Somerset goes nowhere at all. Ticket-holders ...

Here are the places to stay and visit that made TIME's 2026 list of the greatest places in the world.

When the weather is right, any Lake Placid winter tourist can buy the thrill of a lifetime—a ride down Mt. Van Hoeven-berg's famed bobsled run. He only has to lay down $1.50 and sign ...

"When AI surpasses humans on the intelligence ladder, we may not get a second chance to organize our response," writes Jon Truby.

One of the Middle Kingdom’s seven ancient capitals and an erstwhile Silk Road hub, Hangzhou now seems intent on hurtling ...

Soori Penang charts a more considered, contemporary path. Designed and owned by SCDA Architects founding principal Soo K. Chan, the 15-suite hotel mines his early years living in a historical ...

Centuries after the city’s heyday as a Silk Roads junction, the Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent opens this year in the capital, housed in a former tram depot and diesel station transformed by ...

One of the most intimate examples is Daidib Daidee, an off-the-grid farm stay in Nan province, near the Laos border. Drawing ...

Architect Efe Aydar describes his kulunk-sculpted designs at Avantgarde Refined Caves of Cappadocia as a collaboration with nature, tracing the natural contours of Cappadocia’s rock faces rather than ...

Ryan Watkins, Surf Abu Dhabi’s general manager, says the facility’s primary aim is simple: to produce the best waves, period. “There’s no natural surf break in the world that runs perfection 365 days ...

But this overlooked area is newly in the spotlight with the August opening of SMK Thy. Presiding over the verdant banks of the Limfjord strait, it is the first permanent satellite of the Statens ...

That year, the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development opened the Hunza Serena Hotel, an 82-room property designed to welcome a new type of tourist. Balconies open onto the wide-shouldered Rakaposhi ...