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Photography: Destinations & Places

Travel photography guides covering best vantage points, golden-hour timing, drone rules, and camera-bag essentials for photographers chasing serious shots abroad.

  • Front of the Salisbury Museum

    Salisbury

    Salisbury’s Cathedral Close is the largest in England — and most people walk through it in 20 minutes on their way to Stonehenge.

  • Historic Conoco Tower Gas Station in Shamrock, Texas on Route 66 with Art Deco architecture

    Shamrock

    Shamrock’s U-Drop Inn is one of the best-preserved Art Deco stops on Route 66 — the kind of place that makes you pull over and stay longer than planned.

  • Historic houses, flowers, and canal view at La Petite Venise in Colmar, Alsace, France

    Colmar

    Colmar’s Little Venice canal district looks almost too perfect — but it’s real, walkable, and far quieter than Strasbourg.

  • Small Waterfall in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve

    Monteverde

    Monteverde’s cloud forest hangs at 4,600 feet with hanging bridges, zip lines through the canopy, and a biodiversity per square meter that makes the muddy trails worth every step.

  • Toy Museum Salzburg

    Krems

    Krems sits at the edge of a UNESCO valley where 1,000-year-old vineyard terraces still produce the Riesling poured at dinner tonight.

  • St. Stephen's Cathedral clock tower in Passau, Germany, showcasing historic architecture and scenic views

    Passau

    Three rivers meet at Passau’s tip in different colors — blue, green, and black — and the view from Veste Oberhaus makes it click.

  • Private Kitchen in Hakone Retreat Fore

    Hakone

    Hakone is Tokyo’s mountain escape with hot spring ryokans, Lake Ashi beneath Mount Fuji, and a pirate ship cruise that somehow works as serious tourism. The onsen culture is the real draw.

  • Candlewood Suites Fairbanks, an IHG Hotel

    Fairbanks

    Fairbanks sits below the Arctic Circle with the northern lights visible up to 240 days a year, ice sculpture championships in winter, and midnight sun that refuses to set in June.

  • Road in Joshua Tree National Park, California

    Joshua Tree National Park

    Joshua Tree sits where the Mojave and Colorado deserts meet — surreal rock formations, stargazing with zero light pollution, and the trees themselves looking like something from another planet.

  • Upper Sava Valley, Slovenia

    Upper Sava Valley

    The Upper Sava Valley in Slovenia stretches from Kranjska Gora to Bled with Julian Alps framing every view — a valley where ski resorts and emerald rivers share the landscape.

  • Boats on the canals in Leiden, showcasing traditional Dutch architecture and city life.

    Leiden

    Leiden is a Dutch university city where Rembrandt was born, the Pilgrim Fathers left for America, and canal-side museums fill a town small enough to walk in an afternoon.

  • A club scene in Greece on a vibrant night

    Assos Village

    Assos is a tiny Kefalonia village with a Venetian fortress on the peninsula, a handful of tavernas by the water, and a pace of life that resists everything modern.

  • Beautiful fishing village of Naoussa, Paros island, Greece

    Oia

    Oia is the caldera-edge village that put Santorini on every bucket list — blue domes, white cave houses, and a sunset that draws hundreds to the castle ruins every evening.

  • Mountains ski resort Bad Gastein Austria

    Bad Gastein

    Bad Gastein rises along steep mountainsides with Belle Époque hotels, a waterfall crashing through town center, and thermal springs that have drawn visitors since the Habsburg era.

  • Trail and scenic mountain landscape at Puez-Odle Nature Park, Dolomites, Italy

    Dolomites

    The Dolomites are Italian Alps that don’t look like any other mountains — pale limestone towers, pink sunsets called enrosadira, and via ferrata routes bolted into vertical rock.

  • rioja destination image

    Rioja

    Rioja is Spain’s most famous wine region with Haro’s wine battle festival, Frank Gehry’s Marqués de Riscal hotel, and Tempranillo tastings that cost less than a Madrid taxi.

  • Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Harbour Town

    Hilton Head Island

    Hilton Head is a South Carolina barrier island with 12 miles of beach, 24 golf courses, and a bike-path network that makes cars feel optional from check-in to checkout.

  • Charming Historic Houses in Rothenburg ob der Tauber

    Rothenburg ob der Tauber

    Rothenburg ob der Tauber looks exactly like a medieval German town should — half-timbered houses, a night watchman tour, and a Christmas shop open year-round inside the walls.

  • Yosemite National Park travel poster showcasing majestic granite cliffs, waterfalls, and giant sequoias.

    Yosemite National Park

    Yosemite has El Capitan’s 3,000-foot granite face, Yosemite Falls dropping 2,425 feet, and a valley floor that John Muir called the grandest of all special temples of nature.

  • Grand Teton National Park mountain landscape.

    Grand Teton National Park

    Grand Teton rises 7,000 feet straight from the valley floor with no foothills — the most dramatic mountain-to-flatland transition in the lower 48, right next to Yellowstone.

  • Zion National Park red rock formations and canyons landscape.

    Zion National Park

    Zion’s canyon walls glow red and orange with the Virgin River carving through the bottom — Angel’s Landing has chains bolted to rock for the last half mile and the views earn every grip.

  • Jesuit Block in Cordoba Argentina

    Gent

    Ghent sits where three rivers meet with a Gravensteen castle, a Michelin-starred food scene, and a student energy that keeps the Belgian city from feeling like a museum.