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Yuki Izakaya
You could easily miss this nook in the midst of the Frenchmen frenzy, but don’t. Yuki Yamaguchi’s traditional Japanese izakaya (neighborhood pub/noshery) offers an impressive array of…
Terra/Bar Terra
Casual or dressy dining—you choose at this two-in-one restaurant. One side (Bar Terra) houses a relaxed bar with terrific (and unusual) eats, while the original Terra showcases James…
Sushi Ota
Let's just cut to the chase with a single-bevel, razor-sharp sushi knife—this is San Diego's best spot for melt-in-your-mouth sushi and sashimi. It's an unassuming little joint tucked…
Tetsuya’s
This is one of the world’s best restaurants—it’s that simple. To have a chance of getting a table, you need to book when reservations become available, 4 weeks in advance, and…
Kyoto International Manga Museum
If you think manga (Japanese comics, or graphic novels) are just for kids, you'll come away with a whole different perspective after touring the largest manga museum in the…
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla
Built in the early 17th century, this beautiful former convent became a museum following the dissolution of the monasteries in 1835 and now holds the finest collection of Spanish…
Guggenheim Museum
Skeptics said Bilbao would get a temporary bump in tourism as curious people came to see what Frank O. Gehry had wrought on the once-industrial waterfront. Nearly 3 decades later, some…
Wallringpark
While Hamburg has no shortage of greenery, the most beautiful stretches are these four adjacent, meticulously maintained parks and gardens west of the Altstadt and Alster Lake. Planten…
Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum
Updated January 6, 2026 -- How’s this for an all-star lineup? Not only does the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum display the Space Shuttle Intrepid, it’s got the world’s only…
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Updated January 11, 2026 -- Right down the street from the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is not only one of those necessary green safety valves, it’s also quite an…
Sackler Gallery
The Sackler is one-half of what is formally known as the National Museum of Asian Art in the United States (the Freer Gallery is the other half). Though the two museums are connected…
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Long the city’s go-to venue for lovers of American decorative arts, traditional and modern crafts, and architectural design, the museum in the past few years has morphed into a…
Wellcome Collection
Once upon a time, there was a very strange Midwestern pharmacist named Henry Wellcome. Henry got very wealthy and developed a taste for hoarding medical oddities, such as Napoleon’s…
Domus
The so-called “House of Man” is intended to provoke curiosity—starting with its unusual curved building designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. The museum bills itself as the…
Portland Classical Chinese Garden
This classically styled Chinese garden takes up an entire city block and is the largest of its type outside of China. The walls surrounding these gardens in Portland's Chinatown…
Reunification Palace
Designed as the home of former President Ngo Dinh Diem, the U.S.-backed leader of Vietnam until his assassination in 1962, this building is most notable for its symbolic role in the…
Missouri Botanical Garden
Opened in 1859, this is the country's oldest and one of the world's top-rated botanical gardens: a 79-acre delight featuring the nation's largest Japanese strolling garden, a Chinese…
Hawaii's Plantation Village
The hour-long tour of this restored 50-acre village offers a glimpse back in time to when sugar planters shaped the land, economy, and culture of Hawaii. From 1852, when the first…
Ueno Park
Ueno Park -- on the northeast edge of the Yamanote Line -- is one of the largest parks in Tokyo and one of the most popular places in the city for Japanese families on a day's outing.…
Tokyo Tower
Japan’s most famous observation tower was built in 1958 and modeled after the slightly smaller Eiffel Tower in Paris. Lit up at night, this 330m (1,083-ft.) tower, a relay station for…
Raffles Hotel
Built in 1887 to accommodate the increasing upper-class trade, Raffles Hotel was originally only a couple of bungalows with 10 rooms, but, oh, the view of the sea was perfection. The…
Ruins of St. Paul's Church
The most famous structure in Macau is what's left of St. Paul's Church. Crowning the top of a hill in the center of the city and approached by a grand sweep of stairs, only its ornate…
Hermann Park
This park has 545 acres of land and lies just beyond the Museum District, on the west side of South Main Street. The parkland is well wooded and has an 18-hole public golf course,…
Himeji Castle
As soon as you exit from Himeji Station, you'll see Himeji Castle straight ahead at the end of a wide boulevard called Otemae Dori. Perhaps the most beautiful castle in all of Japan,…
CaixaForum
This is one of the city's more exciting contemporary art spaces, in terms of both its setting and what's inside. Opened in 2002 in the Casaramona, an old moderniste textile factory…