The World's Greatest Places of 2024
100 extraordinary destinations to explore
How we chose the list
Places to Stay

Modern Elder Academy
Santa Fe, N.M.

White Desert
Antarctica

Angama Amboseli
Kimana Sanctuary, Kenya

Bambu Indah
Ubud, Indonesia

Vermelho Hotel
Melides, Portugal

Sun Ranch
Coopers Shoot, Australia

Our Habitas Ras Abrouq
Dukhan, Qatar

Highland Base
Kerlingarfjoll, Iceland

Snow Peak Long Beach Campfield
Long Beach Peninsula, Washington

Anantara Convento di Amalfi Grand Hotel
Amalfi, Italy

Belmond's Eastern & Oriental Express
Malaysia

Sinchi Wayra
Yasuní National Park, Ecuador

Boca de Agua
Bacalar, Mexico

Kantishna Roadhouse
Denali National Park, Alaska

Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui
Koh Samui, Thailand

Burhan Wilderness Camps
Bardiya, Nepal

Le Grand Mazarin
Paris

Silversands Beach House
St. George's, Grenada

Dunas de Formentera
Formentera, Spain

Dar Tantora The House Hotel
AlUla, Saudi Arabia

Cortina d'Ampezzo
the Dolomites, Italy

Havila Polaris and Havila Pollux
Norway

The Wayback
Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

Sangwa Camp
Haa Valley, Bhutan

The Manchester
Lexington, Ky.

Raffles London at the OWO
London

Under Canvas Lake Powell-Grand Staircase
Big Water, Utah

100 Princes Street
Edinburgh

Kwetu Nairobi
Nairobi

Höfe Trail
Osttirol, Austria

Natural Selection's Guided Cycling Safari
Okavango Delta, Botswana

Fontainebleau
Las Vegas

Mine + Farm Inn
Guerneville, Calif.

Casa Lucia
Buenos Aires

wukalina Walk
Tasmania, Australia

Melesin Distillery
Leskovik, Albania

Potlatch Club
the Bahamas

De Durgerdam
Durgerdam, the Netherlands

Royal Caribbean Icon of the Seas

Caiman House
Yupukari, Guyana

Communal Kutaisi
Kutaisi, Georgia

Warren Street Hotel
New York City

One Za'abeel
Dubai

Bowie House, Auberge Resorts Collection
Fort Worth

Mt Cook Lakeside Retreat
Lake Pukaki, New Zealand

Silvestre Nosara
Nosara, Costa Rica

Reverb by Hard Rock
Hamburg

World Equestrian Center
Ocala, Fla.

The Inn at Stonecliffe
Mackinac Island, Mich.

Omni Homestead Resort and Warm Springs Pools
Warm Springs, Va.
Places to Visit

Maui Cultural Lands
Lahaina, Hawaii

Kamba African Rainforest Experiences
Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of the Congo

Pearling Path
Muharraq, Bahrain

WA EV Network
Western Australia

Aviva Studios, home of Factory International
Manchester, England

Hassan Fathy's New Gourna Village
Luxor, Egypt

Moroccan Culinary Arts Museum
Marrakech, Morocco

Bab Al Salam Mosque
Muscat, Oman

Reethaus
Berlin

Ivomo Tea Cooperative
Gisakura, Rwanda

Bar Magritte
Brussels

Buffalo AKG
Buffalo, N.Y.

Yum Cha
Santiago, Chile

Saka Museum
Jimbaran, Indonesia

The Diyarbakir Express
Turkey

Iris
Hardangerfjord, Norway

Grootbos Florilegium
Gansbaai, South Africa

Dive Tutukaka
Tutukaka, New Zealand

CPKC Stadium
Kansas City, Mo.

VYN
Simrishamn, Sweden

Kunstsilo
Kristiansand, Norway

Sharaan Nature Reserve
Saudi Arabia

Manam Chocolate
Hyderabad, India

International African American Museum
Charleston, S.C.

Iberá Provincial Reserve
Corrientes province, Argentina

Zeyrek Cinili Hamam
Istanbul

Matterhorn Alpine Crossing
Switzerland and Italy

Air CCCC
Singapore

Baths of Caracalla
Rome

Magugu House
Johannesburg

Sanxingdui Museum
Guanghan, China

The Rabbit hOle
North Kansas City, Mo.

Naar
Himachal Pradesh, India

Ruta de los Abastos
O'Higgins region, Chile

Aranya
Beidaihe, China

Hornsgatan Slow Fashion District
Stockholm

Agua Caliente Cultural Plaza
Palm Springs, Calif.

Museum of Solutions
Mumbai

Olivia Foundation
Mexico City

Putep ‘t-awt
Cacouna, Quebec

teamLab Borderless: MORI Building Digital Art Museum
Tokyo

La Maison Rabelais
Amboise, France

EDP Art Reef
Albufeira, Portugal

Origem
Salvador, Brazil

CERN Science Gateway
Meyrin, Switzerland

Museum of Mountain Jews
Red Village, Azerbaijan

Montgomery Whitewater
Montgomery, Ala.

Via Transilvanica
Romania

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Sarasota, Fla.

Abrahamic Family House
Abu Dhabi

Tomorrow's Greatest Place
New Murabba
Project Credits
Project Editors: Emma Barker Bonomo and Ashlea Halpern
Audience: Samantha Cooney, Annabel Gutterman, Kitty Ruskin, Kari Sonde, and Meg Zukin
Designer: Chelsea Kardokus
Digital: Nadia Suleman
Editors: Merrill Fabry, Lily Rothman, and Karl Vick
Photo: Eli Cohen
Reporter-researchers: Harry Booth, Leslie Dickstein, Sanya Mansoor, Simmone Shah, Tharin Pillay, and Julia Zorthian
Video: Erica Solano