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Nivunki Village - Glass Huts, Frozen Lakes, and Reindeer Treaties in the Finnish Lapland

Deep in Finnish Lapland, roughly 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Kittilä airport, there's a place that traces its roots to the Stone Age. Ancient trap pits and hearths have been unearthed on the land around Nivunki Village, a reminder that humans have been drawn to this remote stretch of Arctic …

Daft Music Studios & Hotel - Deep in the Belgian Ardennes, a Recording Studio Built a Hotel

Somewhere between Malmedy and the Hautes Fagnes nature reserve, hidden inside a forest in the Belgian Ardennes, there is a neon sign on a building facade that reads: We Love You. It is the first thing you see when you arrive at Daft Hotel, and it sets the tone for …

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. …

Parador Costa da Morte - Death, Rebirth, and Glass: Galicia's Most Daring Hotel

Spain's 98th parador took nearly two decades to build, rising from the ruins of an environmental catastrophe to become something genuinely special. Perched above a white sand beach on the Costa da Morte – the "Coast of Death," named for its countless shipwrecks – this glass and zinc structure disappears …

1 Hotel Hanalei Bay - A New Vision for Kauai's North Shore

When Barry Sternlicht's 1 Hotels brand finally opened its flagship property on Kauai in early 2023, it marked more than just another luxury resort debut. After decades of family vacations to this stretch of Hawaii's North Shore, the hospitality mogul had transformed what he saw as a property disconnected from …

Desert Rock – The Saudi Resort Built Directly into Mountain Faces

Villas carved into cliffs, pools that appear to float in midair, and a restaurant overseen by a Michelin-starred chef – Desert Rock is rewriting the rules of desert luxury in Saudi Arabia's ambitious Red Sea development. Twenty minutes from Red Sea International Airport, hidden among granite massifs where the Hejaz …

Cempedak Island - 50,000 Pieces of Bamboo and One Perfect Indonesian Escape

Imagine an island where 50,000 pieces of bamboo were woven into villas perched among granite boulders, where dolphins occasionally drift past at breakfast, and where the biggest decision you'll face is whether to watch the sunrise or sunset from your private plunge pool. This is Cempedak, a 17-hectare Indonesian hideaway …

San Montano Resort & Spa, Ischia: Thermal Waters, Lemon Groves, and the Gulf of Naples at Its Best

Somewhere between your second dip in a thermal pool and watching the sun dissolve into the Tyrrhenian Sea, Ischia stops feeling like a place you're visiting and starts feeling like somewhere you might never want to leave. San Montano Resort & Spa has a way of doing that to people. …

Hotel Ottilia - Beer, Bricks, and a Woman Named Ottilia: Inside Copenhagen's Most Unlikely Hotel

There's a hotel in Copenhagen where the walls once held the weight of six million liters of beer. Where a curved light installation trails down from ceiling to bar like a vertebral column, and where 64 golden discs on the facade each represent the bottom of a beer bottle. Where, …

Palacio del Inka, Cusco - Inside a 500-Year-Old Mansion: Stone, Gold, and a Baby Alpaca Named Inti

Most hotels describe themselves as historic. Palacio del Inka was a palace, then a Spanish colonial mansion, then a museum, and is now asking if you'd like a pisco sour. The stones - massive, fitted without mortar with an Incan precision that has outlasted earthquakes - belonged to Qorikancha, the …

Timberline Lodge - The Hotel From "The Shining" Movie

Stanley Kubrick borrowed its face for a horror classic. Jack Nicholson swung an axe at its door. And yet Timberline Lodge, perched at 6,000 feet on the shoulder of Oregon's Mount Hood, somehow remains one of the most welcoming places in the Pacific Northwest. Here is the strange alchemy of …

Blancaneaux Lodge - The Lodge Where Francis Ford Coppola Made His Hideaway

Somewhere in western Belize, a waterfall is tumbling into a turquoise pool that almost nobody sees. It isn't on a popular trail or a backpacker's bucket list. It's just sitting there, doing its thing, above the jungle canopy of the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve, which stretches across 107,000 acres …

Another Place, The Machrie - A World-Class Golf Course, Ten Distilleries, and a Banksy by the Front

Another Place, The Machrie does not announce itself. It accumulates - a golden eagle banking over the Atlantic, a genuine Tracey Emin hanging next to your breakfast table - until the place stops feeling like a hotel and starts feeling like a very convincing dream. Set on the Isle of …

Minaret Station - New Zealand's Helicopter-Only Alpine Lodge Where Everything Else Drops Away

There are two ways to arrive at Minaret Station, and both involve a helicopter. You can land directly at the lodge, or you can ask the pilot to drop you halfway up the mountain so you can hike the rest of the way through woodland and past streams, arriving just …

Krallerhof - The Austrian Hotel With a 50-Meter Pool Floating in a Lake

In the Austrian village of Leogang, a family-run hotel has just pulled off something remarkable. The Krallerhof isn't content with being another five-star alpine retreat – it's gone and built what might be Europe's most architecturally audacious spa. Picture a 50-meter infinity pool suspended in a lake, with the jagged …

Domaine des Etangs, Auberge Collection - Deep in the Charente, a Medieval Castle Reinvents Itself

Somewhere in the Charente countryside of southwest France, on a 1,000-hectare (2,500-acre) estate of forests, lakes, and open pastureland, there is a tennis court floating on a pond. There is also a 13th-century castle tower where you can sleep beneath a glass ceiling and look up at the stone ribs …

Les Sources de Caudalie - Among the Vines: A Palace Hotel That Has a Soul

There's a moment, sometime between your first glass of Pessac-Léognan and your third hour of doing absolutely nothing by an indoor pool, when Les Sources de Caudalie stops feeling like a hotel and starts feeling suspiciously like someone's very beautiful home that you've been allowed to borrow for a few …

Bawah Reserve - Adrift in the Anambas: Indonesia's Most Remote Luxury Escape

Bawah Reserve sits in a corner of the Anambas Archipelago so remote that the only way in is by seaplane, which lands directly in a turquoise lagoon. There are no televisions. WiFi is real but limited. There are no cars, no roads, and no reminders that the rest of the …

Hotel Rangá - Seven Continents, One River, One Polar Bear

There's a polar bear in the lobby. The Africa suite has a straw ceiling made from locally grown Icelandic wheat. The owner - a former seafood industry titan who spent 200-plus nights a year in hotels - will pour you a glass of schnapps and tell you where to find …