
Zermatt Village Center
Zermatt’s car-free village center runs along Bahnhofstrasse, lined with 500-year-old Valais chalets and framed by Matterhorn views from the St. Mauritius church bridge.

Zermatt’s car-free village center runs along Bahnhofstrasse, lined with 500-year-old Valais chalets and framed by Matterhorn views from the St. Mauritius church bridge.

Zürich’s medieval Old Town straddles the Limmat River, home to the twin-towered Grossmünster, the Chagall windows of the Fraumünster, and the Niederdorf lane’s cafés and nightlife.

Zakynthos’s busiest beach resort — a long sandy bay on the island’s south coast, lively nightlife, and a gateway to the loggerhead turtle nesting grounds of Marathonisi and the Bay of Laganas.

Stone Town is Zanzibar’s UNESCO-listed old quarter — a 19th-century Swahili trading hub of coral-stone buildings, carved wooden doors, and landmarks like the House of Wonders and the Old Fort.

A riverside, green, academic neighborhood ideal for students, architecture lovers, nature lovers.

Yellowstone’s most visited hub, built around Old Faithful — the predictable geyser, the historic Old Faithful Inn, and the largest concentration of geysers on Earth in the Upper Geyser Basin.

Zacatecas’s UNESCO-listed colonial center — a former silver-mining city of pink-stone Baroque architecture, the twin-towered cathedral, and a cable car over the historic streets.

Zadar’s three-thousand-year-old peninsula of marble streets — Roman forum, Venetian walls, and the wave-powered Sea Organ that turns the Adriatic into music at sunset.

Zagreb’s hilltop Upper Town — the city’s oldest quarter, home to St. Mark’s tiled-roof church, the noon cannon of Lotrščak Tower, and a historic funicular up from Ilica Street.

A historic charm, upscale shopping, waterfront dining neighborhood ideal for Shoppers, History buffs, Students.

Whistler’s car-free, alpine-style Village Stroll — a cobblestone pedestrian core of 100+ shops and restaurants at the base of Whistler and Blackcomb mountains.

A small wine town in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, heart of the Dundee Hills AVA — volcanic-soil Pinot Noir, hillside tasting rooms, and farm-to-table dining 40 minutes from Portland.