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Spanish-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
8 min readVietnam's 1,000-year-old capital — French-colonial boulevards meeting a 36-street Old Quarter, the country's best phở, and Halong Bay 3 hours away
8 min readRajasthan's Pink City — palaces painted terracotta-rose for a British prince's visit, hilltop forts, and India's most spectacular crafts and textile markets
8 min readBasque Country's reborn industrial port — Frank Gehry's Guggenheim, Europe's most innovative pintxos scene, and an hour from San Sebastián by coast
8 min readThe 'City of a Hundred Spires' — Europe's largest castle complex above a medieval Old Town, the world's oldest astronomical clock, and beer cheaper than water
8 min readAndalusia's capital — the world's largest Gothic cathedral, a Moorish Royal Alcázar still used by the Spanish king, and the birthplace of flamenco
8 min readA Caribbean archipelago of nine islands in northwest Panama — clear water, no big resorts, and the friendliest backpacker scene south of Tulum
8 min readA UNESCO 16th-century Ottoman bridge over an emerald river in southern Bosnia — destroyed in the 1990s war, faithfully rebuilt, and still the symbol of a divided-then-reunited city
8 min readA former silver-mining town wedged into a Colorado box canyon at 8,750 feet — world-class skiing, four signature festivals, and the only free gondola in North America
8 min readA surf town on Mexico's Pacific coast with bunting-strung streets, beginner-friendly waves, and Punta Mita's hidden beaches 15 minutes south
8 min readNepal's lakeside Himalaya gateway — paragliding above the Annapurnas, the trek launchpad for the Annapurna Circuit, and a town built around a single transcendent mountain view
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