Get ready to revise your bucket list and pack your bags! The top picks for travel in 2018 range from affordable jaunts to exotic vacations, and they’re all ready to welcome visitors with open arms in the new year. Slovenia Everyone seems to be discovering this affordable gem in Eastern Europe at the same time: …

There’s always a good reason to plan a trip to Paris. The City of Light offers some of the world’s best museums, top-rated restaurants, and, apparently, sparkling water on demand. The city currently has eight fontaine pétillante, as locals call the fountains dispensing sparkling water, which they began installing in 2010, but Paris’s City Hall recently …

A photographer passed this same little lane every day. Here’s what happened when she decided to see what was at the end of it. I always loved looking at this hidden lane as I drove my children to school. Sandwiched between a pizza restaurant and a house, the lane is easily overlooked. If you don’t …

Henry Jeffreys visits a country rediscovering its viticultural riches Every 100 metres or so on the main road to Iran that runs through the Vayots Dzor province of Armenia there is a stall selling tomatoes, watermelons and Coca-Cola. I was with an Italian-Armenian businessman Zorik Gharibian and his wife Yeraz, and they suggested we stop …

Every city and town on Earth is unique, but some specimens are so extraordinary that it’s hard to believe they really exist. Here are the weirdest towns on our planet. Some of them are worthy of a long weekend visit. 12. A town where you can’t die The town of Longyearbyen, Svalbard, is one of …