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Rambagh Palace - Maharaja's Former Residency In The Capital Of Rajasthan
The pink city of Jaipur is a traveler's wet dream. It was built in the 18th century as India's first planned city with remarkable architecture. In 1876, Maharaja Ram Singh decided to paint the entire city pink as a gesture of hospitality to welcome the Prince of Wales. Jaipur is …
Aura House Bali - IBUKU's Three-Story Bamboo Villa Above Bali's Ayung River
There are places you visit and places that visit you back. Aura House, a hand-shaped bamboo structure curling along the edge of Bali's Ayung River gorge, belongs firmly in the second category. It was designed by IBUKU, the architecture collective founded by Elora Hardy - daughter of Canadian jewelry entrepreneur …
Sacred Sands - Straw Walls, Cast-Iron Tubs, and the Darkest Sky in California
The walls at Sacred Sands are packed with straw. Not metaphorically - straw bale construction means compacted bales stacked, framed, and finished in terracotta clay, resulting in walls so thick they function as their own acoustic system, insulation layer, and fire barrier all at once. It is an uncommon way …
Ciel Dubai Marina - Inside the World's Tallest Hotel: 82 Floors, Eight Restaurants, and Crazy Views
A 377-meter (1,237-foot) tower. An infinity pool on the 76th floor. Eight restaurants spread across 82 floors. Dubai's latest architectural statement has arrived, and it's already snatched several Guinness World Records in the process. Ciel Dubai Marina, Vignette Collection by IHG opened its doors this week as the world's tallest …
The Apurva Kempinski Bali: A Cliffside Palace Above the Indian Ocean
Spread across Nusa Dua's cliffs like a modern interpretation of Bali's terraced rice paddies, The Apurva Kempinski Bali commands attention from every angle. This 475-room resort cascades down the hillside in a symphony of stone and water, with a 250-step grand staircase inspired by sacred temples running through its heart. …
Ahwahnee Hotel - The Shining Star Of The Yosemite National Park
This building was here before your grandparents were born, and it will probably outlast everything you've ever made. The Ahwahnee opened in 1927. It has hosted Queen Elizabeth II, JFK, Barack Obama, Winston Churchill, Walt Disney, and Charlie Chaplin. Stanley Kubrick studied its interiors so obsessively that the fictional Overlook …
Fairmont Golden Prague - A Brutalist Beauty Returns
The Fairmont Golden Prague is many things at once – a museum of Czech modernist art, a showcase of 1970s design ambition, and a functioning luxury hotel that somehow makes concrete feel intimate. The former InterContinental, shuttered for five years and just reopened in April 2025, represents one of the …
Villa Palladio Jaipur - Rajasthani Beauty Meets Italian Flair
One of Rajasthan's newest palace revitalization projects is the Villa Palladio. It opened in 2022 in India's Pink City and quickly became the star of fashion and travel magazines with its iconic high-colored design. Jaipur, the largest city in the state, is home to four million people, and it's famed …
Few & Far Luvhondo - The Six-Suite Lodge That's Off Every Map
Deep in Limpopo's Soutpansberg Mountains, where ancient baobabs tower over valleys and the nearest paved road feels like a distant memory, an unlikely safari story is unfolding. Few & Far Luvhondo isn't your typical Big Five experience - there are no lions prowling the savanna or elephants trumpeting at dawn. …
Sala Silver Mine – An Underground Adventure
Lounge on your luxury leather chair underneath a delicate chandelier that hangs from the roof of a room that has been tunneled out of pure rock, 509 feet (155 meters) below the surface. As if you were Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Except for the massively wealthy and less …
HOTEL BIACLYN HAKODATE - A Former Russian Consulate Becomes a Six-Suite Relais & Châteaux House
A former Russian consulate on a Hokkaido hillside is an unlikely setting for a Relais & Châteaux address. Hotel Biaclyn Hakodate has taken a 1908 diplomatic outpost - the only surviving building of its kind in Japan - paired it with a newly built wellness wing, and turned the whole …
The Crescent Hotel: America's Most Haunted Resort Where a Cancer Charlatan Once Peddled Poison
This 1886 mountaintop hotel in the Ozarks offers ghost tours through a former morgue, a rooftop bar with sunset views, and the kind of dark history most hotels would rather forget. In the 1930s, a con man named Norman Baker ran a fraudulent cancer hospital here, injecting dying patients with …
Don Q Inn - Wisconsin's Fantasy Hotel Where You Can Sleep in an Igloo or Space Capsule
Most hotels promise a good night's sleep and maybe continental breakfast. The Don Q Inn in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, promises you can spend that night in a space capsule, an igloo, or a medieval dungeon. Want to spend the night in a Viking ship? Done. Prefer a prehistoric cave? They've got …
West Baden Springs – The 8th Wonder Of The World
Part of the hilariously named French Lick Resort, West Baden Springs, is a hotel extravaganza. When it was opened in 1902, dumb-struck locals called it the ‘8th Wonder of the World’, and its mineral water baths were said to cure everything apart from credulity. In 1917, an incredible renovation saw …
The Old Cataract: Murder Plots, Martinis, and a Century of Nile-Side Glamor
Standing on a pink granite cliff above the Nile since 1899, the Sofitel Legend Old Cataract Aswan is the kind of place where history doesn't just whisper – it practically shouts from the ruby chandeliers and horseshoe arches. Agatha Christie sat on the terrace penning Death on the Nile here. …
Pater Noster - A Night at Sweden's Most Isolated Hotel
On a scrap of windswept rock in the Swedish archipelago, where the Baltic meets the North Sea, stands what might be the world's most improbable hotel. Pater Noster sits on Hamneskär island, five nautical miles from anywhere you'd recognize as civilization, crowned by a 32-meter lighthouse that has been guiding …
Mfuwe Lodge - The Safari Camp Where Elephants Stroll Through The Lobby
There are wildlife encounters, and then there's watching a family of wild elephants amble straight through a hotel reception on their way to raid a mango tree. At Mfuwe Lodge, in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park, this isn't a staged photo opportunity or a rare fluke. It's an annual event …
Rancho de los Caballeros - A Desert Ranch Where Cowboys Still Roam Free
In the high Sonoran Desert of Arizona, where saguaro cacti stand like ancient sentinels and the Bradshaw Mountains paint purple shadows across endless sky, there's a place that makes good on the promise of the American West without the usual tourist-trap nonsense. Rancho de los Caballeros, sprawling across 20,000 acres …
Bluff Dwellings Resort & Spa - A Desert Hideaway Built Into The Rocks
In the far southeastern corner of Utah, where the Colorado Plateau breaks apart into red rock and silence, a resort sits pressed against 60-meter (200-foot) sandstone cliffs as though it has always been there. Bluff Dwellings Resort & Spa is 10 buildings and 56 rooms stacked and weathered-looking against the …
Lost in Sensations
The daringly named French hotel promises to excite all your five senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing, in ways you haven't experienced before. The hotel's six distinctively different accommodations would each be worthy of a trip to the outskirts of Bordeaux, but there is more. Whichever unique lodging you …