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The Great Winter Escape
By Hayley Domin
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The Bucket List of Remote Places to Kayak

Here's your guide to the coolest places to kayak.

By Brandon Withrow
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You Don’t Need Couture Cash to Live It Up in Paris

Your chic, sophisticated, and smart visitor’s guide to the City of Light.

By Blake Snow
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The Coolest Places To Travel In 2026

23 places for your consideration.

By Cool Material
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The Best Airbnbs for a Surfing Vacation

As wise man Jeff Spicoli once said, “All [we] need are some tasty waves and a cool buzz, and [we’re] fine.” Unfortunately, we don’t exactly live in the surf capital of the world, so we spend a lot of our time—far more than we’d like to admit—staring out the window…

By Maxwell Barna
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The Isle of Jura is the Perfect Quiet Vacation for Scotch Lovers

To orient you, the Isle of Jura’s next door neighbor is Islay, off the West Coast of Scotland. You probably recognize the latter’s name if you’re at all a fan of scotch whisky. For all of the popularity Islay enjoys, we preferred our time on Jura. It’s smaller, more soft-spoken,…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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AirShip 2

If you want to escape to the Scottish Highlands to enjoy lush green fields, views of the water, and plenty of good single malt, but you need a place to stay, consider your reservation booked. This is the AirShip 2, an insulated aluminum pod that puts you right among Scotland's…

By Mike Newman
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Safari Lodges Built to Look Like Shipwrecks

Just off Namibia's Skeleton Coast—Top 5 coast name, by the way—is litany of shipwrecks. Foggy conditions and rocks caused the demise of many boats over the years. We don't recommend sleeping in one of those shipwrecks, but we do recommend sleeping in one of these. Natural Selection, an African safari…

By Mike Newman
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The Gibraltar Skywalk Is a Former WWII Military Lookout

As if there weren't already enough things to do in the Gibraltar Nature Reserve, the popular destination just got one more bucket list attraction thanks to a new viewing platform on its monolithic promontory the Rock of Gibraltar. Designed by local architectural practice Arc Designs, Skywalk is a state-of-the-art glass…

By Cooper Fleishman
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