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From a Japanese art island to a creative colony among ancient olive groves in Israel, these are the global art towns, big and small, we’d happily visit.

Pilot Maxime Proulx flies an “ICU in the air” for Montreal-based Skyservice Air Ambulance, transporting severely injured and gravely ill travelers to hospitals close to home.

From a two-cell jailhouse to a vintage bowling alley, here are the Lone Star State’s most eccentric stays.

Afar’s team roamed wide in 2024. These were our favorite spots from a year of exploring.

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

At the new Sound Off Quiet Retreat at Napa’s Calistoga Ranch, you can power down your phone and recharge your spirit with meditative hiking, wine-infused wellness treatments, and visits with wine country’s cutest farm animals.

A big trip can mean lots of logistics and planning—here’s what you need to consider.

A dispatch from an American who recently spent three weeks in the country.

We chat with the first American female captain of a megaship and learn how she started out, what it’s like to live on a cruise ship, and the most interesting day she’s ever had at sea.

Clare Elliott, assistant curator for the Menil Collection, tells the story behind Houston’s most influential art figures.

Photographer Ilona Szwarc explores identity and femininity in her images of rodeo’s youngest heroines.

These expert tips make it easier to travel the world in a wheelchair.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, we went back in the AFAR archives to honor some of our best storytellers.

From the rebirth of the world’s most beloved dining experience to a New York chef’s foray into Los Angeles, here are the restaurants to visit in 2018.

With the Delta variant having changed the pandemic risk calculus, families with unvaccinated kids are left trying to figure out how to travel safely and whether they even should right now.