Mauritius
Mauritius has an underwater waterfall illusion, seven-colored earth at Chamarel, and a Creole-Indian-French culture that shows up best on every dinner plate.
Mid-Range Travel Guides
Mid-range travel is the comfortable middle: private rooms, a mix of sit-down meals and casual bites, the occasional guided tour, and room in the budget to say yes to a splurge. In the U.S. that comfort now averages around $325 a day — a figure that has climbed about 7% over the past year as travel prices keep rising. Everything filed here helps you travel well without paying full luxury rates.
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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.
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Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone sits on a supervolcano with half the world’s geysers — Old Faithful is the one everyone knows, but the Grand Prismatic Spring is the one that stops you cold.
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Northern Italy
Northern Italy runs from Milan’s fashion to Venice’s canals to the Dolomites’ peaks — a region where Lake Como, Verona, and the best risotto in the country compete for your days.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Grand Canyon National Park
The Grand Canyon is 277 river miles of exposed geological time — two billion years visible in striped rock layers that no photo, video, or description truly prepares you for.
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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.
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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.
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Kaprun
Kaprun has year-round skiing on the Kitzsteinhorn glacier and a village at the foot of the Hohe Tauern range — the Austrian Alps at their most accessible and least pretentious.
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Rio De Janeiro
Rio puts Christ the Redeemer on Corcovado, Sugarloaf over the harbor, and Copacabana at sea level — a city framed by granite peaks where the geography does the heavy lifting.
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Punta Cana
Punta Cana lines the Dominican Republic’s eastern tip with 30 miles of coconut-palm beaches, all-inclusives, and a Hoyo Azul cenote hidden in the jungle behind the resorts.
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Patagonia
Patagonia stretches across Argentina and Chile with glaciers calving into lakes, Torres del Paine spearing the sky, and a wind that lets you know who’s in charge.
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Valencia
Valencia invented paella and transformed a dry riverbed into the City of Arts and Sciences — a Spanish Mediterranean city that finally gets the attention it earned.