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Fresh air and scenic grounds make sculpture gardens the perfect antidote to wintry cabin fever.

Start planning your 2023 travels to these 12 places—the most creative, delicious, and soul-reviving destinations of the year.

In this year’s series of Epic Trips, we travel to Brazilian wetlands, the High Arctic’s kingdom of polar bears, even to the edge of space to see some of the world’s most stunning environments from different angles.

For one British writer left adrift by Brexit, a cross-continental train trip might be the best way to reconnect with her European neighbors.

Traveling with intention better connects us with our destinations and ourselves.

A hotbed of culture and creativity, Minnesota’s Twin Cities (and beyond) make for an artistic getaway. Here, one of the state’s local creative treasures shares his top picks of where to go and what to see.

For the first time in two years, the Chinati Foundation—a contemporary museum located on the outskirts of artsy Marfa, Texas—will host its annual open house, celebrating the works of artists Dan Flavin and Hyong-Keun Yun.

With world-class art collections and institutions dedicated to music and Black sports history, this prairie town has emerged as a cultural hub contender.

The weather may be cooling down, but the art world is just heating up, with a slate of exciting exhibitions scheduled to debut across the United States

Brugge is a fairy tale come true, with all those walkable streets and beautiful canal waterways. You’re guaranteed to love this town. Yes, boat excursions aimed to tourists can be unbearably cheesy, but the five small companies that operate these 30-45 minute visits by water, appear to all be exceptions to this rule. Grand descriptions of homes and buildings, while soaking up the unique perspectives from under the bridges and on the water, leaves you wanting more when the boat returns to where you embarked. Each boat can accommodate close to 30 people and most of the operators get started at about 10 am each day during the months of March through November. You’ll clearly see the signs for where you can hop on and the price for adults tends to be around 8 to 10 Euros per person. Grab a scarf or jacket in case you get cold on the water and have your camera packed. The views of this charming town, only get better by boat.

This Belgian-style pub is one of the most unheralded and underrated places to drink and dine in the country. The beers are brilliant. Brugge make the best Abbey Trippel I’ve ever tried (though I will admit, I have yet to visit Belgium and drink a trippel in the place it was born). The mussels (all 10 varieties) are sublime! If you like Belgian beers you’ll love this joint. Broad Ripple, a funky little suburb of Indianapolis, has an outstanding pub culture with at least four breweries brewing four distinct styles of beer. Heaven.

These people claim to have a vial of Christ’s blood that was given to them during or after the crusades.

Sivan Askayo visited Flanders as a guest of Visit Flanders. For a small city, Bruges has quite a lot of museums (16). I ended up visiting the Memling Museum, also known as Sint Jan Hospital Museum. The museum has six paintings by Hans Memling, a German-born painter who moved to Flanders and worked in the tradition of early ‘Netherlandish’ painting. The building, which used to be a home for nuns and monks who took care of pilgrims and the sick, was in service for 800 years. Walking through the old part of the hospital, it is worth visiting the nuns’ dormitory and the guards’ rooms. In another part of the hospital, which now serves as a museum, you can enjoy some original paintings by Flemish Primitives alongside well-known Flemish painters. (The changing exhibits present other painters, such as Picasso and Miro.)

It’s not hard to spot the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Just look for the giant shuttlecock sculptures displayed on the 20-plus-acre lawn in front of the building. When Claes Oldenburg and his late wife, Coosje van Bruggen, first installed the works in the museum’s sculpture park, they created a public uproar, with locals deeming them “not art.” Today, they’re practically the Nelson-Atkins’s mascots—and a magnet for Instagram if there ever was one. The museum itself consists of two structures—a neoclassical original, with a traditional colonnade and marble steps, and the much-more-modern Bloch Building, which resembles a glowing light box. Across both, visitors will find more than 35,000 works of art, including robust Asian, ceramic, and photography collections as well as several examples of centuries-old furniture. Tour the galleries, visit one of the regular traveling exhibitions, and don’t miss a pit stop at the gift store, where you can pick up a ceramic shuttlecock ornament to take home.

From the soaring copper tower of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum to the pillars of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco celebrates the artistic and architectural. Public sculptures line the waterfront and spike out of parks. Contemporary art museums like Yerba Buena Center for the Arts host avant-garde installations, while the alleys in the Mission District tell social tales across building facades. (SFMOMA, closed for renovation through early 2016, sent its collection “on the go,” appearing throughout the city.) The Contemporary Jewish Museum, housed in a Daniel Libeskind building, hosts Judaic art installations and workshops while the Museum of African Diaspora shares how African art has influenced world art.