Loews Hôtel Vogue Montreal, Canada Modern, $$Located amid the hustle and bustle of Montreals historic Golden Square Mile, Loews Hôtel Vogue is a family-friendly refuge with a certain je ne sais quoi that would delight the most discerning travelers. Fully renovated in 2012, the pied-à-terre-like guest rooms have chic, modern decor and are flooded with natural light. A classic French restaurant with a local touch feeds hungry guests, while so

Presented in collaboration with our partners at Nanjing Tourism.NANJING, China — Confucius says year of the dog (2018) is the year to get yourself to Nanjing. There’s more to the Land of the Red Dragon than the Great Wall and fantastic dumplings (although both are reason enough to book a trip). A 75-minute, high-speed train ride north of Shanghai to Nanjing delivers travelers to bustling city streets, ancient festivals, blossoming plu

Presented in collaboration with our partners at Nanjing Tourism.NANJING, China – Globalization and the ease of information sharing can make it difficult to find an authentic travel experience that everyone hasnt already posted on Instagram. But Nanjing, a city of ancient greatness transformed in modern times, offers just that. This Chinese city in the Yangtze River Delta is the real deal.Nanjing, one of the nations most important cities for

Hoxton ParisParis, FranceTrendy, $$ ($130)PARIS – Not many stylish, millennial-friendly hotels make a point of incorporating 300-year-old architecture into their design aesthetic, but — perhaps because this is Paris, where history is ever present — Hoxton Paris did. The hotel is housed in an 18th century hôtel particulier that was built for Etienne Rivié, a top advisor to Louis XV, and served as his private residence. Its three

Washington D.C.s Adams Morgan neighborhood has long been a bastion for the cool and creative. To give us the grand tour, we phoned up Jack Inslee, founder and executive director of Full Service Radio, a community-driven internet radio station and podcast network broadcast out of The Line DC hotel lobby. WASHINGTON D.C. – Adams Morgan has everything I could ask for in an urban neighborhood. International food, late-night happenings, and

Legendary San Francisco food and arts mavens Gayle Pirie and John Clark — masterminds behind the restaurant-slash-cultural institution Foreign Cinema as well as coauthors of the new Foreign Cinema Cookbook — explore the venues driving an arts renaissance in the Mission District.MISION DISTRICT, San Francisco — For nearly twenty years, the Mission has been Foreign Cinemas home and inspiration, influencing the food, team, an

The GoreLondon, EnglandTraditional, $$ ($260)When London hosted the first-ever World’s Fair in 1851, known as The Great Exhibition, over six million curious minds — Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, and Charlotte Brontë among them — flocked to Hyde Park, hoping for a glimpse of the cutting-edge inventions on display that would propel England and the world through the 19th century. As it happens, some of those six m

On tour of Japans art scene from Tokyo to Naoshima, Paula de la Cruz finds work that is edible, floral, visual, and much more.JAPAN — Hidden behind a sparse, bright-white living room, all chrome and white leather, is a small artist’s studio packed to the ceiling with rolls of paper. I’m sitting on the floor receiving careful instructions from Takafumi Asakura, an ink-wash artist working and living in Tokyo, on how to draw with black i

The Sistine Chapel opens its doors to the world with a live-streamed performance by Stabat Mater, allowing the public to photograph and record its interior for the first time.In spring of 2018, the Sistine Chapel went live, notching in two firsts — the Sistine Chapel being live-streamed, and a British choir (led by Harry Christophers and The Sixteen with Britten Sinfonia) performing in over two decades. It was an incredible backdrop f

Philadelphia has a thriving restaurant scene that is grown-up and unpretentious. PHILADELPHIA — It had been over ten years since my last trip to Philadelphia. Back then, I was a wide-eyed freshman at the University of Pennsylvania and a California native unprepared for my first winter. It didn’t take long for me to fall in love with the city’s cobblestone side streets, diverse crowd, and cherry water ice on hot, sticky days. Like

Portugal seems to have it all: City scenes, beach getaways, mountain hideouts. It’s rich with culture and history, food and wine, and fresh design. Its also relatively safe, affordable, and utterly charming. Plan your trip using this list of nine destinations and excellent hotel destinations as your jumping-off point.Lisbon What’s to love: The capital city is full of old history and modern flare, and the contrast is what gives the place suc

Line LAKoreatown, Los Angeles Trendy, $$ (from $199)If Koreatown is the place to be in Los Angeles — let’s take the many electric eateries, hidden bars, and new developments popping up as substantial evidence that it is — then surely Line LA is the place to stay. For anyone familiar with the Sydell Group, which owns and operates the Freehand and the Nomad hotels (both have outposts in Los Angeles), as well as additional Line hot

Viceroy ChicagoChicago, ILRetro, $$ ($195)Chicago is explosive. The culinary scene is world-class, record numbers of visitors are breathing new life into fabled neighborhoods, and the city is reconnecting with its storied architectural roots. Now take all of these developments, put them into hotel form, and you have Viceroy Chicago. Located in the heart of Chicago’s ultra-affluent Gold Coast neighborhood, the hotel is in the thick of t

Dont let the heat get you down. A Yankee transplant and innkeeper of The Louie, in New Orleans, shares her newfound tips for surviving summer in the South. NEW ORLEANS — My tolerance for sticky summer heat has always been mediocre. Even after living through ten Brooklyn summers, where fried sidewalk eggs are a thing and the annual installment of a window AC unit is ceremonious, I never quite accepted the inevitable subway sw

The Pelham LondonLondon, EnglandEclectic, $$$ ($350) From the outside, The Pelham London is indistinguishable from the adjoining townhouses along this exclusive, tucked-away lane in South Kensington: glistening white, with delicate cast iron railings and identical moldings. Inside this beautiful yet stolid facade, however, is a whimsical hotel bursting with discordant palettes, various textile motifs, and furnishings from every era —

If you find yourself staring through your office window, Walter Mittying about the lack of an adventurous, solo-traveler life, put down that spreadsheet and pick up one of these inspiring travelogues. Couchsurfing in Iran: Revealing a Hidden WorldBy Stephan OrthWhats to Love: Partaking in a smorgasbord of forbidden fruits, Stephan Orth explores Iran from a series of local couches, dispelling stereotypes and discovering paradoxes, from

When it comes to holiday destinations in the south of France, Côte dAzur has long held the limelight. But Languedoc-Roussillon, which stretches from Provence south to the Spanish border, is giving it a run for its money, and not just because the sun-baked, coastal landscape produces some of the countrys best wine. Fathom contributor Shanika Hillocks walks us through another side of the region. LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON, France – The coastal regi

If you’ve only been to the Greek islands, you’ve been missing out on another side of the country. The mainland, with its countless small towns, vibrant farms, and picturesque landscapes, is a curious (and hungry) traveler’s dream trip. Fathom editor Daniel Schwartz takes us on a spin through the heartland.THESSALY, Greece — Few tourists make it out of Athens unless they’re on a ferry to one of the country’s roughly 200 inhabited islan

Artist Residence LondonLondon, EnglandEclectic, $$ ($230) Before there was Artist Residence London there was Justin Salisbury, who, after dropping out of school to help run his family’s B&B in Brighton, was faced with a problem: How do you fix up a hotel in dire need of a facelift — with no budget? He placed an ad calling for artists willing to help redesign the space in exchange for room and board, and before long hundreds replied, p

You’ve heard of Italys Cinque Terre. But to experience the Italian Riviera as something other than a touristy (or costly) affair, just head north to Santa Margherita Ligure. Fathom contributor Nick Papa goes beyond the packed towns to uncover the laid-back, local charm of Liguria.LIGURIA, Italy — In 1907, my great-great-grandfather Giuseppe DiMartini traded his home in the hills above Santa Margherita Ligure for the busy streets of Ne