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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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Airbnb Just Launched Airbnb Plus, A Collection of Rentals Full of Amenities

Airbnb has changed the way we travel, allowing us to find affordable places to stay just about anywhere we go. Of course, how those places turn out is often somewhat of a crapshoot. That's why, for its 10th anniversary, Airbnb has launched Airbnb Plus, a collection of places that pass…

By Mike Newman
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EcoCamp Patagonia Geodesic Dome Hotel

Voted one of the best hotels in the world, the EcoCamp Patagonia Geodesic Dome Hotel is an eco-friendly and completely sustainable lodging complex situated in the heart of the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile's Patagonia region. These aren't your traditionally spartan off-the-grid rentals either, because they have a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Chameleon House Reflects All That Surrounds It

If the Witness Protection Program was feeling especially kind, they might dump the next guy who rats on the mob in The Chameleon House. Why? Because the reflective wall cladding allows the unique structure located on the edge of Lake Michigan to reflect all the color and light of the…

By Mike Newman
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Camp Adventure Park Observation Tower

Normally you climb to the top of an observation tower to jockey for position in a small space that has room for maybe five sets of eyes. Not the case with the Camp Adventure Park observation tower. The 45-meter tall tower allows visitors of the park to look out on…

By Mike Newman
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META-Project Ski Overlook

When the owners of the Vanke Songhua Lake Resort in China's Jilin province decided to add a man-made element to their resort with almost 20 miles of slopes, they turned to Beijing-based META-Project to create an overlook and observatory that would add to the entire experience without detracting from the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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