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Burgundy
Burgundy’s wine route costs nothing to drive and the villages along it — Pommard, Meursault, Gevrey — are reason enough to slow down.
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Zell Am See
Zell am See skis in winter, swims in summer, and somehow never feels like a tourist trap. The Grossglockner drive alone justifies the detour.
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Montana
Going-to-the-Sun Road alone justifies the trip — 50 miles of 1932 engineering cutting through the Continental Divide at 6,646 feet.
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Seville
Columbus is buried inside Seville’s cathedral. The Alcázar next door isn’t a museum — people actually live and work there.
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Turin
Turin pours bicerin at marble-topped café bars that have barely changed since 1763. Most travelers fly to Milan instead — their loss.
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Piedmont
Alba’s truffle fair runs one week a year. The rest of the time, Piedmont keeps its best things quietly to itself.
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Sonoma Valley
Napa gets the headlines, but Sonoma is where winemakers actually want to drink. The tasting rooms are smaller, the pours are more generous, and nobody is rushing you out.
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Montalcino
Brunello di Montalcino is reason enough to come. The fortress views over the Val d’Orcia seal the deal.
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Milan
The Duomo took my breath away, but Milan’s real personality lives in the Navigli canals at aperitivo hour — cheap Campari, locals only.
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Palermo
The Palatine Chapel’s Islamic muqarnas ceiling sits directly above Byzantine mosaics and Latin texts. No other room in Europe looks like this.