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A great trip is about more than running through a checklist of landmarks—it’s about having an adventure for the senses that dives into local culture, flavors, and history for the real story.

Sailing to Paradise

This mortician traveled the world to examine funeral rituals across cultures. What she found, she says, wasn’t morbid. And she doesn’t want you to think so, either.

Get a real insider perspective on how a neighborhood becomes cool—and how best to see it.

Writer Anya von Bremzen explores the fluid nature of food, identity, and community in Gaziantep, a Turkish city renowned for its cuisine—and reshaped by the Syrian war.

These experiences take you way beyond the 4x4.

Restaurants and pop-up dinners led by immigrants and asylees cook up cutting-edge cuisine with a side of cross-cultural connection.

Here’s what it’s like to stay at the TWA Hotel, which welcomed its first guests on May 15.

The Virginia city honors its past while enjoying a joyous and art-filled reinvention.

Desert, beach, or national park? Take your pick.

Since she first started working in the hospitality industry two decades ago, Vida Afram has cleaned nearly 60,000 hotel rooms.

Waterfalls, national parks, and UNESCO-listed shrines and temples. Need we say more?

Afar’s picks for the 25 best new hotels in the world.

A trail of nine saunas in Kuusamo, Finland, introduces visitors to the many different kinds of Finnish sauna in the coziest way possible.

For AFAR’s third annual Travelers’ Choice destinations awards, our readers cast more than 100,000 votes to recognize their top places to go. Get ready to hit the road—the world awaits.