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New York City may be one of the most written-about places in the United States. Here are some of the best reads about the five boroughs to build anticipation before you go.

Whether you’re looking for a beach vacation or a one-of-a-kind experience, there’s a hotel in Barbados ready for you.

HBO’s “We’re Here” teaches us to slow down, listen, and leave places we visit the better for it.

Be it a flask with a flashlight or scotch to your door, these gifts will make any whiskey (or whisky) fan light up this holiday season.

The U.S. joins over a dozen countries that allow a third-gender option on passports.

Bit by bit, travelers are returning to the city that was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020.

We may not be in crowded pubs, but that doesn’t mean we can’t eat, drink, and be merry.

There won’t be large crowds waving rainbow flags amid the coronavirus pandemic, but a Global Pride celebration will happen (virtually) in 2020, with the Black Lives Matter movement at its center.

No one should ever drink alone.

Fans of the hit show can tour the wacky town at a new pop-up exhibition.

A new 125-mile bike trail will be the newest addition to the Northern Territory’s burgeoning adventure travel scene.

Ohara is a small town known for its fishing port (in fact, roughly 60 percent of all of the ise-ebi, or Japanese spiny lobster, caught in Japan comes from Ohara Port). It is about a 1 1/2 hour train ride from Tokyo Station on the Wakashio express. The overall atmosphere of the place is very relaxed and friendly, much like most of the countryside in Japan.

Jonesboro, Georgia, located 15 miles south of Atlanta, is the town that inspired Margaret Mitchell’s timeless classic Gone with the Wind. The Road to Tara Museum, located in an 1867 train depot, starts with the history of the region as a forerunner to the book. The Battle of Jonesboro was the last battle before Sherman captured Atlanta. The costumes and artifacts from the film come mostly from the private collection of Herb Bridges, the largest collector of GWTW memorabilia. Highlights of the collection include a signed first edition of Mitchell’s book, Scarlett O’Hara’s pantalettes worn in the movie and items taken from the Loew’s Theater where the film premiered.

What trip to Ireland is complete without a stay in a castle hotel? Ashford fulfills even the wildest castle fantasies with its crenellated towers, medieval-looking canopy beds, and esteemed falconry program that lets guests explore its 350 woodland acres with birds of prey on their arms. An hour north of Galway on the Cong River with views of Lough Corrib, Ireland’s second-largest lake, Ashford Castle is so straight-from-a-fairytale that it’s a favorite wedding locale: Pierce Brosnan, for one, so loved the castle’s lake views and wood-paneled drawing rooms that he held his wedding reception here in 2001. (Other celebrity guests range from Oscar Wilde to Brad Pitt to Princess Grace of Monaco.)

First built by Anglo Normans in the 13th century, the castle’s current look owes mostly to the Guinness family, who overhauled the site in the 1800s. It’s been a hotel since the 1930s and is currently undergoing renovations including updates to the nine-hole golf course.

In an age when many independent bookstores have surrendered to the advance of chain stores and Amazon, City Lights is a true survivor. Since it was founded by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1956, it has served as a gathering place for San Francisco’s literary communities. Everyone from beat poets to left-wing critics of America have found a welcome here. City Lights is also a publishing house, with Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems being perhaps the single most famous book it has put out, though it counts scores of other works by some of America’s leading contemporary literary figures on its list. You can drop in anytime to find an unexpected tome, and the store also has a crowded calendar of readings.