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6 Ways to Dream a Vacation Now, but Pay Over Time or Take It Later
News about vaccines is making people wish we could be traveling again. Vendors are already helping customers make future plans—and spread the costs over time.
Shop the Markets of Marrakech from Home on a New Live Video Tour
Combining culture and commerce, a new virtual shopping tour provides the opportunity to buy handmade crafts and other items in real time while a video guide walks you through the…
Writers in Residence: How to Visit Where Great American Authors Lived and Worked
Though the best way to engage with great authors of the past is, of course, to read their work, there’s plenty to gain from visiting the places where they lived and scribbled. Touring…
You Can Now Visit the Studio Where Bob Ross Made His Iconic PBS Art Show
Fans of painter and icon of chill Bob Ross—the bearded PBS host with the Chia Pet hairdo, ASMR voice, and penchant for bucolic nature scenes—can now visit the studio where he presided…
SoCal's Six Dazzling Holiday Drive-Throughs, from Stranger Things to Elf on the Shelf
The notion that Southern Californians spend all their time in their cars is a tired cliché—but in 2020, it feels freshly apt. As one of the few options for getting out of the house…
Open a New Window: See Video Views from Homes Around the World
It may not be the most dramatic part of a trip, but there is one moment when it really hits me that I’ve left my normal life behind. After the whirlwind of flying or driving to my…
Meow! It's Japan's New Covid-Fighting Kitty Cat Mascot
Japan is putting the cat in catastrophe with its new pandemic mascot, a coronavirus-combatting kitty named Koronon. On most days, the mascot can be spotted in busy parts of Tokyo such…
Princess Diana Hotel Package Obsessively Retraces Her Stay in Chicago
Just in time for the release of The Crown's fourth season on Netflix, the Drake hotel in Chicago has put together a royal package that takes our still-burning cultural obsession with…
Lego's Epic Colosseum Set Is Company’s Largest Ever
The biggest Lego set ever created goes on sale on Black Friday. The Danish toy company's plastic-brick replica of Rome's Colosseum contains an anxiety-sparking 9,036 pieces. Can you…
Iconic Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore in Paris Fights for Survival
The bookstore beloved by the Lost Generation is now in danger of being lost itself. Shakespeare and Company was founded in Paris by Sylvia Beach just after World War I. Specializing in…
Move Over, Monkey Christ: The Potato Head of Palencia Is Spain’s Newest Botched Restoration
The restoration of another artwork in Spain has gone hilariously awry. As you'll see in the before-and-after photo above, the sculpture of a smiling woman on the facade of a bank in…
Curious About Delaware? New Driving Trail Shows Off Joe Biden’s Home State
As the home state of Joe Biden, Delaware was talked about more than usual during the 2020 election season. But many of us still don't know much about the second-smallest U.S. state…
One of the World's Oldest Travel Bookstores Needs Your Help
There may be no travel bookstore in the English-speaking world that is more venerable than the great Stanfords. The London-based stalwart, packed with books, maps, globes,…
The 50 Best Bars In The World Revealed—But Where's the USA?
Being a barfly is part of my job. Every year, for roughly a month, I become a nocturnal creature, staying out until 3am most nights, researching my city’s nightlife for the next…
Travel by Design: See The Places That Inspire Architects and Other Creative Minds
What’s it like to go on vacation with an architect? It’s not all staring at Doric columns and flying buttresses, according to a new book of photographs snapped by more than 150 leading…
New York Changes Entry Rules, Making Holiday Visits Easier
New York State, which used to mandate a vacation-unfriendly quarantine period of 14 days, has changed its entry requirements. The shift brings the state's system in line with what many…
Merriam-Webster Creates a Fun Online Word Game for Travelers
Every time we speak, we travel. English is a polyglot language derived from many tongues and made of an ever-expanding lexicon of borrowed words picked up like souvenirs from all…
Freedom Trail: A New Walking Tour of the D.C. Area's Underground Railroad
A new guided walking tour near Washingon, D.C., explores the area's African American history and hidden connection to the Underground Railroad.
A Delightful New Book About Countries That Have "Fallen Off the Map"
In this time of not being able to travel almost anywhere, one of the most intriguing new travel books is a volume that takes readers to places that no longer exist. I’m talking about…
WATCH: Kazakhstan Makes Nice—Very Nice!—with Borat By Taking His Catchphrase
The premise of the newly released Borat sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, is that Sacha Baron Cohen's titular character, a clueless Kazakh journalist, must deliver an animal or,…
Where Great Artists Worked: America's Historic Homes and Studios
Author Valerie Balint's Guide to Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios explores three centuries of the United States' artistic heritage, visiting the places where artists were inspired…
The Word Is Out: Language Museum Opens in D.C.
UPDATE, October 23, 2020: Originally scheduled to open in the spring of 2020, the Planet Word language museum in Washington, D.C., began welcoming visitors on Thursday, October 22,…
The Frommer's Gift Guide for Road Trips
The ways we wander might have shifted in 2020, but our passion to see new places has not diminished. And if anything, our urge to share our travels with the people we love has only…
Can You Find the Secret Location of Mississippi’s Tiniest Museum?
Here's all you'll get in the way of an address for a new museum in Hattiesburg, Mississippi: It's in an alley downtown. Billed as the state's tiniest showcase for collections "of all…
The Hotels Where Big TV Shows and Sports Quarantined for Their Pandemic Seasons
Producing entertainment during the Covid-19 pandemic has required Herculean ingenuity. But fortunately, at the same moment big hotels experienced downturns and shutdowns, major…