The New York Times

Hiking and kayaking in the daytime? Fun and invigorating. But under a full moon, those activities can be transcendent. Gazing at blue skies is pleasant — but rather ordinary. Looking up at the night sky, on the other hand, feels as though deep mysteries may be revealed.

Vogue

Mashed with a muffin. Bedazzled with rainbow sprinkles. Shrunk to $50 boxes of petite céréale. And now, flattened, and adorned with all manner of outrageous toppings. Who knew the croissant was such a reinventionist?

The New York Times

From cooking with a Michelin-star chef to taking a chauffeured shopping spree in Singapore, hotels and resorts are offering ever-more-lavish activities for guests.

BBC Travel

Engaging with nature on vacation can not only you make feel more rested and restored, it can also enhance wellbeing when you're back home.

The New York Times

Though the academic scene continues to imbue this coastal Connecticut city with a certain gravitas, surrounding neighborhoods are showing off their own cultural capital in the realms of art, food, music and more.

The New York Times

Volcanic São Miguel, one of the nine islands in this Portuguese archipelago in the Mid-Atlantic, offers landscapes and experiences that are at once wild and serene.

The New York Times

Lodgings in this bucolic region north of New York City are targeting a new generation of visitors with organized “experiences,” nostalgic style elements and serious cocktails.

BBC Travel

From Dutch outpost to urban playground, Governors Island has had many lives. Now, it's pioneering a zero-waste concept that could show other cities how to develop more sustainably.

The New York Times

Foie gras Popsicles? 81-layer croissants? A new wave of restaurants in the state’s maritime southeast brings more to the menu than lobster rolls and pizza.

Vogue

I’m sitting in the sun-filled restaurant of Hotel Marcel in New Haven, Connecticut, marveling at what’s before me. Not the imposing Marcel Breuer-designed brutalist structure itself.

Travel + Leisure

Skip the overbooked destinations and spend some long, lazy days at these overlooked towns along New England's diverse coast.

National Geographic

“Hey, girls,” John Farrugia says, opening the door to a fenced-in run where about 50 hens cluck, coo, and strut. He reaches in and picks up a fluffy brown chicken, cradling her in his arm. “This is a red cross,” he says, pointing to the red comb and wattles on the bird’s head. “She’s a real sweetheart.”

The New York Times

I’ve always been one of those girls. A die-hard Francophile. An American helpless in the face of Parisian charms and pleasures. A New Yorker who could never seem to shake the City of Light.

✈ A New York Times Top 10 Travel Story of the Year

Travel + Leisure

It's not just institutions like The Met, shows like Art Basel, and fairs like Frieze that are worth visiting. All over the U.S., there's plenty of inspiring, renowned, and renegade art to be seen.

National Geographic

No monument is perfect, but historians say these six U.S. memorials rise above the others.

The New York Times

Sure you can have a tango-filled, steak-fueled weekend in Buenos Aires. But Argentina’s capital and largest city also has a much more contemporary side that has been emerging from its traditional roots and European influences for years now.

The New York Times

Chocolate — like fashion, wine and finance — has become a complex cultural phenomenon. There is basic chocolate for the masses, artisanal chocolate for purists and avant-garde creations for connoisseurs.

Daily News

As we pass around reading lists and take (small) comfort in the fact that one perk of being a shut-in is having time to crack open a few books, let us remember: bookstores need us.

The New York Times

The French have elevated many things to high art: fashion, flirting, foie gras. Chocolate is no exception. With boutiques that display truffles as rapturously as diamonds, the experience of visiting a Parisian chocolatier can be sublime.

✈ A New York Times Top 10 Travel Story of the Year

Travel + Leisure

While there’s no shortage of hotel options in the City of Light, most are found in central quartiers, like Saint-Germain-des-Près and l’Opera, which are typically trafficked more by tourists than locals. For a more authentic Parisian experience, it pays to climb into a double-digit arrondissement.

Hartford Magazine

Paris in the springtime. Is there anything more lovely and romantic? What, then, do you do when that trip to Paris includes children?

Saveur

Persian cuisine is notoriously hard to pin down. Once a vast empire that spanned the Middle East, now when we talk about Persia, we’re usually talking about Iran, a large, diverse country with a rich culinary tradition.

SilverKris Magazine

A new chapter for Manhattan’s MoMA reveals an evolving art scene across the city.

National Geographic

A dusty gray C-130 rolled to a stop just as the sun was going down over the tarmac of the Air National Guard Station at the Groton-New London Airport in Connecticut on Friday. The plane wasn’t carrying its usual haul of utility helicopters or jeeps.

Travel + Leisure

Sonoma Valley. Just the name suggests natural decadence and glorious beauty. Which makes natural disasters, like the recent Kincade Fire, all the more devastating.

T Magazine

Julien David apprenticed with Narciso Rodriguez and Ralph Lauren in New York, but when the 31-year-old French designer ventured out on his own, he went back to Square 1: the scarf.

The New York Times

Dan Giusti, who headed the kitchen at Noma in Denmark, has replaced prefab food with freshly made fare. But he still struggles to find skilled help and change students’ tastes.

EveryDay With Rachael Ray

These sweet, almond-laced French delicacies are having a real U.S. moment. We break down why they’re worth it. 

National Geographic Traveler

Parsnip soup, sole meunière, plum clafouti—as souvenirs go, these are more original than an Eiffel Tower tchotchke. Tastier, too.

Hartford Magazine

They’re an American icon, a symbol of appreciation, and are said to keep the doctor away. But what do we really know about apples?