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Crimson sandstone cathedrals, vortex sites, and the wellness capital of the American Southwest
8 min readAmerica's craft beer capital, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, with an Art Deco downtown and the country's largest private home
8 min readPeru's white volcanic-stone colonial city, with three snow-capped volcanoes on the horizon and the world's second-deepest canyon next door
8 min readA colorful colonial silver-mining city cascading down a Mexican valley, with underground tunnels and an October arts festival that takes over every plaza
8 min readArgentina's high-altitude colonial northwest — Andean foothills, Torrontés vineyards, salt flats, and the best empanadas in the country
8 min readAntebellum architecture, Gullah heritage, and one of the best Southern food cities in America
8 min readThe pastel colonial capital of Yucatán — Mayan ruins, freshwater cenotes, and one of the safest cities in Mexico
8 min readA UNESCO lantern-lit former trading port on the Vietnamese coast, with custom tailoring, the country's best cao lầu, and beach 10 minutes away
8 min readLisbon's tougher, prettier northern sibling — port wine cellars, azulejo-tiled facades, and the most photogenic urban riverbank in Europe
8 min readMexico's culinary and cultural capital — seven moles, mezcal palenques, Zapotec ruins, and Day of the Dead at its most extraordinary
8 min readA perfectly preserved medieval Polish capital with Europe's largest market square, Wawel Castle, and the Kazimierz Jewish quarter
8 min readNorthern Thailand's mountain-encircled cultural capital — 300 temples, the world's best khao soi, and digital-nomad coffee shops on every corner
8 min readThe Alhambra's home city — Andalusian Moorish-meets-Christian Spain, with free tapas, flamenco caves, and the Sierra Nevada as a snowy backdrop
8 min readSpanish-moss live oaks, 22 historic squares, and the South's most haunted-and-most-romantic walking city
8 min readMedieval Flanders preserved intact — canals, a step-gabled main square, the world's best Trappist beer, and chocolate on every corner
8 min readA volcano-set medieval capital with two UNESCO neighborhoods, a castle on a 700-million-year-old rock, and the world's largest arts festival every August
8 min readIdaho's mountain-fringed capital — a 25-mile riverside greenbelt, a sizable Basque diaspora, and ski terrain 16 miles from downtown
8 min readMorocco's Blue Pearl — a Rif Mountain medina painted entirely in shades of blue, with Andalusian heritage and waterfalls an hour away
8 min readTasmania's harbor capital — Australia's most progressive private museum, the world's best whisky distilleries, and Bruny Island oysters
8 min readA Hanseatic medieval old town intact behind its walls, on the Baltic across from Helsinki, in Europe's most digital country
8 min readMozart's birthplace, the Sound of Music setting, and an Alps-framed baroque old town with one of Europe's largest medieval fortresses
8 min readA UNESCO temple town at the junction of the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers — saffron-robed monks at dawn, waterfalls in Caribbean-blue pools, and the cheapest indulgence in Southeast Asia
8 min readA pink neo-Gothic parish church on a hill, Mexico's biggest expat community, and the country's most polished colonial town
8 min readMorocco's medieval imperial capital — the world's largest car-free urban area, the oldest continuously operating university, and tanneries that have been working since the 11th century
8 min readNorway's western capital and the gateway to the fjords — a Hanseatic wharf of pastel wooden warehouses, surrounded by seven mountains and 240 rainy days a year
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