The Best Places to Go in North America & the Caribbean in 2025

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To arrive at our list of the Best Places to Go in North America and the Caribbean in 2025, we painted with the broadest strokes possible. Quite literally, because these destinations test the physical bounds of the region. From Alberta to Cuba, and Denver to Greenland (which, yes, is technically part of North America), we’ve left no possibility unturned. Within this wide geographical stretch, there’s also a diversity of travel inspiration—from nature explorations to food and wine trails and cultural immersions. In Alaska, where the much-loved Glacier Bay National Park celebrates 100 years of being made a national monument, Native-run adventures abound on Kodiak Island, where small groups of visitors can share space with the largest subspecies of brown bear in the world. In Canada’s Banff and Lake Louise, a sprawling new wellness center at a beloved Canadian Rockies hotel will offer health and vitality alongside dazzling views. Out and away in Greenland, new access to parts previously untrammeled means more visitors can enjoy its majestic fjords and incandescent northern lights from land and sea. If that doesn’t feel soaring enough, there’s Space Coast, Florida, where you can claim your spot to witness historic rocket launches (and sample more earthly adventures like kayaking through its bioluminescent waters). It’s not all space travel and remote landscapes. If you’re drawn to more intimate experiences, perhaps you’ll consider Barbuda: the 62-square-mile gem in the eastern Caribbean Sea will come alive with fresh energy (there’s also a new Nobu Beach Inn arriving) as its airport reopens after the devastation of 2017’s Hurricane Irma. Or maybe Alexander Valley, California—where the establishment of a new wine region is underway—calls out to you, for Cabernet Sauvignons that rival the best of ‘em and gastronomic delights that range from Michelin-star meals to family-style spreads. In the end, whatever catches your fancy, we hope that you’ll bookmark this list, and use it to plan where you’ll visit in North America and the Caribbean in 2025. See you out there! —Arati Menon

This is part of our global guide to the Best Places to Go in 2025—find more travel inspiration here.

The Best Places to Go in North America & the Caribbean in 2025

Alaska

Go for: the 100th anniversary of a beloved cultural tradition; Native-led wildlife viewingPlay/Pause Button

The year 2025 will mark 100 years since the Serum Run that brought lifesaving diphtheria antitoxins from Nenana to Nome—making the commemorative annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race an extra-special, all-Alaskan experience.Getty

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It’ll be another 34 years before Alaska as a state turns 100 years old. But some of its best-known events and attractions are hitting that milestone in 2025, like the Serum Run, a sled dog relay that brought lifesaving diphtheria antitoxins from Nenana to Nome in 1925. The event has been celebrated annually with the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which enthralls visitors and locals who gather along its 1,000-mile course to watch top mushers and their dogs compete. To catch the start of the race, post up at the Wildbirch Hotel, Anchorage’s first new major lodging in 20 years. The boutique stay, with 252 design-forward guest rooms and partnerships with local artists, will open in early 2025 and offer unobstructed views of the Iditarod start line. Also turning 100 is the unrelentingly beautiful Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (which became a national monument in 1925), filled with rugged mountains, wild coastline, and abundant wildlife. It is the ancestral land of the Huna Tlingit people, who in recent years have collaborated with the National Park Service to restore previously suppressed oral histories and cultural traditions. One endeavor was building the Xúnaa Shuká Hít tribal house, the first permanent clan house on these shores since a glacier destroyed villages more than 250 years ago. The Huna people also own nearby Icy Strait Point, one of the most exciting cruise ship destinations in southeast Alaska. Come 2025 it will welcome new sailings including Princess Cruises’ 22-day Ultimate Alaska Solstice voyage, which will depart from San Francisco in June. The itinerary takes advantage of the 19-plus hours of sunlight available during the summer solstice, giving you that much more time to take in views of Glacier Bay National Park, Hubbard Glacier, the College Fjord, and more. For an on-land adventure with a side of guided bear viewing, head to Native-owned Kodiak Brown Bear Center on verdant Kodiak Island, where small groups of visitors share space with the largest subspecies of brown bear in the world. In the summer of 2025, KBBC will open a new wellness center built on a picturesque bluff and offer new, six-day fly-fishing programs on the Karluk River; by evening, guests can retreat to their wood cabins that have views of the lake—after a communal Banya-style steam bath that the Alutiiq people call maqiwik. Notably, Alaska Airlines has ramped up its scheduling in 2024 by adding a daily nonstop to New York alongside its existing service to San Diego, Nashville, and Portland, Oregon, making it easier than ever to get here. —Lisa Maloney

Book a stay at Wildbirch Hotel

Alexander Valley

Go for: a Sonoma County hidden gem that’s flexing its Bordeaux and Merlots

Tucked into the northern end of Sonoma County, the serene, scenic Alexander Valley has long been home to some of the wine country’s finest Bordeaux varietals, but it’s often overlooked in favor of the booming culinary and wine scene of nearby Healdsburg. That’s about to change with the establishment of the Pocket Peak AVA—a wine-growing region within the valley defined by its steep, undulating hills and volcanic and gravelly loam soils—expected in fall 2025. Pocket Peak wines will consist largely of Merlots and Cabernet Sauvignons from sought-after producers such as Skipstone Vineyard, Stonestreet, and Devil Proof Vineyards—and these wineries are stepping into the moment with grabby offerings. The private experience at Skipstone, which will debut a sleek new tasting venue in summer 2025, includes a vineyard tour and alfresco tastings of its flagship bottles. Go the whole nine yards and book a stay at the Residence at Skipstone, an 8,344-square-foot bookable manse that sleeps 10 and boasts sweeping views of the valley, which opened in 2023. At Stonestreet, guests can book the Stonestreet Mountain Excursion, a guided driving tour of the 5,500-acre estate, including a stop at a 2,400-foot-high vantage point. The dining in the valley is almost as coveted as the wine: Plan ahead and book the 20-course tasting experience at Geyserville’s Michelin-starred Cyrus, which opened in 2023 and where chef Douglas Keane relocates guests to different locations throughout the meal for a “dining journey” across the restaurant’s lounge, kitchen, and chocolate room. The town’s more casual offerings include Diavola, the favorite of local winemakers for its authentic Italian dishes such as spaghettini with pork cheek ragu, and the Wild West–style Geyserville Gun Club for inspired cocktails like the Odd Fellow Manhattan, made with rye, bourbon, and Carpano Antica. Or you could head to Rustic at Francis Ford Coppola Winery, where the acclaimed director shares his personal pantheon of family-style recipes paired with, naturally, wine from the very vineyards you overlook as you tuck into your grilled salmon acqua pazza. —Katie Kelly Bell

Book a stay at the Residence at Skipstone

Barbuda

Go for: a much-awaited recovery of a famously paradisiacal island

Access to beautiful Barbuda is getting easier—the island’s new Burton-Nibbs International Airport opened its doors on October 3, meaning visitors will no longer be reliant on ferries or puddle jumpers to reach this 62-square-mile gem, a tucked-away sliver of paradise that’s historically been far less touristed than its larger sister island of Antigua. Its opening is a sign of recovery (albeit a contentious one) after 2017’s Hurricane Irma devastated Codrington Airport and much of the island of Barbuda. Since then, efforts to increase tourism have hinged on the construction of a new airport. While non-regional flights have yet to be announced, Caribbean airline LIAT relaunched in August, connecting travelers flying between Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, and Barbados. The new airport’s runway was built to accommodate larger aircrafts, indicating more routes to come.

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Once on Barbuda, visitors can settle in for a relaxed stay at a secluded beachfront bungalow in Barbuda Belle in the uninhabited northern tip of the island, open from November to June; in 2022, Villa Lambi, a two-bedroom villa opened on the property for weekly rentals. No visit here is complete without a day at Nobu Barbuda for cocktails and locally sourced seafood—and its adjacent beach club. Interest in the island only stands to grow over the next few years, as Robert DeNiro’s Nobu Beach Inn (yes, another Nobu, though you can’t stay at the former) opens on the pristine Princess Diana Beach in 2025 and, further along, a Rosewood Barbuda, set on 85 secluded acres of land near Codrington, debuts in 2028.

If you’re keen on extending your vacation and popping over to Antigua for a few days, the big sister island has plenty of fresh, enticing openings: Hermitage Bay, a charming hideaway tucked away on the coastline, reopened on November 1 following a multimillion-dollar renovation, having added 30 redesigned villas, more private pools, and a new beach club. For an overwater bungalow experience, head to Royalton CHIC Antigua for its dreamy new luxury accommodations. And last but not least, The Hut, Little Jumby, a beach club and restaurant on a formerly uninhabited island, opens this November and is set to be well worth a visit; get there via a 30-minute ferry from Jumby Bay or private boat from Antigua’s north coast. —Madison Flager

Book a stay at Baruba BelleBook a stay at Hermitage Bay

Baja California Sur

Go for: a classic desert road trip with stops for kitesurfing, whale watching, and luxe hideaways

This November, Alaska Airlines is launching its first direct flight in 13 years between Los Angeles and La Paz, Mexico, making now the best time to schedule a classic desert road trip through Baja California Sur. The drive is under an hour from the La Paz airport to La Ventana, an area famous for kitesurfing, and only a few hours more to East Cape, where you can stay at the forthcoming Amanvari. Located in the 1,500-acre beachfront Costa Palma development, this luxury utopia, opening by the fall of 2025, will feature contemporary design that integrates indoor-outdoor spaces and its own stretch of white-sand beach. From the East Cape, continue south to Los Cabos, making obligatory culinary stops at picturesque Flora Farms and the sleek Manta by Enrique Olvera at The Cape, A Thompson Hotel. About an hour north along the Pacific Coast of the peninsula is Todos Santos, where boutique hotels await, like the convivial oceanside Hotel San Cristóbal and its new farm-to-table Cosecha, an outdoor restaurant offering specialties like barbacoa de picaña: beef slow-cooked on firewood for over 12 hours. Surf the reef break at nearby Cerritos Beach and hike the hotel’s backyard cliff at Punta Lobos—perfect for whale watching from December through April. A 10-minute drive from Hotel San Cristóbal is Paradero, a Brutalist hotel designed by the architects Rubén Valdez and Yashar Yektajo, which is set to unveil 24 ultra-luxury bungalows in 2025, each with soaking-tub-topped terraces. When it’s time to head back to La Paz, plan an overnight at Baja Club, a 20th-century Spanish-colonial-style villa that opened in 2021 as the town’s first boutique property or, in 2026, at the Chablé Sea of Cortez, where 70 keys will be arranged in pods along the sea, each featuring its own terrace with garden and plunge pool. —Michaela Trimble

Book a stay at The Cape, a Thompson HotelBook a stay at Hotel San Cristóbal

Banff and Lake Louise

Go for: new glacial adventures on ancient ice fields and a thermal wellness retreat with staggering viewsPlay/Pause Button

The glacial blue lakes of Banff National Park will always be one of its big draws, but a sprawling new wellness center at Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise and just-launched tours to a 10,000-year-old glacier are bound to steal some of the limelight.Getty

Marked by towering mountains, spectacular valleys, and glacial blue lakes in every direction—not to mention the postcard scenery of Banff National Park—the town of Banff and Lake Louise, a 40-minute car ride away, have attracted hikers, skiers, and skateboarders for decades. In the summer of 2024, a low-emission, low-impact tour company, the Ice Odyssey, took the prospect of adventuring up several notches by debuting trips to the Columbia Icefield, the largest in the Rocky Mountains. An all-terrain Sherp vehicle transports five guests at a time to a 10,000-year-old sheet of ice, the Athabasca Glacier, to learn about the history of this ancient site—before escorting them to a glass-floored suspended Skywalk that reveals rugged terrain, gushing waterfalls, and mountain goats some 900-feet below. Elsewhere, Lake Louise Ski Resort is adding three new high-speed lifts in time for the 2025–26 season to improve front-side access to the upper mountain and reduce congestion during peak days. If it’s relaxation you’re after, Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise has you covered. In the summer of 2025, this Canadian Rockies institution will unveil a state-of-the-art, eco-friendly thermal wellness facility offering everything from vitality pools to hydrotherapy rooms and shinrin-yoku—a traditional Japanese forest-bathing experience—all with unobstructed views of gasp-worthy Lake Louise. Once rested, you’ll want to get going again, for a host of new Indigenous-led cultural immersions await. A new 90-minute tour at Banff’s Whyte Museum spotlights murals from Blackfoot and Stoney Nation artists who aim to share their connection to the region and celebrate the sacred traditions they grew up with. Bikescape, a female-owned and operated e-bike tour company, has teamed up with Buffalo Stone Woman, a revered Indigenous guide group, to offer biking tours through trails that highlight Indigenous history, like Banff’s Sundance Canyon—and the chance for guests to participate in a smudge ceremony. —Kristin Braswell

Book a stay at Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise

Boise, Idaho

Go for: a boisterous Basque festival; a food scene powered by immigrant cultures

You might be tempted to bypass Boise on your way to Sun Valley, but you’d miss out on one of the most vibrant cities in the Pacific Northwest—thanks in large part to its long history of welcoming refugees and immigrants. In 2025 that openness will be on full display at Jaialdi, a Basque festival held just once every five years and returning after a 10-year hiatus. Boise is home to one of the largest Basque populations outside Europe, and this nearly weeklong summer bash celebrates the diaspora’s rich culture with traditional food, drinks, music, and farm sports like wagon lifting and hay bale throwing. If you can’t visit during the festivities, you can still explore “Basque Block” in downtown Boise year-round. Plan your visit at lunchtime on a Wednesday or Friday, which is when the Basque Market prepares a giant pan of saffron-tinted paella on the sidewalk. Boise’s diversity has also given rise to a buzzy global food scene that’s delightfully unexpected in a state best known for its potatoes. In 2024, two local chefs were named James Beard semifinalists: Dan Ansotegui dishes out chorizos and other Basque specialties at Ansots, a casual eatery in Old Boise, and Salvador Alamilla serves a mash-up of SoCal, Michoacan, and Oaxacan fare at Amano, a five-year-old restaurant in the suburb of Caldwell. In summer 2024, Sunshine Spice Bakery & Cafe, owned by four sisters who fled the Taliban in Afghanistan the early 2000s, opened its second location in downtown Boise, where it doles out purple ube lattes, pistachio baklava, and saffron cookies each morning to streams of fans.

Downtown Boise is also having a boutique-hotel boom: Having debuted in summer 2024, The Sparrow is a hip new avatar of a 1960s motor lodge, while Hotel Renegade is a 122-key brick stunner with a rooftop bar and a Wisconsin-inspired supper club. And after more than two decades of bustling through top New York City kitchens, award-winning chef Cal Elliott returned to his hometown to open the 39-room Avery Hotel & Brasserie inside a lovingly restored 1910 building on Main Street. At this culinary-focused boutique hotel, which opened in the summer of 2023, guests can feast on upscale French classics like sole meunière and cassoulet, then wander upstairs and fall right into bed. —Sarah Kuta

Book a stay at The SparrowBook a stay at Hotel RenegadeBook a stay at the Avery Hotel & Brasserie

Cuba

Go for: the return of travel to an enduring favorite and its prismatic treasures

Cuba has long captivated visitors with its Afro-Cuban culture, UNESCO-protected cities, gelato-colored classic cars—and its loquacious, quick-witted locals. Post-pandemic, travelers can enjoy all of this once more. Cuba’s new e-visas, launched in August 2024, pave the way, as does the return of several American tour companies that had paused travel to the island. Starting in January 2025, Abercrombie & Kent’s tours will take travelers first to Camagüey, Cuba’s third-largest city—and a UNESCO World Heritage Site filled with churches, figurative sculptures, and celebrated ballet performances at the City’s Teatro Principal—before traveling west to spellbinding Trinidad, with a beach stay in the sparkly new Meliá Trinidad Península. Then travelers will go on to Cienfuegos, the city of columns, and Santa Clara, home to Che Guevara’s monumental mausoleum before landing in Havana. That same month, GeoEx tees up a range of immersive experiences in Trinidad, plus a live performance in Cienfuegos by the Chamber Orchestra, with meals at authentic Cuban paladares (private restaurants) and private salsa lessons. (Guests will drop their bags at tropical hideaway Mansión Alameda, which opened in 2023.) With Tauck, which returned to Havana in September 2024, there are opportunities to interact with fascinating locals: a baseball star, a tobacco farmer from the lush Viñales Valley, and the members of a vintage car club. ReRoot Travel’s brand-new program is similarly designed to take you off the beaten track and into the homes of artists, farmers, even Santeria priests. If you want to time your visit to Havana’s dazzling festival calendar, join Project Por Amor with Cuban-born Adolfo Nodal, on new multiday trips anchored to the International Jazz Festival (January) and the Havana Biennial art fair (November through February). A flurry of gorgeous boutique stays have opened in Havana in the last 18 months including La Distancia, in an elegantly revived mansion in the leafy neighborhood of El Vedado, and Estancia Bohemia, a luxurious stay in a reimagined 18th-century palace. By the end of 2024, Havana’s third Kempinski property will open its doors in northern Old Havana: the 219-roomed Gran Hotel Metrópolis with a rooftop pool and panoramic views. Skip sleep in favor of a night out at Mayko’s Lounge Bar, opening February 2025 in southern Old Havana. Owner Wilson Hernández is Havana’s best-known bartender, formerly of hip hideaway El del Frente, so you can expect heady cocktails, ’70s cult music, and all the vibes. —Claire Boobbyer

Book a stay at La DistanciaBook a stay at Estancia Bohemia

Denver

Go for: a polychromatic food scene; new lodgings that straddle past and present

Enjoying the outdoors is practically a requirement in Colorado, but Denver’s buzzy dining scene is finally making a good case for spending more time indoors. Following a banner year of openings in 2023, the Mile High City’s culinary scene has seen another wave of exciting chefs celebrate their culture and heritage in unique ways. Mexican cuisine that’s long been vital to the city continues to enjoy a renaissance at the hands of chefs including James Beard–nominated Ras Casiano, who brings Mayan, Aztec, and ancient Meso-American culinary traditions to Xiquita, which opened in August. Casiano looks to the tres hermanas (three sisters) Indigenous crop trio of corn, beans, and squash for his inspired cooking—think dishes like crispy masa with fermented beer salsa and beef tongue barbacoa. At Alma Fonda Fina, which opened in late 2023 and got a Michelin star in 2024, Guadalajara-born Johnny Curiel gives heritage Mexican dishes a creative spin. Pull up a seat at the chef’s counter and dig into a decadent taco de suadero with an heirloom corn tortilla, and a 12-hour Colorado brisket with salsa de arbol on top. At Odell’s Bagels, which opened in September 2024, Miles Odell lends the nuances of Japanese cooking to bagel culture, hand-rolling every bagel, house-smoking his lox, and koji-curing his pastrami. Over at Sắp Sửa, one of Denver’s hottest tables since it opened in summer 2023, Ni Nguyen brings a “nontraditional” approach to Vietnamese cooking, with dishes like lemongrass pork meatballs with Colorado peaches and pickled jalapeño; and soft scrambled egg with brown butter, trout roe, and rice. If all that food makes you thirsty, head south of downtown Denver, where Laws Whiskey House just debuted its long-awaited Whiskey Church, a state-of-the-art tasting room with big vaulted windows, pews, and spectacular views of the Rockies. New urban hotels, big and small, are joining in on the fun. Book a stay at the long-awaited Studio Gang–designed Populus, the first carbon-positive hotel in the US and an arresting addition to the city’s skyline, or at the soon-to-open Urban Cowboy in a historic Queen Anne–style Gilded Era mansion. To really immerse yourself in the city’s history, though, base yourself at the Crawford Hotel in the elegantly revamped Union Station, which just underwent a stunning makeover of its own. —Katie Kelly Bell

Book a stay at PopulusBook a stay at the Crawford Hotel

Greenland

Go for: improved access to a primordial landscape at the top of the worldPlay/Pause Button

Direct flights from North America will put Greenland’s majestic glaciers and fjords within reach—and a new pledge aims to balance visitors’ desires with the needs of local communities.Getty

In 2024, getting to Greenland from somewhere like Miami took 30 hours, three airport connections, and an enormous stash of in-flight snacks. In 2025, however, North Americans eager to see the majestic fjords, awe-inspiring icebergs, and incandescent northern lights on the world’s largest and least densely populated island can take a less circuitous route. In the capital, Nuuk International Airport (GOH), will serve as the autonomous Danish territory’s new international and domestic hub, accommodating long-haul jets and allowing direct flights—and easier connections—from the Americas. In June 2025, United Airlines will launch twice weekly service from Newark, New Jersey to Nuuk—becoming the first US airline to offer direct flights between the US and Greenland. Throughout 2025, Icelandair is also expected to launch nonstop flights into Nuuk from cities including Chicago and New York. Further out, in 2026, expanded airports in Ilulissat and Qaqortoq in South Greenland will open up access to parts of this country previously untrammeled.

Once on the ground visitors can enjoy Greenland’s rugged coastal landscapes, fascinating indigenous Inuit culture, and the opportunity to experience the country at its primordial best. Base yourself at Ilulissat’s Hotel Arctic and wake up to (you guessed it) a dreamy Arctic seascape littered with hulking icebergs. Seven new Aurora cabins have floor-to-ceiling windows made of heated glass so snow never obscures your view of the northern lights (known here as arsarnerit) illuminating Disko Bay. Get an even closer view on Diskobay Tours’ two-hour scenic sail through Ilulissat’s ice fjord, and marvel as you glide past what looks like an installation of gargantuan sculptures afloat in the most magnificent open-air museum. On land the company’s walking tour illuminates the culture and history of this former trading post. It is home to 5,000 people and more than 2,000 Greenland dogs, the indigenous sled-pulling breed that was crucial to early Greenlanders’ survival, enabling them to travel swiftly over ice fields to hunt for food. But for the deepest insight into Greenland’s culture and landscape, hop onto Arctic Umiaq Line’s coastal passenger ferry Sarfaq Ittuk, which has sailed the southwest coast since 1774, on 14-day journeys that call at 18 settlements including Sisimiut, Aasiaat, and Kangaamiut, all inaccessible by road. Some stops are less than an hour; others, half a day. As the ship sails past slate gray, snow-capped mountains to deliver both cargo and people to ports with as few as 90 residents, you’ll witness joyful reunions and tearful goodbyes that are as moving as the forbidding landscape. Or, opt to sail with luxury cruise line Ponant, which just announced new Greenland expeditions for 2025 aboard Le Commandant Charcot, the world’s first hybrid-electric polar exploration ship. The first of the two 16-day itineraries will travel from Canada’s Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the southwestern coast of Greenland; the second will start in Reykjavík and whisk guests to Greenland’s Disko Bay.

While its remote location at the top of the world makes flying and staying here expensive, Greenland isn’t for luxury lovers accustomed to being cosseted. Balancing visitors’ desires with what local communities need and what infrastructure can support is central to the country’s new Pledge Toward Better Tourism. And savvy travelers will appreciate the upside of more considered growth: fewer people to share Greenland’s majesty with. At least for now. —Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon

Book a stay at Hotel Arctic

Space Coast, Florida

Go for: soaring rockets and dazzling bioluminescence

In 2025 space travel will hit a historic milestone as NASA aims to send humans around the moon for the first time in five decades—and no vantage point beats eastern Florida’s Space Coast, the launch site for the Artemis II mission. Astrotourism fans have long flocked to this 72-mile coastline, which runs from Titusville to Palm Bay, and in 2024, this increasingly bustling space-transit hub has hosted nearly twice-weekly launches from the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral. Interstellar interest may be skyrocketing in 2025, with predictions for the strongest northern lights in decades, but the Space Coast proves Earth’s own marvels are worth skipping sleep for too: The Indian River Lagoon, which spans the region’s length, is among the best places in the country for bioluminescence viewing. During clear-bottom kayak trips with outfitters like BK Adventure, travelers can watch pops of glowing teal bejewel the inky water—the result of millions of tiny light-producing dinoflagellates and comb jellies reacting to movement. Back on land, naturalist-led night walks spotlight the Space Coast’s latest conservation win: After decades of protections and regulations, the number of sea turtle nests have not just rebounded but nearly doubled along the region’s shores in 2023. So far, nest numbers look promising into 2025 as well. By late next year, a handful of new accommodations will welcome Space Coast travelers, including the 48-room Avid Hotel near Brevard Zoo and Hyatt Place Cape Canaveral—complete with a rooftop where you can watch rockets soar. —Stephanie Vermillion

Looking for more inspiration? Read last year’s list of the Best Places to Go in North America and the Caribbean in 2024.

Arati Menon is the Global Digital Director at Condé Nast Traveler. Her experience as an editor and writer spans design, fashion, food, and business—and across print, digital, and documentary video—and her current role happily sits at the intersection of it all. She has previously worked at GQ, Architectural Digest and… Read more

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