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A restored central arcade gathers cafés, delis and small food shops with a clear emphasis on Greek foods, making it an easy stop for browsing and casual eating.
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2 savesRestaurant7 photosVia Della Pasta
A small Kolonaki trattoria where an Italian family makes the pasta by hand, served from a short handwritten menu built around fresh pasta, truffle dishes and a daily ravioli.
1 saveOpera house8 photosOslo Opera House
Snøhetta designed this home of the Norwegian Opera & Ballet so that anyone can walk up its sloping white Carrara marble roof, which rises from Oslo Fjord to views over the harbour and city.
1 saveBusiness center8 photosInnovation Powerhouse
Offices and workrooms for young companies now fill this former Philips power house in Eindhoven, a striking industrial building reinvented as a hub for innovation and business collaboration.
1 saveUniversity5 photosGLC - Global Leadership Centre
Part of the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, the Global Leadership Centre is a university site in Oxford devoted to leadership, drawing students from around the world.
1 saveNon-profit organization8 photosPowerhouse Arts
A former Gowanus Canal powerhouse turned into a center for art fabrication, education and exhibitions, where ceramics, print and textile workshops operate alongside a vast, column-free hall for shows and performances.
1 saveCorporate office8 photosDyson Global Headquarters
The Singapore headquarters of Dyson is the corporate home of the brand behind cordless vacuums, hair dryers and stylers, air purifiers, fans and humidifiers, set beside a busy tourist area.
1 saveShopping mall8 photosBattersea Power Station
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's Grade II* listed power station on the Thames now holds over 170 shops, bars and restaurants, with original turbine halls, a control room bar and a lift up one of its chimneys.
1 saveBakery▶ Reel6 photos · 2 ReelsOven Manufactory
Oven Manufactory in Glyfada pairs a sleek, minimalist bakery room with a broad breakfast-and-brunch spread, from tiropita and pastries to egg dishes, sandwiches, coffee, matcha, and takeaway cakes.
1 saveBakery▶ Reel6 photos · 1 ReelToad small batch bakery
Toad is a small-batch bakery in the north of Kifisia baking cinnamon, cardamom and pistachio buns, sourdough bread and sandwiches, served alongside carefully made coffee.
1 saveTourist attraction8 photosStadttempel
Hidden behind ordinary house fronts in Vienna's old centre, the city's main synagogue has a theatre-like oval interior by Joseph Kornhäusel and was the only Viennese synagogue to survive Kristallnacht intact.
1 saveModern European restaurant8 photosSessions Arts Club
Candlelit tables fill the old judges' dining room of Sessions House, a Grade II* listed building in Clerkenwell, where a short, regularly changing Modern European menu meets a carefully chosen wine list.
1 saveArt gallery8 photosPad London Art+Design
PAD London Art+Design is a recurring exhibition that gathers leading names in contemporary design and art, with carefully curated displays from high-standard exhibitors and new designs to see each year.
1 saveArts organization5 photosFrieze
Frieze is the London arts organisation behind Frieze London and Frieze Masters, the art fairs that take over The Regent's Park each October, alongside outdoor works in the park's English Gardens.
1 saveArt center8 photosFrieze Masters
Old masters, antiquities and 20th-century icons share the stands at Frieze Masters, the historic-art counterpart to Frieze London, held for five days in The Regent's Park every October.
1 saveEvent venue8 photosFrieze London
Each October, tents rise in The Regent's Park for Frieze London, a major contemporary art fair where international galleries show new work, running alongside Frieze Masters and the outdoor Frieze Sculpture trail.
1 saveClothing store8 photosPEACE + CHAOS STORE
The Thessaloniki store of Greek label Peace+Chaos sells its own one-of-a-kind designs, from long dresses and statement coats to cycling bodysuits, in an interestingly arranged space.
1 saveHotel8 photosMIRA Earth Studios
Ten adults-only studios sit on a hilltop above the vineyards of Valle de Guadalupe, each with wall-to-wall windows, a private hot tub and fire pit, and lights, blinds and music run from a tablet.
1 saveHotel8 photosPark Hyatt New York
Hyatt's flagship Park Hyatt fills the first 25 floors of the 90-story One57 skyscraper across from Carnegie Hall, with unusually large rooms, a 350-piece art collection, an indoor saltwater pool and Spa Nalai.
1 saveSpa8 photosSpa Nalai
Spa Nalai sits inside the Park Hyatt New York, where booking a massage also opens up the pool, jacuzzi and hammam, all with views over Central Park.
1 saveResort hotel8 photosThe Broadmoor
Since 1918 this Colorado Springs resort has paired historic grandeur with Rocky Mountain scenery, and it holds the record as the world's longest-running Forbes Five-Star, AAA Five-Diamond resort.
1 saveEuropean restaurant8 photosThe Penrose Room
The Broadmoor's dressiest dining room, The Penrose Room pairs views over the water with tableside Caesar salads, a Martini and Manhattan service, and a menu that ranges from sushi to beef Wellington.
1 saveHotel8 photosCasa Gallareta
Architect-owners designed, built and furnished these minimalist cabins in a native arrayán forest on the edge of Villa La Angostura, linked by raised wooden walkways and looking out over Lake Correntoso.
1 saveResort hotel8 photosOne&Only Moonlight Basin
Lone Mountain fills the lobby balcony view at this Big Sky resort, where cabins, suites and rooms sit among the evergreens and dining runs from Akira Back's modern Japanese to ranch-sourced American at Wildwood.
1 saveHotel8 photosRosewood Mandarina
Set between rainforest and sea on the Riviera Nayarit, this Rosewood resort spreads across beach, flatlands and mountains, with plunge-pool suites, a cliffside speakeasy bar and a mountaintop Japanese-Mexican restaurant.
1 saveHotel8 photosWaldorf Astoria New York
After a prolonged closure, the Park Avenue landmark has reopened with 375 redesigned rooms and suites, the 1893 World's Fair clock back in its lobby, and Peacock Alley restored for cocktails and refined dining.
1 saveHotel8 photosDelano Miami Beach
The art deco Delano is back in South Beach after a renovation, pairing poolside bungalows and two feature pools with Gigi Rigolatto's first U.S. outpost, a lobby Rose Bar and direct access to the beach.
1 saveConvention center8 photosCARMEN WÜRTH FORUM
Reinhold Würth built this congress and culture centre in Künzelsau as a memorial to his wife Carmen, opening it on her 80th birthday in 2017. Sir David Chipperfield's office designed its clear, modern lines.
1 saveArt museum8 photosMuseum Würth 2
David Chipperfield Architects designed this 2020 gallery inside the Carmen Würth Forum, where rotating highlights from the Würth Collection's late 19th, 20th and 21st century holdings fill large, purpose-built halls.
1 saveTourist attraction8 photosRoyale Belge
A former insurance headquarters from 1970 in Watermael-Boitsfort, Royale Belge has been reworked into a mix of restaurants, co-working space, a gym with pools and a hotel, keeping its functionalist architecture.
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Solène Athens shifts from a daytime pastry-and-coffee spot to a compact French restaurant at night, with pale interiors, pistachio pastries, chocolate soufflé, and classic dishes like coq au vin.
1 savePrivate university8 photosBRAC University
Founded in 2001 by BRAC's Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, this private research university now occupies a 14-storey green campus in Merul Badda, designed by WOHA Architects with water, fountains and a rooftop jogging track.
1 saveNight club8 photosRitter Butzke
Ritter Butzke is a Berlin-born house and techno club with three rooms, each with its own mood, a Funktion One sound system and an open-air courtyard for starting the night.
1 saveDisco club7 photosAltromondo Studios
Three rooms of different music, a big main stage and immersive lighting fill Altromondo Studios, the Rimini club whose first opening in 1967 set the template for the Riviera's discos.
1 saveDisco club8 photosCocoricò
Open since 1989 and a byword for techno since the nineties, Cocoricò in Riccione is built around a crystal pyramid whose lights and lasers frame international DJs on its main dance floor.
1 saveBrunch restaurant8 photosNeroli Daylight Kitchen
Neroli Daylight Kitchen pairs a quiet garden with seasonal brunch plates, house-made breads, and a menu that shifts beyond standard Turkish breakfast in Teşvikiye.
1 saveRestaurant▶ Reel6 photos · 1 ReelΤο Καφενείο
Stuffed vine leaves, cabbage rolls and beef with orzo anchor the home-style Greek cooking at this Kolonaki restaurant, a wood-panelled dining room hung with artwork and filled mostly with neighbourhood regulars.
1 saveCafe9 photosPeek Out
Vrilissia's all-day hangout pours specialty coffee in the morning, serves brunch in a green garden and switches to cocktails and a young crowd at night, reinventing its theme every six months.
1 saveTurkish restaurant▶ Reel2Tek Alaf Caddebostan
The Caddebostan branch of Kuruçeşme's 2Tek Alaf brings its offal-forward fusion cooking to the Asian side, with mantı, lamb cooked on the mangal and a relaxed room for a couple of drinks.
1 saveHistorical landmark8 photosRoman Forum of Thessaloniki
Unearthed by chance during 1960s redevelopment, the square that once anchored public life in Roman Thessaloniki now sits below street level among apartment blocks, with colonnades, underground shops, baths and a small theatre on view.
1 saveHistorical landmark8 photosApsidal Hall of the Galerian Complex
Fragments of an apsidal hall from Galerius's palace sit open to view along a pedestrian stretch of central Thessaloniki, part of the city's most important monumental ensemble, built as the Roman world gave way to the Byzantine.
1 saveHistorical landmark8 photosRotonda
Built by the emperor Galerius around 300 AD, this brick rotunda has served as mausoleum, church and mosque, and still holds some of the finest early Christian mosaics in its 24.5-metre dome.
1 savePlace6 photosEgnatia
Thessaloniki's main commercial street runs three kilometres through downtown, from Demokratias Square at Vardari to Nea Egnatia, and carries the name of the Roman Via Egnatia that once passed near the city.
1 saveCollege8 photosClare College
Cambridge's second-oldest college sits just off King's Parade on the River Cam, with seventeenth-century Old Court, gardens on the Backs and an internationally renowned choir founded in 1866.
1 saveCollege8 photosPembroke College
Founded in 1347, Pembroke is the third-oldest college of the University of Cambridge, with quiet courtyards, wild gardens and the first chapel Christopher Wren ever built.
1 saveShopping mall8 photosPaddington Square
Directly in front of Paddington Station, this new shopping and dining quarter for West London gathers a two-floor market hall, shops, restaurants and outdoor steps used for lunch, live music and film screenings.
1 saveChapel8 photosAnnie Pfeiffer Chapel
The first building Frank Lloyd Wright completed at Florida Southern College, this 1941 chapel anchors his "Child of the Sun" campus, with stained glass blocks and a wire structure on top nicknamed "God's Bicycle Rack."
1 saveResort hotel8 photosLaa Montre Collection Hotels & Resorts
Close to IIT Kharagpur, this 78-room hotel pairs a carefully decorated lobby, pool and gym with Bhoomi, a multi-cuisine restaurant that draws families from town for dinner as well as overnight guests.
1 saveHotel8 photosHôtel Saint-Georges - Relais & Châteaux
Luke Edward Hall dressed this historic five-star chalet at the end of Megève's pedestrian street, mixing Savoyard wood and wall murals with the whimsy of an English country salon, steps from the ski lifts.
1 saveHotel8 photosLa Folie Barbizon
A four-star country house hotel and artists' residence where the village of Barbizon meets the Fontainebleau forest, its 21 rooms reimagined by around twenty artists, designers and craftspeople.
1 saveHotel8 photosHotel Hana
Named for a flower, Hotel Hana is a five-star hotel in Paris's 2nd arrondissement with Japanese-inspired, minimalist rooms, a cocktail bar and a private pool that guests can reserve, a short walk from the Opéra.
1 saveHotel8 photosCap d'Antibes Beach Hotel
Architect Bernard Dubois reshaped this 35-room hotel between the ports of Gallice and Crouton as a nod to Palm Springs houses, with its own beach, BABA's Jerusalem-inspired beach kitchen and the Michelin-starred Les Pêcheurs.
1 saveHotel8 photosHôtel La Ponche · Saint Tropez
A small five-star hotel in Saint-Tropez's old fishing quarter, overlooking La Ponche cove, where 21 rooms carry the legend of Brigitte Bardot and Françoise Sagan and a pontoon serves as a private pool.
1 saveCoffee shop8 photosMolly & Brie
Wood-fired bread, a prosciutto and brie sandwich and a properly made matcha latte anchor this Kifisia coffee shop, which also sells bowls, fruit dishes and small plates for the home.
1 saveNotable street8 photosS Cedros Ave
Palm trees line South Cedros Avenue, the spine of Solana Beach's Design District, where artwork, home goods, cafés and restaurants fill a compact street made for an unhurried stroll.
1 savePark8 photosFletcher Cove Beach Park
A sandy Pacific cove reached by a gentle ramp, with a park above of lawns, picnic tables, a lively playground and an overlook where neighbours gather in lawn chairs for sunset.
1 saveHotel8 photosvoco Solana Beach Del Mar
A former Holiday Inn on Highway 101 reworked as a retro-surf coastal hotel, voco Solana Beach Del Mar sits a short walk from Fletcher Cove Beach Park and the Cedros Avenue Design District.
1 saveRestaurant6 photosLa Marine
Fresh fish, moules frites and a foie gras terrine anchor the menu at this small, convivial restaurant near the sea in Biarritz, where the cooking leans casual and the ingredients seasonal.
1 saveWine bar6 photosSeabird
Natural wines chosen with a curious eye and seasonal, largely vegetarian small plates make this intimate Biarritz cave à manger, with outdoor tables where beachgoers and locals drift past, a rewarding place for dinner.
1 saveWine bar5 photosChéri Bibi
Tucked into a residential corner of Biarritz, Chéri Bibi pairs a natural wine list and walk-in cave with a weekly changing menu of seasonal, locally sourced plates made for sharing.
1 saveHotel6 photosHôtel de Silhouette
Across the street from Les Halles market, this four-star boutique hotel hides a shaded garden behind its street front, with a courtyard restaurant, a garden bar and stylish rooms a short walk from the beach.
1 saveArt gallery8 photosChamp Lacombe
Galerie Champ Lacombe is an art gallery on its namesake street in Biarritz, with a sister space in London, showing exhibitions by artists such as Charles Atlas and Norbert Schwontkowski.
1 saveRestaurant7 photosDE PUTA MADRE ET CHEZ BABETTE
A garden restaurant at Villa Magnan serving one set menu by candlelight among big flower arrangements and a resident donkey, with Chez Babette, a walk-in counter for sharing plates and local products.
1 saveCoffee shop5 photosLOBITA Marché
Inside Biarritz's Halles Centrales food market, LOBITA Marché is a specialty coffee counter pulling carefully made flat whites, noisettes and espresso tonics for shoppers doing their morning round of the stalls.
1 saveSouthwest France restaurant9 photosLe Basta
Views over the beach are the draw at Le Basta, a relaxed Southwest France restaurant in Biarritz where tuna, beef, pintxos and a solid wine-by-the-glass list fill the tables.
1 saveItalian restaurant▶ Reel4 photos · 6 ReelsMa Che Vuoi
Save this central Athens bar-restaurant for pizza and spritzes, with pasta, focaccia, arancini, and cocktails that make it work for a quick aperitivo or a longer meal.
1 saveBrasserie8 photos · 5 ReelsGinger Concept
Ginger Concept fills an old industrial building with a five-meter ceiling, large openings, and a peaceful courtyard, serving brunch, coffee, dinner, sushi, and wines by the glass near Chania’s old town.
1 saveSteak house5 photosO Agrios The Dirty Butcher
Behind the former Athens Hilton in Ilisia, this butcher's tavern puts its own meat counter on show at the entrance and grills chops, steaks and offal for a lively, meat-focused dinner.
1 saveHotel8 photosKimpton Vividora Barcelona
A 151-room boutique hotel on a pedestrian street in the Gothic Quarter, with Equipo Creativo interiors modelled on old Barcelona apartments and a rooftop pool terrace looking out across the city.
1 saveHotel8 photosDoubleTree by Hilton Singapore Robertson Quay
The former Hotel Miramar on the Singapore River has been reworked as DoubleTree by Hilton's first Singapore hotel, a 344-key riverfront property in Robertson Quay with a pool deck, kids' club and pickleball courts.
1 saveHotel8 photosFinancial City Hotel Chengdu-Mgallery Collection
Chengdu's newest MGallery Collection hotel pairs richly decorated interiors with comfortable rooms and open views, right beside a busy commercial district and a metro station.
1 saveSelf-catering accommodation8 photosLinden House
A self-catering guesthouse in Glengarriff's Dromgarriff Rainforest, renovated by Schemata Architects, with an outdoor sauna, a well-equipped kitchen, views over the bay and hiking trails through the forest on its own grounds.
1 saveKebab shop5 photosThanasis - Kebab | Monastiraki
Thanasis grills its kebabs at the foot of the Acropolis beside Monastiraki Square, serving them on soft pita with onion, parsley and yogurt to tables that spill along the whole block.
1 saveRestaurant3 photosBungalow7 Athens
Once Balux, this revamped Glyfada seafront spot is an all-day beach club and restaurant, pairing Mediterranean-sushi fusion with an adults-only pool, sun beds and a '60s beach-house interior facing the sea.
1 saveHotel12 photosAmalia Hotel Delphi
Built in 1965 to designs by the architect Valsamakis, this modernist hotel sits just outside Delphi town, with balconies, gardens and a large pool looking over a sea of olives to the Gulf of Corinth.
1 saveHotel8 photosAugustine Hotel, Prague
Beer brewed only for the house is poured beneath 13th-century vaults at this five-star Lesser Town hotel, set in a former monastery that still adjoins a working one.
1 saveGreek restaurant7 photosERGON House Athens
ERGON House Athens folds a Greek restaurant into a market-like ground floor, with deli shelves, grocery counters, an open kitchen, and a large indoor olive tree energising the room.
1 saveHotel8 photosRegent Phu Quoc
On the white sands of Phu Quoc's western coast, this Regent resort faces the Gulf of Thailand and its sunsets, with five pools, six dining venues and a kids' club built around a treehouse.
1 saveEuropean restaurant8 photosKitchen Table
Chefs cook and serve a daily changing Modern British tasting menu around a horseshoe-shaped counter at this two-Michelin-star Fitzrovia restaurant run by James Knappett and sommelier Sandia Chang.
1 saveBrasserie8 photosMaison François
Just behind Fortnum's on Duke Street St James's, this French brasserie serves classical cooking in a vast, high-ceilinged room, with trolleys wheeling steak tartare and desserts between the tables.
1 saveMediterranean restaurant8 photosMorchella
Mediterranean sharing plates come out of an open kitchen in a former bank just off Exmouth Market, where Morchella is known for its focaccia, mussel pil pil, spanakopita and crackling-topped pork jowl.
1 saveHotel8 photosCrafted at Powdermills
Lakes and woodland surround this boutique country hotel outside Battle, where guests swim in the lake, sweat in a lakeside sauna, play padel and eat in a pub set beside the outdoor pool.
1 saveCricket club8 photosStreatham & Marlborough Cricket Club
Two well-kept cricket pitches on Dulwich Common host one of south London's biggest clubs, with men's, women's and junior teams, a large and fast-growing girls' and women's section, and players aged from 5 to 70-plus.
1 saveCafe9 photosQueen Bee Athens
A modern bakery-cafe on a Kolonaki corner, Queen Bee pairs Italian coffee with big, airy croissants, Greek kagianas and spanakopita, plus a long brunch menu served indoors or out.
1 saveCorporate office8 photosJeronimo Faria Lima
Perkins&Will designed this LEED Gold-certified office development in Itaim Bibi, facing Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, pairing leasable corporate floors with a landscaped plaza open to the public.
1 saveCafe▶ ReelApartment
In the Topağacı corner of Nişantaşı, Apartment is a calm, homely cafe serving V60 filter coffee alongside banana bread, sourdough toasties and breakfasts cooked in its own kitchen.
1 saveCafe8 photosThe Sanctuary
A quiet Christian cafe in Cooke Town where coffee and cake downstairs lead up to a gift shop, a music room, a small library, a chapel and a rooftop terrace.
1 saveJuice shop5 photosThe Cold Press
Cold-pressed juices and dense, water-free smoothies come out of this small Bilekahalli kitchen, which works mostly as a delivery and subscription operation, with no sugar or preservatives added to anything it makes.
1 saveBakery8 photosThe Deli
Handmade French pastries and espresso are the draw at this small bakery inside The Den, the LXR Hotels & Resorts property in Whitefield, where the range is short but well made.
1 saveBuffet restaurant8 photosThe Creek
An all-day buffet restaurant at The Den in Whitefield, where Indian spices meet Mediterranean cooking and live counters turn out pizza, pasta, dosa and grills, with seating looking out over the pool.
1 saveMediterranean restaurant8 photosLayla – An Indian -Terranean Love Story
Twenty-one floors up at The Den hotel in Whitefield, Layla blends Indian spice with Mediterranean cooking, served in an artfully lit dining room or out on a rooftop terrace with cabanas and wide skyline views.
1 saveHotel8 photosThe Den Bengaluru, LXR Hotels and Resorts
Whitefield's LXR hotel pairs spacious, soundproofed rooms with a rooftop Mediterranean restaurant, Layla, and The Creek's generous buffets, making it a polished base for business trips, conferences and weekend staycations in Bengaluru.
1 saveArt gallery8 photosEDJI Gallery
Ultracontemporary art by emerging and early-career artists from around the world fills this Ixelles gallery, which toured Europe and the US as a nomadic programme before settling into a permanent space in Brussels.
1 saveHotel8 photosThe Stanley Hotel
F.O. Stanley's 1909 hotel in Estes Park, the place that sparked Stephen King's The Shining, now spreads across four properties with ghost and history tours, a hedge maze and Rocky Mountain views.
1 saveHotel8 photosDauphine Orleans Hotel
Once a private home and later a notorious bordello, this Creole cottage-style French Quarter hotel spreads across three buildings with brick courtyards, a saltwater pool and a haunted bar called May Baily's Place.
1 saveHotel8 photosHotel Monteleone
A family-owned French Quarter hotel on Royal Street since 1886, with the rotating Carousel Bar, a rooftop pool and bar, and Literary Suites billed as a muse for great authors.
1 saveTourist attraction8 photosThe Skeleton House
Each Halloween this St Charles Avenue house fills its yard with hundreds of costumed skeletons, every one carrying a pun on a celebrity, musician or film character, and it changes every year.
1 saveFarm8 photosRichardson Adventure Farm
Home to what it bills as the world's largest corn maze, this Spring Grove farm runs from a spring tulip festival through fall pumpkin picking to choose-and-cut Christmas trees.
1 saveMuseum8 photosThe Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze: Hudson Valley
More than 7,000 jack o'lanterns, all hand-carved on site, light up the 18th-century riverside grounds of Van Cortlandt Manor each autumn, set to synchronized lighting and an original soundtrack.
1 saveCemetery8 photosSleepy Hollow Cemetery
Washington Irving lies in this hillside cemetery above the Hudson, where Gilded Age mausoleums, headstones from the 1700s and the Headless Horseman Bridge bring The Legend of Sleepy Hollow close.
1 saveHotel8 photosEstancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa
A hacienda-style resort across from UCSD, set in 10 acres of gardens with courtyards, adobe fireplaces, a saltwater pool, a full-service spa and several restaurants between La Jolla and Del Mar.
1 saveHistorical place museum8 photosThe Witch House at Salem
Judge Jonathan Corwin's 17th-century home is the only building still standing in Salem with direct ties to the 1692 witch trials, its rooms furnished with period pieces and notes on the era.
1 saveLocal history museum8 photosSalem Witch Museum
Housed in a former church in downtown Salem since 1972, this museum retells the 1692 witch trials through thirteen life-size stage sets, then traces how the image of the witch took shape over time.
1 saveRestaurant8 photosThe Cottage in the Wood
Despite its name, this is a hotel restaurant set high above Malvern in eight acres of woodland, with a relaxed Brasserie, a seven-course tasting menu at 1919 and sweeping hillside views.
1 saveVegetarian cafe and deli9 photosAnana Coffee & Food
Specialty coffee roasted in small batches at its own Cholargos roastery fills the cups at this vegetarian café on Praxitelous, set in an old passage with a courtyard terrace and mostly vegan baking.
1 saveGreek restaurant8 photosHelios
Greek and Turkish cooking share the menu at this seafront restaurant on Patina in the Fari Islands, where lamb chops, moussaka and a lobster-laden seafood platter come with open sea views and sunsets over the water.
1 saveIndian restaurant8 photosKanishka by Atul Kochhar
Atul Kochhar's Mayfair restaurant on Maddox Street gathers regional dishes from across India, North-East India especially, and gives them a contemporary twist, with wine and whisky pairings matched to every plate.
1 saveTourist attraction8 photosCBR Building
White concrete honeycomb panels and orange-tinted windows make this late-1960s office block in Watermael-Boitsfort one of Brussels' most recognisable functionalist buildings, and its ground-floor bar lets you sit inside and take in the space.
1 saveProtestant church8 photosGrundtvigs Kirke
Named for theologian NFS Grundtvig, this 1920s church in Bispebjerg merges expressionism and Gothic architecture, with a western facade shaped like a church organ and an interior of unadorned yellow brick.
1 savePerforming arts theater8 photosBarbican Centre
Theatre, concerts, cinema, art and a library share one Brutalist complex, set among the Barbican Estate's raised walkways, water features and a conservatory where Japanese koi swim.
1 saveHotel8 photosRimrock Banff, Emblems Collection
The former Rimrock Resort Hotel reopened in 2026 as North America's first Emblems Collection hotel, Accor's ultra-luxury brand, set high above the Bow Valley with sweeping mountain views across Banff National Park.
1 saveBistro8 photosAilìse Bar & Bistro
Gin anchors this bar and bistro in OKU Hotel Taichung, where a three-storey liquor tower, billed as Taiwan's tallest indoor one, rises over plates built around seasonal ingredients and paired drinks.
1 saveHotel8 photosOKU Hotel
A former department store in Taichung's old quarter now holds this 80-room Art Deco boutique hotel, built around a three-storey wine tower in Ailìse Bar, the city's first gin-focused bar.
1 savePark8 photosThe High Line
Trains once ran along this elevated freight line; now it is a 1.5-mile park of gardens, art and old track, threading between Hudson Yards and Chelsea Market with views over Manhattan and the Hudson.
1 saveLive music venue8 photosLa Seine Musicale
Set on Île Seguin in the Seine, this concert complex wraps its auditorium in a glass sail that glows over the river at night, staging everything from symphonies and jazz to ballet, musicals and ciné-concerts.
1 saveHeritage building8 photosHardwick Old Hall
Bess of Hardwick's remodelled family home, built on the site of her birthplace, is now a roofless four-storey shell beside the grander New Hall, still holding some of the finest plasterwork of its age.
1 saveMuseum8 photosKelmscott Manor
Called ‘Heaven on Earth’ by William Morris, this 17th-century Cotswold manor near the start of the Thames holds his designs, Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Rossetti and work by Jane and May Morris.
1 saveHotel8 photosWotton House
A 400-year-old country estate hotel near Dorking, once home to the Evelyn family, set in 13 acres with England's first Italian gardens and walks out towards Leith Hill.
1 saveCastle8 photosWindsor Castle
William the Conqueror chose this site above the River Thames, and Windsor Castle is now the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world, with State Apartments, St George's Chapel and Queen Mary's Dolls' House.
1 saveRestaurant9 photosDifferent Beast
Tucked a little out of sight in central Kifissia, Different Beast is an Australian-style café known for inventive brunch plates, excellent coffee and an industrial-edged interior with outdoor seating.
1 saveCoffee shop8 photosZudi Coffee Co
Right outside KAT metro station in Marousi, this specialty coffee bar pours precise espresso and filter brews, from bright Ethiopian shots to Peruvian Geisha, in a clean, minimalist room.
1 saveArt center8 photosSKAC(SKWAT KAMEARI ART CENTRE)
Under the train tracks in quiet Kameari, this SKWAT project fills a disused space with floor-to-ceiling art books, second-hand vinyl and exhibitions, all framed by construction scaffolding.
1 saveHistorical landmark8 photosDerinkuyu Underground City
Carved some 85 metres down into soft tuff, Derinkuyu is a multi-level refuge of stables, shared kitchens, churches and wine presses, built as shelter from attack and opened to the public in 1965.
1 saveCoffee shop8 photosBacha Coffee
The original Bacha Coffee sits inside the Dar el Bacha palace museum, pouring from a list of more than 200 pure Arabica coffees in richly decorated salons off a courtyard of pomegranate and orange trees.
1 saveHotel8 photosAmanjena
Rose-hued pisé walls, soaring arches and reflection pools framed by the Atlas Mountains give this Aman resort just outside Marrakech the feel of a quiet oasis among palm groves and olive trees.
1 saveHotel8 photosLes Deux Tours
Architect Charles Boccara conceived this Palmeraie hotel as an Arab-Andalusian village, with 44 rooms and suites, private pool suites and a hammam scattered through three hectares of labyrinthine gardens, pools and fountains.
1 saveCultural landmark7 photosJemaa el-Fnaa
By day snake charmers, henna painters and juice sellers fill Marrakesh's central square; after dark it turns into an open-air food market ringed by musicians, games and circles of dancing locals.
1 saveBar8 photosLe Club - Bar de La Mamounia
Le Club is the bar inside La Mamounia, Marrakesh's palace hotel, where carefully worked cocktails make a fitting pause after a stroll through the hotel's gardens and grand halls.
1 saveMoroccan restaurant8 photosLe Marocain By La Mamounia
Three floors of carved wood, zellige and arabesque plaster make this riad in La Mamounia's gardens a Marrakech institution, where chef Rachid Agouray cooks Moroccan specialities to live violin and lute.
1 saveResort hotel8 photosLa Mamounia
Prince Mamoun's 18th-century gardens of orange, olive and palm trees surround this Marrakesh palace hotel inside the medina walls, where Churchill, Chaplin and Hitchcock once stayed and Pierre Hermé runs a pastry boutique.
1 saveBook store8 photosLibrairie Booklore - Marrakech
Wooden shelves with hidden panels hold a carefully chosen mix of rare and unexpected books in French, English and Arabic at this cultural bookshop in Marrakech, which also runs workshops for children and adults.
1 saveHotel8 photosNobu Hotel Marrakech, an SLH Hotel
A rooftop pool bar with views over Marrakech to the Atlas Mountains anchors this Nobu hotel near the Medina, where days by the pool turn into evenings of DJs, live shows and cocktails.
1 saveTourist attraction8 photosZicheng
In Jiaxing's Nanhu District, Zicheng is a reconstructed historic walled site where you can climb the front wall and fortress, see surviving original foundations and linger on open grass.
1 saveHotel8 photosHOTEL LULU
Raw concrete, brushed steel and vintage design pieces shape this 27-room Montparnasse boutique hotel, where a glass-roofed winter garden serves breakfast, coffee and piano-bar evenings a short walk from the Luxembourg Gardens.
1 saveHistorical landmark8 photosEl Capricho de Gaudí
Ceramic sunflowers and a tower mark this early villa by Antoni Gaudí in Comillas, one of the few buildings he designed outside Catalonia and a compact study in colourful, nature-inspired modernism.
1 saveTourist attraction8 photosNavy Pier
Stretching more than six city blocks into Lake Michigan, this 1916 pier mixes carnival rides, lake cruises, fireworks and theatre with sweeping views back toward the Chicago skyline.
1 savePark8 photosMillennium Park
Cloud Gate's mirrored curves, Frank Gehry's Jay Pritzker Pavilion and the Crown Fountain's digital faces share this downtown park, an open-air town square of art, architecture and gardens hosting hundreds of free cultural programs.
1 savePlace8 photosChicago Riverwalk
A 1.25-mile lower-level path along the main branch of the Chicago River in the Loop, putting walkers at water level beneath Marina City, Merchandise Mart and a run of landmark towers.
1 saveArt gallery8 photosWhitechapel Gallery
Picasso's Guernica made its only British appearance here in 1939; today this East End institution, founded in 1901, stages temporary contemporary shows across nine spaces, with no permanent collection and many free displays.
1 saveHotel8 photosGrand Hotel Bellevue London
A Victorian residence on leafy Norfolk Square, a short walk from Paddington Station, reworked by architect Fabrizio Casiraghi into compact, cocoon-like rooms and a bar lined with bespoke BODE embroideries.
1 saveSpa8 photosAman Spa
Instead of a locker room, every guest at The Connaught's Mayfair spa gets a private suite with its own dressing area and steam shower, plus a grotto-like pool with a waterfall.
1 saveRestaurant8 photosJean-Georges at The Connaught
Jean-Georges Vongerichten's all-day restaurant at The Connaught sets British and Connaught classics beside South-east Asian flavours, in a bright Mayfair room with large windows onto Mount Street and a playful afternoon tea.
1 saveHaute French restaurant8 photosHélène Darroze at The Connaught
Hélène Darroze's three-Michelin-star restaurant inside The Connaught pairs seasonal French cooking rooted in her southwest French heritage with a warm, wood-panelled room designed by Pierre Yovanovitch.
1 saveCocktail bar8 photosThe Connaught Bar
A martini trolley wheeled to your table, with a choice of house bitters, is the signature ritual at this platinum-leafed, Cubist-inspired cocktail bar inside The Connaught hotel in Mayfair.
1 saveHotel8 photosThe Connaught
Named for Queen Victoria's son Arthur, Duke of Connaught, this Mayfair hotel opened in 1897 and pairs original wood panelling and a mahogany staircase with a three-Michelin-star Hélène Darroze restaurant, the Connaught Bar and an Aman Spa.
1 saveHotel8 photosClaridge's
Founded in 1812, Claridge's is a Mayfair grand hotel whose rooms range from Victorian opulence to Art Deco glamour, with a classic afternoon tea, a spa and New York's Dante cocktail bar under its roof.
1 saveRestaurant8 photosThe Promenade
Afternoon tea under chandeliers and mirrored ceilings is the main event at The Dorchester's Promenade in Mayfair, though the floral, plush-seated room also serves breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner to live piano.
1 saveCantonese restaurant8 photosChina Tang at The Dorchester
Sir David Tang's basement restaurant beneath The Dorchester recreates pre-war Shanghai in art deco style, serving classical Cantonese cooking from over 30 kinds of dim sum to a lacquered Peking duck.
1 saveEnglish restaurant8 photosThe Orangery Restaurant
An early-18th-century Baroque greenhouse in the Kensington Palace gardens, now serving afternoon tea with warm scones, finger sandwiches and loose-leaf teas beneath high ceilings and tall windows.
1 saveMarket8 photosPortobello Road Market
Stalls line both sides of this long Notting Hill road, selling vintage clothes, antiques, silver jewellery and street food beneath rows of colourful houses, with cafes, pubs and bookshops along the way.
1 saveMuseum8 photosSir John Soane's Museum
Sir John Soane kept his London home crammed with antiquities, casts, paintings and models, and it has stayed exactly as he left it in 1837, down to an Egyptian sarcophagus in the basement.
1 saveClothing store8 photosDover Street Market
Rei Kawakubo and Adrian Joffe's multi-floor fashion store mixes Comme des Garçons with avant-garde labels and streetwear, displaying clothes like art installations, with Rose Bakery waiting on the top floor.
1 saveCocktail bar8 photosThe Donovan Bar
Brown's Hotel's cocktail bar in Mayfair celebrates photographer Terence Donovan, with his black-and-white images on the walls and a menu from Maestro Salvatore Calabrese and Federico Pavan that revives the classics with modern techniques.
1 savePresbyterian church8 photosKyungdong Presbyterian Church
Red brick walls with barely a window hide a landmark of Korean modern architecture: Kim Swoo-geun's 1981 church, where daylight falls only onto the cross above the altar.
1 saveBoarding school8 photosSt Stephen's College
Nearly 40 acres of wooded countryside on the Stanley Peninsula hold St Stephen's College, the largest secondary school in Hong Kong, a co-educational boarding school with a historic campus, chapel and heritage trail.
1 saveFederal government office7 photosNational Co-operative Development Corporation
The National Co-operative Development Corporation, a statutory body set up by an Act of Parliament in 1963 to promote India's cooperative sector, works from an unusual concrete building in Hauz Khas's Siri Institutional Area.
1 saveHistorical landmark8 photosBromley-by-Bow Gas Works
Packed tightly together in London E3, the Bromley-by-Bow gasholders form an unusually dense cluster of old gasometers, still standing long after the gasworks they served closed down.
1 saveHistorical landmark8 photosGasometers of Vienna
Four listed brick gas holders in Simmering, once part of the city's gasworks, were rebuilt in the late 1990s into a single site of shops, apartments, music studios and a concert hall under glass domes.
1 savePark8 photosGasholder Park
Inside the restored iron guideframe of Gasholder No. 8, a circular lawn ringed by a mirrored canopy sits on the bank of Regent's Canal, looking over St Pancras Lock at King's Cross.
1 saveParking lot5 photosEdificio MULBAR
A 1974 brutalist block by Alejandro Zohn, built entirely in reinforced concrete, this downtown Guadalajara landmark houses a large self-park garage three blocks from the Cathedral, above street-level shops.
1 saveMarket8 photosMercado Libertad - San Juan de Dios
Under Alejandro Zohn's folded concrete roofs, Guadalajara's great downtown market spreads across three levels of produce, sweets, crafts, leather and electronics, with a whole floor given over to tapatío cooking.
1 saveMonument5 photosEl Pájaro de Fuego
Mathias Goeritz designed this abstract concrete bird in 1957 as the entrance landmark for Luis Barragán's Jardines del Bosque development, its open wings and skyward beak rising 12.5 metres above a Guadalajara crossroads.
1 saveBuilding8 photosHospicio Cabañas
José Clemente Orozco's 57 frescoes, crowned by the Man of Fire on the central dome, fill the chapel of this UNESCO-listed early-19th-century orphanage, now a museum steps from the Mercado San Juan de Dios.
1 saveMuseum8 photosZayed National Museum
Sheikh Zayed's life and the story of the UAE, from pearl diving and trade to nationhood, fill the country's national museum, housed beneath towering falcon-feather wings in Saadiyat Cultural District.
1 saveHotel8 photosKimpton Tres Rios - All Inclusive by IHG
Set inside a 340-acre nature preserve of rivers, cenotes and mangroves on the Riviera Maya, this resort is the first Kimpton anywhere to run all-inclusive, with kayaking and eco-trails on the property.
1 saveBotanical garden8 photosSingapore Botanic Gardens
Founded in 1859 and Singapore's first UNESCO World Heritage Site, these 74 hectares of tropical gardens hold more than 10,000 types of plants, with the region's most significant living collection of orchids, gingers, palms and cycads.
1 saveHotel8 photosThe Dean Berlin
Irish spirit meets West Berlin calm at this design-led Charlottenburg hotel, where bold colour, sculptural lighting and art-filled rooms sit above Benedict, the all-day breakfast spot.
1 saveHotel8 photosHotel Dios
A small boutique hotel in an old La Candelaria house, Dios pairs old bones and modern design with a courtyard wood fire, a restaurant and a wine cellar, steps from the Botero and Gold museums.
1 saveBar8 photosApache Rooftop Bar
A 360-degree view of Bogotá sets the scene at this small rooftop bar on top of The Click Clack Hotel near Park 93, where burgers, inventive cocktails and live music or DJs fill the evenings.
1 saveHotel8 photosThe Click Clack Hotel Bogotá
Vinyl, noir and vintage touches shape this boutique hotel in Chapinero, where rooms hide small surprises and the breakfast buffet, heavy on Colombian exotic fruit and eggs cooked to order, is the highlight of a stay.
1 saveFlea market8 photosUsaquén Flea Market
Every Sunday, a long street in Usaquén fills with artisans selling new handmade crafts, art, ruanas, hats and bags, alongside stands of coffee, chocolate, arepas, empanadas and obleas.
1 saveColombian restaurant8 photosAndrés Carne de Res Chía
The original Andrés Carne de Res is a sprawling Chía restaurant and party hall, filled with handmade decorations, roaming costumed performers and hundreds of tables, where dinner often turns into dancing late into the night.
1 saveHistorical landmark8 photosLaguna del Cacique Guatavita
This mountain lake near Sesquilé, an ancient Muisca site tied to Latin America's golden legend, is seen on a guided walk past three viewpoints above the water.
1 saveClothing store7 photosAgua Bendita
Swimwear, beachwear and accessories made by hand by Colombian artisans fill this Agua Bendita shop in Centro Comercial El Retiro, from embroidered bikini tops to pareos and resort dresses.
1 saveTourist attraction8 photosCalle de los Anticuarios
Despite its name, this Bogotá street now leans toward fashion and Colombian design, with shops selling clothing, homeware, crafts and jewellery made locally rather than through mass production.
1 saveColombian restaurant8 photosEl Chato
Chef Álvaro Clavijo's Chapinero Alto restaurant reworks Colombian ingredients into inventive plates, served à la carte downstairs or as a tasting menu upstairs, and was named Latin America's best restaurant in 2025.
1 saveMountain peak8 photosMonserrate
Rising about 500 metres above Bogotá, this sacred peak is reached by cable car, funicular or a steep stair hike, rewarding the climb with a hilltop church and a view across the whole city.
1 saveHistorical landmark8 photosPlaza de Bolívar
Bogotá's main square has been Plaza Mayor, Plaza de la Constitución and, since 1846, Plaza de Bolívar, framed by the Primary Cathedral, the National Capitol and the Palace of Justice.
1 saveHeritage museum8 photosGold Museum
Tens of thousands of pre-Columbian gold pieces, from Muisca, Quimbaya, Zenú and other cultures, fill four floors of Bogotá's Museo del Oro, which explains gold as ritual and sacred material rather than wealth.
1 saveArt museum8 photosBotero Museum
Fernando Botero's oversized figures fill a colonial-era house in La Candelaria, hung alongside the Picassos, Monets and Dalís he collected and donated, in small rooms arranged around a central courtyard.
1 saveModern art museum8 photosMuseum Dhondt Dhaenens
Behind a black facade in a residential corner of Sint-Martens-Latem, this compact museum shows contemporary art in light-filled rooms, alongside a permanent collection and an intriguing Wunderkammer worth exploring slowly.
1 saveHistorical landmark8 photosWintercircus
A former circus arena and Fiat garage in central Ghent, Wintercircus now holds a free public square, startup campus, rooftop bar and concert space under one domed roof.
1 saveUniversity library8 photosBook Tower
Ghent's "fourth tower" on the skyline is Henry van de Velde's modernist Boekentoren, a working university library whose restored Belvedère, reached with a guide, gives a sweeping panorama over the city.
1 saveModern art museum8 photosSMAK - Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art
Set in Ghent's Citadel Park, S.M.A.K. works as an artistic laboratory, placing pieces from its own collection in dialogue with contemporary artists from around the world through frequently changing exhibitions.
1 saveRestaurant8 photosseth and manni's
DJs Seth Troxler and Manfredi Romano, known as DJ Tennis, run this restaurant, bar and deli at Marina Botafoc, built around roast meats led by prime rib and an inventive cocktail list.
1 saveMuseum8 photosFondation Beyeler
Fondation Beyeler pairs Renzo Piano architecture with changing modern and contemporary exhibitions, a park with free-entry gardens, and a café beside the museum in Riehen.
1 saveSpace of remembrance8 photosSteilneset Memorial Site
Ninety-one people burned as witches in 17th-century Finnmark are remembered here, in a long memorial hall by architect Peter Zumthor and a glass pavilion housing Louise Bourgeois' burning chair.
1 saveCultural center8 photosBOZAR
Close to Brussels Central Station, Victor Horta's Art Deco Centre for Fine Arts gathers concerts, exhibitions, films, dance, theatre and talks under one roof, alongside a two-Michelin-starred restaurant.
1 saveTrain station8 photosBrussel-Centraal
Brussels' main station lies mostly underground, a Victor Horta and Maxime Brunfaut design where trains leave minutes apart beneath a great hall, all within a short walk of the Grand-Place.
1 saveTourist attraction8 photosAtomium
An elementary iron crystal magnified 165 billion times, this stainless-steel cube on its tip was the flagship of Expo 58 and now holds exhibitions, connecting tubes and a panoramic sphere above Brussels.
1 saveBuilding5 photosDen Bell
In Antwerp's 2018 postal district stands Den Bell, a building that carries its own name on the city map, making it a useful point of reference for anyone finding their way around this part of Antwerp.
1 saveScenic spot7 photosTwelve Apostles
Limestone stacks rise straight out of the Southern Ocean beside dramatic cliffs at this lookout in Port Campbell National Park, the best-known stop on the Great Ocean Road and most striking at sunrise or sunset.
1 saveArt museum8 photosDavid Geffen Galleries
A new building at LACMA, the David Geffen Galleries present a large collection spanning every era and region, with rooms that run continuously from Asian to Persian to European art.
K1 saveArt museum
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The art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, and alongside the Wallraf-Richartz the city's oldest, Kolumba sets medieval religious art beside modern work in a minimal concrete building raised over the ruins of St Kolumba church.
1 saveArt museum8 photosKunsthaus Bregenz
Peter Zumthor's glass-clad Kunsthaus shows international contemporary art in the light of Lake Constance, its column-free galleries designed to be lit by daylight filtered through etched glass.
1 saveTransportation service8 photosCharleroi Central Train Station
Officially Gare de Charleroi-Sud, this classical station building is one of Belgium's busiest rail hubs, with hourly trains to Brussels, a direct bus link to Charleroi airport and cafés for the wait.
1 savePerforming arts theater7 photosPalais des Beaux Arts de Charleroi
Opera, theatre, classical music, jazz, dance and circus all share the stage at Charleroi's Palais des Beaux-Arts, a large classical theatre known for its fine acoustics and an international, multidisciplinary programme.
1 saveThai restaurant8 photosAnaalā Valletta
Each night this rooftop Thai restaurant in Valletta cooks from a different region of Thailand, from Lanna in the north to the fiery south, served as shared dishes with views across the Grand Harbour.
1 saveHotel8 photosInterContinental Taipei
Right beside the Taipei Dome in Xinyi District, this new InterContinental brings contemporary luxury to the city's entertainment precinct, with a swimming pool, a fitness centre and seven restaurants under one roof.
1 saveBarbecue restaurant12 photosBrutus Tavern
Steak meets French cooking at this Kolonaki restaurant, where olive-fed Wagyu Tomahawk and 40-day dry-aged chateaubriand arrive in a candlelit, gold-detailed room with a cinematic, New York-inspired feel.
1 saveMountain cable car6 photosLycabettus Hill Funicular
Lycabettus Hill Funicular shoots through a dark tunnel to Athens’ highest central hill, where a brief final climb opens onto sweeping city views, St. George Church, and summit cafés.
1 saveRestaurant10 photosMpirmpilo
Named after a song by Michalis Sougioul and Aimilios Savvidis, this Kolonaki restaurant serves home-style Greek cooking from across the country amid checked tablecloths, copper pots and wooden ceiling beams.
1 saveRestaurant8 photosAnne-Sophie Pic Paris
Anne-Sophie Pic Paris brings seasonal tasting menus and food-and-drink pairings to 164 Rue de Rivoli, where contemporary art and gastronomy meet inside the Fondation Cartier’s new Paris address.
1 saveMovie theater8 photosCinémathèque Française
Paris's great film institution in Bercy pairs repertory screenings and director retrospectives with the Musée Méliès, rotating exhibitions on figures from Marilyn Monroe to James Cameron, a film library and a cinema bookshop.
1 saveModern art museum8 photosBourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection
A former commodities exchange in central Paris, reworked by Tadao Ando with a concrete cylinder set inside its domed rotunda, now showing contemporary art from the Pinault Collection.
1 saveArt museumFondation Louis Vuitton
Fondation Louis Vuitton rises beside the Jardin d'Acclimatation as Frank Gehry’s glass-sailed art museum, where temporary modern and contemporary exhibitions unfold through terraces, light-filled galleries, and rooftop Paris views.
1 saveExhibition and trade center8 photosParis Expo Porte de Versailles
Inside Paris's city limits, this exhibition park spreads five pavilions across 169,400 m² and hosts around 200 events a year, from VivaTech to the Salon de l'Agriculture.
1 saveArt museum8 photosMuseo Diocesano
Set in the cloisters of Sant'Eustorgio, the Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini holds more than a thousand works spanning the second to the 21st century, alongside photography exhibitions paired with an aperitivo in the cloister garden.
1 saveStadium8 photosSan Siro Stadium
Nicknamed La Scala del Calcio, Milan's 75,817-seat stadium is the largest in Italy and the shared home of AC Milan and Inter, whose Derby della Madonnina is the city's biggest fixture.
1 saveStadium8 photosUnipol Forum
Italy's leading indoor arena, completed in 1990 just outside Milan, seats up to 15,800 for Olimpia Milano basketball, Euroleague nights and the tours of major international artists.
1 saveArt museum8 photosPirelli Hangar Bicocca
Seven concrete towers by Anselm Kiefer stand at the heart of this vast former locomotive factory in Bicocca, where Pirelli's foundation stages large-scale solo shows of contemporary art.
1 saveStadium8 photosWembley Stadium
Under its arch, Wembley Stadium is the home of football and the England team, and a 90,000-seat stage for major concerts, NFL games, wrestling shows and behind-the-scenes tours.
1 saveIndian restaurant8 photosDishoom Borough
Bombay's 1950s Crawford Market is the founding story behind Dishoom's eighth London café, set in the Grade II-listed Hop Exchange opposite Borough Market and serving Bombay comfort food from breakfast through to late drinks.
1 savePark8 photosThe Regent's Park
John Nash laid out The Regent's Park in the early 1800s for the Prince Regent, and today it holds Queen Mary's rose gardens, a boating lake, London Zoo and the view from Primrose Hill.
1 saveArt gallery8 photosTate Modern
A former power station on the Thames at Bankside, Tate Modern holds free collection displays of modern and contemporary art, from Picasso and Matisse to Yayoi Kusama, around the vast Turbine Hall.
1 saveRestaurant8 photosRüya İstanbul
Rüya İstanbul brings contemporary Anatolian plates, cocktails scented with cardamom and pomegranate, and a terrace facing the Bosphorus inside Çırağan Palace Kempinski.
1 saveMuseum8 photosSakıp Sabancı Museum
Calligraphy, Ottoman painting and international temporary shows fill the Atlı Köşk, a former Sabancı family mansion in Emirgan whose Bosphorus-view garden is set with sculptures, fountains and columns.
1 saveModern art museum8 photosIstanbul Museum of Modern Art
Turkey's first modern and contemporary art museum, opened in 2004, now fills a metallic Renzo Piano building on the Bosphorus at Galataport, topped by a rooftop terrace with panoramic views across the city.
1 saveModern art museum8 photosSalt Galata
Alexandre Vallauri's former Imperial Ottoman Bank headquarters on Bankalar Street now holds free exhibitions, a specialist research library, the Ottoman Bank Museum in the old vaults, a bookstore, café and Neolokal restaurant.
1 saveFrench restaurant5 photosVin Fou
Wine leads at Vin Fou, a small restaurant with a French soul on busy Jan Pieter Heijestraat, where an extensive list meets a short menu of inventive bites such as crispy prawns and tartare.
1 saveMovie theater8 photosPathé Amsterdam Noord
Twelve spacious screens with Dolby Atmos sound anchor this Pathé multiplex on Buikslotermeerplein in Amsterdam-Noord, where glow-in-the-dark minigolf, an arcade and a film-themed café turn a screening into a full evening out.
1 saveMuseum8 photosH'ART Museum (Hermitage Amsterdam)
A 17th-century former almshouse, the Amstelhof on the Amstel, now hosts temporary exhibitions of works lent by famous museums, from Rembrandt and Vermeer to Brancusi, around a garden courtyard with a Grand Café.
1 saveArt museum8 photosVan Gogh Museum
Sunflowers, The Potato Eaters, The Bedroom and Almond Blossom anchor a collection hung chronologically through Vincent van Gogh's life, from self-portraits to his final months, on Amsterdam's Museumplein.
1 saveStadium8 photosOlympic Stadium Amsterdam
Built as the main stadium of the 1928 Summer Olympics, Jan Wils's Amsterdam School landmark won an Olympic gold medal for architecture and still hosts athletics, concerts and the Amsterdam Marathon finish.
1 saveBead store8 photosMy Mineral Style
Strands of beads, natural stones and minerals fill this large Eixample craft shop, which also stocks feathers, trims and sewing notions for jewellery makers, bag makers and anyone embellishing garments.
1 saveArt museum8 photosPicasso Museum Barcelona
Five joined medieval palaces on Carrer de Montcada hold a collection tracing Picasso's formative years, from precocious academic paintings and Blue Period works to his 1957 reworkings of Velázquez's Las Meninas.
1 saveCultural center8 photosCentre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Inside the restored Casa de la Caritat beside MACBA, this multidisciplinary centre stages rotating exhibitions, debates, concerts and film cycles on the big questions of contemporary society, from artificial intelligence to suburbia and climate.
1 saveMuseum8 photosPera Museum
Osman Hamdi Bey's The Tortoise Trainer anchors this Beyoğlu museum, where Orientalist paintings, ambassador portraits and old weights and measures from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation sit beneath changing contemporary shows.
1 saveMovie theater8 photosAtlas Cinemas
The Istanbul Film Festival's main venue fills a 19th-century building on İstiklal, where an opera-house-style hall with rear balconies screens new releases alongside classics, next to a museum of Turkish cinema.
1 saveWine bar8 photosLine Athens
Honey, apple and pomegranate become grapeless house wines at this Kato Petralona bar, where a fermentation lab feeds inventive cocktails, house beers and bread in a former art gallery.
1 saveModern art museum8 photosNational Museum of Contemporary Art Αthens (ΕΜΣΤ)
Greece's national museum of contemporary art occupies a former factory building, showing installations, video and mixed media by Greek and international artists, with a top-floor restaurant looking out to the Acropolis.
1 saveMusical club8 photosFloyd - Live Music Venue
A renovated concert hall in central Athens with room for about 4,000, booking a wide range of touring acts from Madchester veterans and indie favourites to thrash metal, darkwave and Greek heavy rock.
1 saveMuseum8 photosBelgian Museum of Freemasonry
Old books, documents and Masonic art fill about five compact rooms in Brussels, offering a quiet, close look at the symbolism, history and architecture of Freemasonry.
1 saveSubway station8 photosPannenhuis
Orange cylinders and dramatic lighting turn this 1982 metro station by Vincent Dehon into one of Brussels' most striking pieces of retro-futuristic design, worth a detour for the architecture alone.
1 saveShopping mall8 photosRavenstein Gallery
Glass roofs pour daylight into this 1958 international-style arcade, a covered pedestrian shortcut climbing from Brussels Central Station up to Bozar, and twice a year the setting for a collectors' vinyl record fair.
1 saveArt museum▶ ReelCité de l’architecture et du patrimoine
Full-scale plaster casts of cathedral portals, medieval murals and a walk-in Le Corbusier apartment fill this wing of the Palais de Chaillot, tracing over 1,000 years of French architecture with the Eiffel Tower framed in its windows.
1 saveJewelry store4 photosApriati
Cord bracelets and necklaces anchor the collection at this Athens boutique for Apriati, a Greek luxury jewellery brand known for minimalist, handcrafted pieces with a distinctive style of their own.
1 saveCafe1 photo · 1 ReelDa Capo
A Kolonaki fixture for years, Da Capo’s sidewalk tables attract morning regulars for sharp freddos, while classic pastries and mini sandwiches fuel people-watching on one of Athens’s busiest corners. Self-service remains the norm.
1 saveGreek restaurant2 photosDaphne's Restaurant
Since 1994, Daphne's has served traditional Greek cooking from a historic Plaka building beneath the Acropolis, with a shaded interior courtyard and classic dishes brought to the table in ceramic pots.
1 saveMediterranean restaurant3 photosAkti Restaurant
Down a flight of stairs on the Vouliagmeni shore, Akti is a dockside Mediterranean restaurant with no boundary between tables and sea, serving line-caught seafood against views across the bay.
1 saveAuthentic Japanese restaurant8 photosMatsuhisa Athens
Nobu Matsuhisa's Japanese-Peruvian cooking comes to the Athenian Riviera at this Rockwell Group-designed restaurant inside the Four Seasons Astir Palace, set on cliffs above the Saronic Gulf with wide sunset views.
1 saveMediterranean restaurant8 photosKrabo
Tucked into secluded Zoska Bay in Vouliagmeni, Krabo pairs a Mediterranean restaurant under a pergola with sunbeds, wooden cabanas and DJ-led music, bringing a Greek-island beach day within a short drive of central Athens.
1 saveBar8 photosJulius'
Julius' is the Greenwich Village bar where the 1966 'Sip-In' challenged rules barring service to gay patrons, and it still pours drinks and grills juicy, no-frills burgers beneath dark wood and wagon-wheel lights.
1 saveRestaurant4 photosDoras Restaurant & Bar
A new restaurant and bar on Sultanahmet's Divanyolu, Doras serves modern Turkish cooking with a deft hand for spices and herbs, alongside original cocktails and inventive twists in a thoughtfully designed room.
1 saveChapel8 photosBruder-Klaus-Feldkapelle
Alone in a field above Wachendorf, Peter Zumthor's concrete chapel to Nikolaus von Flüe looks like a stark block from outside, yet inside opens into a narrow, mysterious space lit from above and through hundreds of glass-filled holes.
1 saveSwimming lake3 photosVouliagmeni Lake
Ringed by sheer rock cliffs on the Athens Riviera, this natural thermal lake offers crystal-clear, mineral-rich water where tiny fish gather to nibble at the feet of anyone standing still.
1 savePeninsula5 photosMani Peninsula
The Mani, the longest of the Peloponnese's southern fingers, is a stark, rugged land of stone tower houses, near-empty hill villages and rocky coves running down to the southernmost tip of mainland Greece.
1 saveRestaurant5 photosPhilos Athens
Philos Athens hides behind an easy-to-miss frontage, then opens into a plant-filled, old-house interior with wooden stairs, reading nooks, strong coffee, and a brunch menu built around French toast, eggs, and pancakes.