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A neoclassical church with 60-foot vaulted ceilings and patinated copper doors now houses one of Washington DC's most distinctive hotels. The LINE DC transformed a century-old First Church of Science into a boutique property that actually feels like it belongs in its Adams Morgan neighborhood – complete with an in-house …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In the 1890s, this building on Robertson Quay was ground zero for Singapore's red-light district, a hub for opium dens, gambling houses, and Chinese secret societies who demanded 36 sacred oaths from new recruits. The street was known in Hokkien as "Chiu Long Lo" – Spirits Shed Street – after …

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 …

There is a bed in the middle of the desert. Not near a building, not on a porch - just a fully made queen bed, sitting on a cracked salt flat under the Utah sky, catching wind-blown pillows and the occasional napping stranger. It was supposed to be removed. Staff …

Sea Containers London isn't trying to be your typical boutique hotel. Housed in what looks like an unremarkable 1970s office block on the South Bank, this 359-room property goes all-in on its transatlantic cruise liner theme, complete with copper-plated walls that curve like a vintage ship's hull and four new …

A place that opens with "We're not a wellness fortress with animated breakfast buffets" is making a specific promise. At Zu Kirchwies, a small chalet village in Laion, South Tyrol, you won't find golden taps or petting-zoo charm. What you will find: Scottish Highland cattle wandering the property, a family …

There is a small wooden cabin perched on the edge of the forest on Mount Fløyen, above the rooftops of Bergen, Norway, and it will cost you absolutely nothing to spend the night in it. The catch? You have to have a child under 12, you can only stay once …

Standing a mere 20 feet from the Grand Canyon's edge, El Tovar has been perched on this precipice since 1905, when the notion of building a luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere was either visionary or mad. Theodore Roosevelt stayed here. So did Albert Einstein. The dining room still …

Sitting on a hillside above one of the world's smallest capitals, Hotel Føroyar doesn't just offer views of Tórshavn – it practically is the view. This is where international football teams crash after matches, where visiting musicians decompress, and where you can walk barefoot through rain and drizzle to reach …

Forget the beaches – Thailand's landlocked Khao Yai National Park offers something the coast can't: a transparent rooftop pool where you swim seemingly suspended above forested peaks. Hotel MYS Khao Yai, a five-star property on Thanaratch Road, brings Scandinavian minimalism to the heart of the country's oldest national park, a …

In Marrakech's fashionable Golden Triangle, a towering Japanese bonsai tree rises from the center of a circular lobby, setting the tone for one of the more intriguing hotel experiments in North Africa. Nobu Hotel Marrakech took over an existing building in 2022 and transformed it into something that sits comfortably …

Most hotels stake their identity on a lobby artwork or a rooftop bar. Corendon Amsterdam New-West went a different route and installed the front half of a real Boeing 737 on the seventh floor. That alone would be enough to earn the place a mention, but the hotel turns out …

If the idea of sleeping in what is essentially a very well-designed wooden box fills you with dread, Capsule Hotel Copenhagen would like a word. Opened in March 2025 in the heart of Vesterbro, this 22-pod property is the first Nordic outpost of a Swiss hospitality group that has been …

Most resorts want you to stay on property. Hana-Maui Resort wants you to stay in a different way entirely - unhurried, untethered, and largely offline. Rooms here have no televisions, no alarm clocks, and in some cases no radios. The spa uses heated lava rocks and Hawaiian healing traditions that …