Guides for 30 cities — where to stay, when to go, and sample itineraries you can make your own. Each one is a starting point for the planner.
Tokyo is less a single city than a constellation of districts, each with its own personality.
Kyoto rewards travelers who slow down.
Paris is built around its arrondissements like rings of a tree.
Rome is a city where you trip over 2,000 years of history while looking for lunch.
Barcelona divides into the medieval old city (Gothic Quarter, El Born) and the orderly grid of Eixample (Gaudí country).
Lisbon is a city of hills, tiled facades, and slow afternoons.
London rewards depth over breadth.
Amsterdam is compact enough to walk across in an hour, and biking is the way locals move.
Berlin is a city that takes longer to love than most.
Reykjavik is more a base than a destination — the magic of Iceland is what's outside the city.
Prague survived World War II largely intact, which is why the medieval core looks like a fairytale.
Copenhagen is design civilization.
Vienna is imperial in scale and slow in pace.
Dublin is a small capital that rewards conversation.
Istanbul straddles two continents and two thousand years.
Dubai is sleek, hot, and unapologetically built.

Marrakech is sensory overload by design.
Cape Town has one of the most spectacular settings of any city.
Bangkok is loud, hot, delicious, and exhausting in the best way.
Singapore is hyper-modern, multicultural, and clean to the point of clinical.
Seoul is fast, layered, and runs on coffee, BBQ, and Wi-Fi everywhere.
Ubud is the cultural and spiritual heart of Bali — rice paddies, art markets, yoga retreats, and warungs.
Hanoi is a city of small plastic stools, motorbike rivers, and impossibly good $2 meals.
Mexico City is one of the great food cities of the world right now.
Five boroughs, five experiences.
New Orleans is a city that runs on music, food, and water.
San Francisco fits a lot into 7 miles square.
Buenos Aires has the bones of Paris and the energy of Madrid.
Rio's setting is unmatched — mountains rising from beach to sky.
Sydney is built around its harbor.