Suspended 170 meters above Norway's Lysefjord, The Bolder lodges look like they might drift away at any moment. This is architecture that refuses to play it safe – six cabins scattered across 170 hectares of wilderness, each one appearing to hover over one of the country's most dramatic fjords. The …
There's a waterfall in the living room. Not a decorative one piped in by an interior designer, but a real, slow-trickling spring formation called the "Spanish Piano" - a naturally occurring rock structure that geologists and cave enthusiasts have apparently traveled from across the world to study. It's also just... …
In the sleepy Portuguese village of Viana do Alentejo, where white-washed houses bake under the Alentejo sun and time moves at the pace of a Sunday afternoon, something unexpected has emerged from the bones of an old grain mill. The Moagem Industrial Lodge isn't your typical countryside retreat - this …
There are around 4,000 certified campgrounds within a reasonable distance of Zion National Park. Most offer a flat patch of gravel, a fire ring, and a shower block that smells like everyone else's shampoo. Zion White Bison Resort, sitting just outside the park boundary in Virgin, Utah, offers something unique: …
At Shanghai Snow World Hotel, you can ski-in, ski-out, and still make your teppanyaki reservation by 7pm - no mountain required. The hotel sits inside a vast climate-controlled dome in Pudong, where the snow is real, the slopes are certified by Guinness World Records, and your room door opens directly …
In September 1958, Queen Juliana swung a silver axe to launch a ship built as the flagship of Holland America Line's transatlantic fleet: a 228-meter (748-foot) liner with an engineering choice that startled shipbuilders at the time – twin exhaust uptakes in place of a single funnel, which freed up …
You can fly across most of Western Australia and see barely a soul below – just red earth, then blue water, then more red earth. Sal Salis sits right where those two extremes collide: a scattering of safari tents dropped between a national park full of gorges and kangaroos, and …
Langkawi has no shortage of places to stay. There are clifftop resorts with infinity pools, beachfront villas with butler service, and boutique guesthouses tucked into the jungle. None of them look like a coconut. On the eastern edge of the island, in a sheltered cape called Tanjung Rhu where mangrove …
Some places make you work for them. Kennicott Glacier Lodge is one of those places – eight hours from Anchorage, with the final 60 miles on gravel roads that rental car companies won't let you drive on. But those willing to make the journey find themselves at the center of …
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 …
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 …
On a hill overlooking downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, sits an actual castle – turrets, sandstone walls, stained glass and all. It was built in 1895 by a local uniform manufacturer as a family home, and today it operates as a bed and breakfast run by a French-trained chef who describes himself …
There are places that photographs simply cannot do justice to, and Emerald Lake in British Columbia’s Yoho National Park is one of them. The water shifts between seafoam green, bright teal, and a blue so vivid it looks edited – and then the light changes, and it starts all over …
At the edge of the world, where ancient cedars meet crashing Pacific waves, sits a hotel that makes no apologies for its dramatic setting. The Wickaninnish Inn perches on a rocky headland at Chesterman Beach, five kilometers from the surfing town of Tofino on Vancouver Island's wild west coast. This …
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 …
You're watching pelicans glide in formation over the Pacific, listening to a conversation at the long communal table spiral from Mexican food politics to astrology, nursing something cold from the bar - and you haven't looked at your phone in three hours. The Wi-Fi password is "disconnecttoreconnect" for a reason. …