How to Get into Dozens of Private Architectural Treasures Around the World

Open House weekends provide insider access to beautifully designed buildings across the globe. Here are eight places to visit this fall as the architectural initiative grows in popularity—including Asia’s first participating city. Afar.com, October 2018

Food Hall Crawl

Impeccably styled multivendor food halls are popping up from Philadelphia to West Palm Beach. These eight are worth seeking out. AFAR, September/October 2018

In Unusual New York City Venues, the Taste for Classical Music Expands

In New York, high art thrives far from Lincoln Center in offbeat locales like restaurants and living rooms. The Washington Post, January 2017

See the Stylish Side of Vancouver

Emerging design and art districts, along with new cocktail spots and boutiques, are making the British Columbian city a haven for creatives. NYMag.com, March 2016

Explore Contemporary Art in Cornwall

The rugged southern tip of England is a creative hive, with world-class installations, design-minded new hotels, and imaginative restaurants. NYMag.com, September 2015

Vancouver and Pemberton

A number of colorful, retro-tinged projects have brought a newfound urbanity to rugged Vancouver. New York Magazine, April 2014

Sweden by Sailboat

With twenty hours of daylight, 8,000 islands, and rocky inlets dotted with red clapboard houses, it’s no wonder the Bohuslän Coast is awash in sailboats come summertime. New York Magazine, April 2013

The Sistine Chapel of the Andes

Just miles from Peru’s Incan ruins lie artifacts from another era—beautiful Baroque churches that married Spanish design with indigenous culture. Smithsonian.com, January 2012

Demystifying Machu Picchu

Whether you approach by bus, train, or foot, Machu Picchu, improbably balanced on a green-carpeted ridge, always inspires awe. No longer the overgrown lost city that explorer Hiram Bingham located a century ago this year, the ruins now draw visitors in droves. Travel+Leisure, October 2011

With a Map and a Mission: 500 Miles, 10 Days, 1 Bike

On a solo bike tour in Maine, I got to know the texture of the state: roads bumpy with frost heaves, air thick with the smell of scorched hay and salty gusts at the crests of hills. The Boston Globe, August 2010

London’s Secret Gardens

London’s small green spaces offer intimate vantage points on the sprawling city, nooks where its history is personal, touchable. They give visitors a sense of discovering a hidden world. The Washington Post, July 2010

A London Theater Celebrates 150 Years

Down a grim alley in Wapping, past elevated train tracks and housing projects, sits the world’s oldest music hall, Wilton’s. NYTimes.com, December 2009