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There are places that make you question why you ever settled for ordinary vacations, and Capella Lodge on Lord Howe Island is one of them. This nine-suite retreat sits at the foot of two volcanic peaks that tower over the world's southernmost coral reef, on an island so pristine that …

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. …

There are no light switches at Feynan Ecolodge. No minibar, no television, no electricity sockets in the rooms. What you get instead is candlelight flickering off stone walls, a sky so dense with stars it feels structural, and the sound of nothing in particular. Located deep inside Jordan's Dana Biosphere …

Picture this: you're sitting next to an open fire, a glass of Kyushu barley shochu in hand, watching the lights of Fukuoka glitter across a valley below. Behind you is your room - and depending on which type you booked, it might be a cave-like villa, a hillside cottage with …

High in Portugal's Serra da Estrela, an orange-hued fortress sprawls across the mountainside like something out of a Wes Anderson film. This is no ordinary hotel. For decades, tuberculosis patients took the air on its curative balconies. Then it sat abandoned for 40 years, briefly housing refugees from Portugal's colonial …

At 1,550 meters (5,085 feet) above sea level, perched on an Alpine meadow near the Austrian-Bavarian border, there is a small hotel that can only be reached by cable car. No road leads to it. No taxi will drop you there. The nine-suite retreat called Eriro sits on the Ehrwalder …

There's a building in the Catalan countryside that spent eleven centuries refusing to fall. The Castle of Cardona, perched on a rocky promontory 460 meters (1,500 feet) above the walled town below, repelled Bourbon armies, outlasted Napoleonic sieges, and withstood the Carlists during the Spanish Civil War. Today, it's a …

There's a river running through this resort that no engineer designed. It seeps out of the earth at the base of Arenal Volcano, picks up heat and minerals from somewhere deep underground, and winds through 7,790 sq m (83,880 sq ft) of rainforest garden before you even get to stick …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

Forget the beach. Forget the palm trees and the infinity pool overlooking a postcard sea. Whiteface Lodge pulls off something rarer: a resort that makes wilderness feel like the obvious choice. Tucked into New York's High Peaks region inside six million acres of Adirondack Park, it sits on the edge …

There are plenty of reasons to visit Norway in winter. But most of them involve heading north - to Tromsø, to Finnmark, to the kind of latitudes where the aurora borealis is practically a nightly obligation. What fewer people know is that some of Norway's most quietly extraordinary winter experiences …

On a wild stretch of Benguerra Island, where sand dunes roll into the Indian Ocean and dugongs graze offshore seagrass meadows, Kisawa Sanctuary has built something unusual: luxury villas incorporating 3D printing technology, staffed largely by locals, and driven by a commitment to marine science. The 300-hectare property sits on …

There's a giant gorilla watching over the grounds. A wolf, frozen mid-sprint, tears through the woodland. And somewhere above the kitchen garden, suspended nearly 28 meters (92 feet) off the ground in a pod that looks like it belongs in a 1970s science fiction paperback, someone is waking up to …

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: …

Before you even unpack, two things will stop you in your tracks: the color of the water - a cerulean so intense it looks digitally enhanced - and the absolute quiet. Just the warm Red Sea breeze and the low hum of a place that has been deliberately designed to …

Someone actually did it. Quit the city, moved somewhere beautiful, and built something meaningful from scratch - and the result is one of those rare places that feels genuinely lived-in and loved rather than assembled by a hospitality consultant. Built into the rural eastern Algarve near the village of Cacela …

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 …