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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 …

Half an hour from Rovaniemi, down a winding forest road that makes you wonder if you've taken a wrong turn, sits a resort that manages to be both deeply luxurious and authentically Finnish. Aito Igloo & Spa Resort offers panoramic treehouse accommodation overlooking a frozen lake, a proper wellness center …

Picture this: a 17th-century manor house with secret tunnels in the cellar, a stash of gold coins hidden under the floorboards, and a king on the run from parliament once sleeping in your bed. Boys Hall, just outside Ashford, isn't your average countryside hotel. Brad and Kristie Lomas spent three …

When Belmond throws open the doors to a century-old villa that once hosted the Agnelli family and Vespa inventor Enrico Piaggio, you know it's going to be special. Villa Beatrice, which opened in July 2025, marks Belmond's first private villa offering, and it's genuinely unlike anything else on the Italian …

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 …

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. …

Forget everything you think you know about Santorini hotels. Neema Maison Finikia isn't trying to be another whitewashed cave dwelling with predictable blue accents and donkey photos. Instead, this 16-room adults-only retreat feels like stumbling into a high-fashion backstage area that somehow materialized on a Greek cliff. The brainchild of …

There aren't many places where you can soak in an outdoor hot spring while gazing at Mount Fuji, then drive three laps around a world-class race circuit before dinner. The Fuji Speedway Hotel, which opened in late 2022, occupies a unique patch of Shizuoka Prefecture where Japan's highest peak looms …

On Cerro Mariposa in Chile's bohemian port city, WineBox Valparaíso is a hotel that stopped caring what traditional hospitality thinks. Built from 25 repurposed shipping containers stacked like an architectural experiment gone wonderfully right, this place opened in February 2018 as something between a boutique hotel and a statement about …

Many Glacier Hotel sits on the shores of Swiftcurrent Lake in Glacier National Park's northeastern corner, a five-story structure with brown wood siding and Swiss chalet flourishes that has been welcoming visitors since 1915. When a forest fire roared down the mountain in 1936, employees fought flaming debris with fire …

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 …

A historic bank building in downtown Versailles has been transformed into a 29-room boutique hotel with its own craft distillery, a steakhouse that channels 1950s glamour, and a rooftop bar on the way. The former Woodford Bank and Trust Company now offers clawfoot tubs, equestrian-inspired design, and the kind of …

Some places whisper, and some shout. Kato Dool does something in between – it hums. Sprawled across a hillside in Aswan's Nubian village of Gharb Soheil, this wellness resort is painted in shades that could make a sunset jealous: turmeric yellows, coral pinks, sky blues. It's the kind of place …

Deep in Namibia's NamibRand Nature Reserve, where the desert stretches for 200,000 hectares beneath mountains that look like they've been carved from stone, there's a place where the night sky puts on such a show that you'll wonder why you ever bothered with city lights. Kwessi Dunes is that place …

Staying in a hotel that once served as a Union hospital, where faucets allegedly turn on by themselves and children's footsteps echo through halls at night, is delightfully odd. The Marshall House, Savannah's oldest operating hotel, doesn't shy away from its peculiar past. Built in 1851, this Greek Revival landmark …

In the forested hills above Luang Prabang, architect Bill Bensley has conjured something wonderfully eccentric: a 23-room resort that reimagines a 19th-century French colonial hill station, complete with safari-style tents perched in the treetops. The property sprawls across both banks of the Nam Dong River, connected by a bridge that …

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. …

From the street, El Palacito Secreto looks unassuming, just another modest colonial facade tucked into the historic heart of Merida. You would never guess what awaits inside. But the moment you step through the entrance, the ordinary world dissolves. What emerges is something far more extravagant: a sprawling, meticulously designed …

Canada's first hotel room intentionally designed for sex. A retrofitted Airstream trailer in the parking lot. A water slide that runs year-round. Hotel Zed Victoria – a riot of neon, velvet, and unapologetic fun – operates far outside the standard business hotel playbook. Working rotary phones sit beside QR codes …

In the heart of Palm Springs, a bright pink motel rises from the desert landscape like a fever dream made real. This is the Trixie Motel, the only drag queen-owned hotel in the United States, and quite possibly the world. It's a seven-room passion project in which every surface, fixture, …