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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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Gemma Observatory

Anmahian Winton Architects is a Cambridge-based architecture firm with work all over the world that focuses on collaboration, innovation and sustainable design. More importantly, as is evidenced by the Gemma Observatory, their works are beautiful, functional, interesting and award-winning. The Gemma Observatory by Anmahian Winton Architects is a private astronomical…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Arctic Bath Is a Floating Hotel in Sweden

While it looks like a building modeled after the iron throne, the Arctic Bath has nothing to do with Game of Thrones and everything to do with enjoying the Northern Lights. Scheduled to open next year, the Swedish hotel floats on water and offers incredible views of the Aurora Borealis. Of course,…

By Mike Newman
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Betting on the Ponies

A day spent at the track can be a high energy thrill ride, a nice relaxed way to spend the day with family and friends, or even a date. You control how much you spend, so it’s as expensive as you make it, and you always have the chance to…

By Maxwell Barna
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The Off-Road Campers We’d Buy if Money Were No Object

Every time we have the “What if you could do anything you wanted?” conversation, it always ends with us saying we’d love to do more traveling. And when we say “traveling,” you know we’re not the “book a cruise and hang out in port all week” kind of people. We’re…

By Maxwell Barna
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Accidental Wes Anderson Is a Subreddit for Places That Belong in a Wes Anderson Movie

There's a colorful sense of whimsy in every Wes Anderson movie that extends beyond the costumes and dialogue. It's something that can be seen in every building and locale present in any of the famous director's movies. Now it's given way to a subreddit where redditors share real-life locations that seem…

By Mike Newman
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