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Fall 2025

Track Wolves, Dive Shipwrecks, Hunt for Truffles: 52 Epic Adventures in Every State

Your guide to adrenaline-pumping, wildlife-filled, off-the-beaten-path experiences across all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.

September 16, 2025 12:35 PM

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Nicholas DeRenzo

Food + Drink

The Best Meals We Ate in 2019

We’ve selected the standout breakfasts, killer lunches, and dreamy dinners that have lingered in our memories as the best tastes of the year. Dig in.

December 20, 2019 01:18 PM

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Staff

Restaurants + Cafés

Is This the Best Breakfast in Asia?

Forget coffee: From Vietnam to China, a steaming bowl of noodles is the best part of waking up.

April 12, 2017 11:57 AM

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Georgia Freedman

Cities We Love

My Week of Living Like a Roman

An AFAR Ambassador Spends a Week Learning Italian in the Eternal City

June 5, 2018 01:30 PM

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Tanveer Badal

Food + Drink

Chef’s Diary: How to Do the Ultimate New York Food Crawl

Chef Chris Shepherd’s ultimate NYC food tour.

July 17, 2015 03:17 PM

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Jen Murphy

Hotels

The Most Anticipated U.S. Hotel Openings of 2019

We’re looking forward to checking in to these 10 new hotels in the new year.

December 18, 2018 05:42 PM

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Sandra Ramani

Destination Spotlight

To Italy, With Love

Touching on everything from tailor-made suits in Naples to ribbons of fresh pasta in Umbria, these stories will have you booking your next plane ticket.

May 14, 2020 09:22 AM

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Staff

Bars + Nightlife

Why Spain Is the Best Place to Rekindle a Love of Late Nights

AFAR spins the globe and sends novelist Mira T. Lee on a last-minute trip to Spain, where she rediscovers a forgotten side of herself.

July 24, 2019 03:29 PM

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Mira T. Lee

Restaurants + Cafés

5 Reasons San Francisco’s China Live Is a Pretty Big Deal

You may want to reconsider your takeout plans after seeing this place.

March 1, 2017 11:48 AM

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Nicole Antonio

Beer, Wine, + Spirits

Meet the Natural Wine Rebels Transforming France’s Loire Valley

It may seem like nothing changes in the Loire Valley, where the grand châteaux and rolling vineyards have existed for centuries. But beneath that tranquility, a wine revolution is growing.

December 9, 2019 12:24 PM

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Emma John

Beaches

Beyond Tokyo: Exploring Okinawa, the Hawaii of Japan

A visit to Okinawa, famous for its long-living people, will make you want to stay as long as you can, too.

November 29, 2016 08:44 PM

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Janice Leung Hayes

Epic Trips

The Unexpected Road Trip You Need to Take Now

Namibia may not be the first place that comes to mind when you think “road trip,” but that’s about to change.

July 5, 2017 04:42 PM

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Dana Brindle

Books

Required Reading: 29 New Books for Every Type of Traveler

From a history of the German punk movement to an illustrated, kid-friendly guide to the world’s greatest mountain, there’s a book on this list for each adventurer in your life.

October 10, 2018 04:43 PM

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Aislyn Greene

Cities We Love

Is This the Most Transcendent Way to Explore New York City?

A New Yorker rediscovers her city by crossing the bridges that connect it.

August 28, 2017 08:26 PM

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Valerie Rains

Travel Tales

A Literary Trip to Lisbon Is the Best Way to Uncover Portugal’s Hidden Beauty

In Portugal, novelist Charmaine Craig searches for the ghost of her hero, goes on a high-speed chase for delicious pork, and ponders the mystery of a writer’s trunk.

September 24, 2018 12:42 PM

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Charmaine Craig

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