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The Iceland Most People Don’t See
By Brandon Withrow
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The Art of the Solo Stay

Traveling alone changes how you choose a city and hotel. Here are my favorite spots after 10 years of solo travel.

By Hayley Domin
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Pigs & Pinot: The Most Powerful Father-Son Food Weekend in Sonoma

Charlie Palmer's 19th annual Pig & Pinot event returns, with a couple twists this year.

By Cool Material
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This Is Alberta Before It Was a Postcard

My four-day Indigenous-led road trip through Jasper and Métis Nation territory, mapped.

By Brandon Withrow
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Spaceport City

While we might not be traveling to Mars anytime soon, commercial space travel is something that will happen in the future. Space flights can't embark and disembark from traditional airports, which is where Spaceport City comes in. Designed in a collaboration between Space Port Japan Association (SPJ), Dentsu, Canaria and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Nimmo Bay Resort Has a Private Floating Sauna

Situated in the heart of Canada's Great Bear Rainforest on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, Nimmo Bay Resort is far from civilization and an otherworldly experience unlike anything else out there. Nimmo Bay Resort has all the trappings you've come to expect from a curated, off-the-grid expedition vacation--along with…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Proteus Is a State-of-The-Art Underwater Habit Designed by Yves Béhar

Swiss designer, entrepreneur and educator Yves Béhar has designed everything from Movado watches to August Smart Locks in recent years, but his latest creation is something decidedly more opulent and below the surface. Proteus is a state-of-the-art marine research project that's billed by benefactor Fabien Cousteau as "the ocean's equivalent to the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Mybushotel Converted School Bus Campers

Nobody in the history of motorized vehicles has ever coveted a school bus. Ever. All that changes with Mybushotel that takes old school buses and transforms them into the kind of camper we all dream of. The Las Vegas-based shop takes retired school buses that have proven their worth over…

By Amos Kwon
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New Zealand’s Boutique American Wild West Town Is for Sale

There are plenty or fabulous and well-designed architectural marvels we want to own, but few seem as lucrative as New Zealand’s Boutique American Wild West Town that's for sale right now. Situated on 900 acres in the Ruatiti Valley of New Zealand's North Island--that's about seven hours south of Auckland…

By Cooper Fleishman
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