Salzburg fits a UNESCO-listed Old Town, a hilltop fortress begun in 1077, and the house where Mozart was born into a footprint you can walk across in under 20 minutes. That density is exactly why deciding where to stay in…
Salzburg fits a UNESCO-listed Old Town, a hilltop fortress begun in 1077, and the house where Mozart was born into a footprint you can walk across in under 20 minutes. That density is exactly why deciding where to stay in…
Leavenworth sits in a tight bend of the Wenatchee River in Washington's Cascade foothills, a former timber town that reinvented itself in the 1960s as an alpine Bavarian village. The downtown is now a wall of timber-framed facades, and it…
Santa Fe sits at roughly 7,000 feet in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and it has anchored New Mexico's government since 1610, which makes it the oldest and highest state capital in the country. That long history…
Oaxaca de Juárez packs a UNESCO-listed historic center, one of the largest folk festivals in the Americas, and the ancestral home of mezcal into a walkable grid of stone streets. The Zapotec ruins of Monte Albán sit on a ridge…
New York's Finger Lakes fan out across the middle of the state as eleven long, glacier-carved lakes. Over the past two decades the region has become one of North America's leading cool-climate wine areas, prized above all for Riesling. That…
Sea otters raft in the kelp just off Cannery Row, sea lions haul out on the rocks, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium sits at the end of the old sardine-canning strip. This is a compact, walkable stretch of the central…
Palm Springs sits at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains—a low-rise desert town where midcentury architecture, long poolside afternoons, and a compact, walkable downtown are the real draw. The five Palm Springs hotels below cover what travelers actually book…
Cape May sits at the southern tip of New Jersey, where the Atlantic meets Delaware Bay, and its streets hold more than 600 preserved Victorian buildings whose gingerbread trim helped earn the whole town National Historic Landmark status. The city…
Pigeon Forge sits at just over 1,000 feet in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, with the Parkway (US 441) running straight through the middle of town and Dollywood, dinner theaters, and mountain coasters lined up along it. Where…
Just before sunset, the Topatopa Mountains above town flush a deep rose, a daily light show locals call the Pink Moment. That glow, plus the slow, citrus-scented calm of this small Ventura County valley, is why people book a room…