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From Waterfront Resorts to Historic Inns, Here at the Finest Hotels in Istanbul, Turkey

From charming, centuries-old guesthouses to world-class waterfront resorts with every imaginable luxury, the best hotels in Istanbul run the gamut.
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The World’s Best Halloween Festivals Worth Traveling For

The world's best Halloween festivals feature plenty of lewd behavior, outlandish costumes, lavish parades, and, of course, lots and lots of alcohol.
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Trek with Mountain Gorillas at Rwanda’s Otherworldly Bisate Lodge

World-famous mountain gorilla trekking aside, Rwanda's luxurious new Bisate Lodge is an incredible and worthy destination in its own right.
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Where to Find the World’s Most Stunning and Unique Vacation Rentals

Boutique-Homes.com eliminates the headache of searching for a getaway by listing only the world's most beautiful and unique vacation rentals.
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Elon Musk: We Will Travel “Anywhere on Earth in Under an Hour” with the BFR

Imagine traveling from Manhattan to Shanghai in just 40 minutes. This futuristic proposition may become reality with SpaceX's BFR.
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New TSA Screening Means Airport Security Hell is About to Get Worse

The TSA is further clamping down at airport checkpoints in the U.S. Here’s everything you need to know about the new TSA screening.
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4 Best Destinations to See Fall Foliage (that aren’t New England)

Whether skydiving, gliding, hiking, or just plain road-tripping, here are our favorite places to “leaf-peep” (yeah, we said it) the fall foliage this season
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3 Stark Minimalist Hotels for Nature-Lovers in Scandinavia

These minimalist hotels in Norway and Sweden feature clean lines, simple design, and thoughtful architecture to bring the outside nature indoors.
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Google Pixel Buds Will Offer Real-time Translation of 40 Languages

Many have tried, none have succeeded. The groundbreaking Google Pixel Buds will offer game-changing technology for travelers: instant language translation.
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United Airlines is Retiring its Last Boeing 747 in Retro Style

To honor the swansong of its last in-service Boeing 747, United Airlines is recreating the original aircraft’s maiden 1972 flight.
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Ireland’s Spike Island Prison is the Alcatraz of Europe

The dark history of Spike Island prison fuels visitors’ morbid curiosity, and it’s now one of the most visited and most fascinating tourist sites in Europe.
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Zippelin is an Inflatable Travel Bag Made from Seat Belts and Tarps

Freitag's Zippelin is an inflatable, rolling travel bag designed to be rugged, water-repellent, and easily stored. All you need is a standard bicycle pump.
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3 Luxury Hotel and Car Packages to Consider for Your Next Trip

These three hotel and car packages offer the best of both worlds for car-loving travelers: world-class lodging and a beautiful set of wheels.
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World’s Largest Cocktail Festival Opens in London this Week

London Cocktail Week kicked off this week for the eighth year in a row, and more than 30,000 are expected to attend. Here's why you should too.
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Rustic Luxury: 3 Best Hotels in South Lake Tahoe, California

In an area long known for its garish motels and charmless resorts, these three hotels in South Lake Tahoe offer surprisingly rustic chic alternatives.
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Miami is Transforming its Metrorail into The Underline Urban Park

Miami's The Underline urban park will transform a 10-mile underused strip of its overground Metrorail into a beautiful, trail-crossed oasis.
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Get Lost ‘Man vs. Wild’-style with the Ultimate Black Tomato Travel Experience

Black Tomato travel company's Get Lost experience is about getting lost — literally, philosophically, and completely — and finding yourself.
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Are You a Travel Addict? According to Science, It’s a Very Real Phenomenon

Some people take travel to the extreme, becoming what psychologists have coined dromomaniacs. In layman’s terms: They are travel addicts
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Calling All Replicants: A ‘Blade Runner’ Bar Just Popped Up in Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne’s Cinema Nova just opened Bar 2049, a one-off conversion of its Nova Bar & Kitchen into a fully immersive 'Blade Runner' bar.
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The Winnebago Revel is a Beast of an RV that can Off-Road Anywhere

Looking to get seriously off-road without the inconvenience of towing a separate trailer? Look no further than the new Winnebago Revel RV.
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3 Luxury Sailing Vacations to Go On Before You Die

Travelers adventurous enough to sail around a country are afforded a view few others will experience — which is what makes sailing vacations so desirable.
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Berlin Opens World’s Largest Street Art Museum (and It’s Free)

World-renowned for recognizing the value of its local underground arts & culture community, Berlin has just opened the world’s largest street art museum.
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Glamping in Australia: 3 Luxe Spots that are Totally Off the Grid

Nothing says "glamping" like glamping in Australia. These luxe campsites are among the coolest — and most remote — in the world.
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All Aboard the World’s Best Dinner Trains

Dinner trains are destinations in their own right, providing top-tier dining and high quality wine in some truly memorable places.
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This Modular Surfboard Will Change the Way Surfers Travel

Renowned designer Thomas Meyerhoffer is making waves with his 2PRT modular surfboard, the most travel-friendly concept we've ever seen.
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Eliminate the Hassle of Packing with Dufl’s ‘Virtual Closet’ Valet Service

Dufl handles the packing, unpacking, cleaning, and storing of your clothes and essentials so you can travel bag-free. You read that right: no more luggage.
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San Diego’s Nomad Donuts Serves Up Crazy Flavors by a Michelin-Starred Chef

Michelin-starred chef Kristianna Zabala is the culinary genius behind the ever-rotating menu of gourmet creations at Nomad Donuts in San Diego, California.
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3 Best Hotels for a Unique Getaway to Zihuatanejo, Mexico

Zihuatanejo, Mexico — a small town that deftly balances the needs of tourists with an authentic feel — is home to beautiful boutique hotels.
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Netflix Has a Request for Chicago’s ‘Stranger Things’ Pop-up Bar

Chicago's Emporium Arcade Bar is paying homage to The Upside Down in the most 2017 way possible: by hosting a 'Stranger Things' pop-up bar.
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3 Adventurous Ways to Watch the Leaves Turn in New England This Fall

Watch the leaves turn in New England this fall by checking out one of these three stunning and surprisingly adventurous fall foliage tours.
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From Knives to Battle Axes, You Can Purchase the Best TSA-Confiscated Items

It may surprise you to learn that most TSA-confiscated items wind up on the auction block. You can bid on the weirdest wares, from knives to battle axes.
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Got an Extra $260 Million? Most of Hawaii’s Molokai Island Could Be Yours.

Molokai Ranch, a pristine, 55,000-acre property on Molokai Island in Hawaii, is on sale with Sotheby’s International Realty for $260 million.
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Camp (or Ride Out the Apocalypse) in this Self-Sufficient Camper

Go anywhere with Green Cat Technologies' one-of-a-kind sCarabane, which is not only beautiful, but designed to be an almost entirely self-sufficient camper.
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Man Sets New Speed Record for Hiking the Appalachian Trail in Just 45 Days

Hiking from Georgia to Maine typically requires six months. Joe McConaughy did it in just 45 days, setting a new Appalachian Trail record.
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West Coast Wild: Three Unique, Remote Hikes in California

There are plenty of great spots to disappear far off-grid across the Golden State, but these are three of the best remote hikes in California.
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Mingan Archipelago is the Most Beautiful Canadian Park You’ve Never Heard of

Now is the perfect time to plan a solo-camping trip to one of Canada's truly unique places: Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve.
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World’s Most Remote Pop-up Shop Opens 300 Feet Up a Colorado Cliffside

Perched high on Eldorado Canyon’s infamous Bastille, the Cliffside Shop, the world's most remote pop-up shop, could only be reached by experienced climbers.
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Canada Officially Completes the World’s Longest Continuous Trail System, The Great Trail

The Great Trail stretches 15,000 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean across 13 provinces and territories in Canada.
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Germaphobes, Rejoice! This Airport Just Deployed Self-Cleaning Security Bins

Ohio's Akron-Canton Airport is doing their part to keep travelers healthy in a surprisingly clever way: with self-cleaning security bins at checkpoints.
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Bucket List Dining: Where to Find the World’s Most Dangerous Foods

Adventurous foodies are willing to travel to discover the biggest, best, priciest, or scariest dishes. Here are the world's most dangerous foods.
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Tour New England’s Fall Foliage in Amtrak’s Vintage Panoramic Dome Car

Amtrak's Dome Car adds a healthy dose of retro “leaf-peeping” to this year’s foliage season, and rail passengers can get in on the action for free.
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Sanctifly App: Get Members-Only Access to Airport Hotel Facilities Around the World

The Sanctifly mobile app provides access to all the exercise tools you need at your disposal no matter where in the world you happen to be.
Airbnb Experiences

Airbnb is Now Booking One-of-a-Kind, Immersive Cultural Travel with Airbnb Experiences

Airbnb is expanding beyond their iconic hosting service with Airbnb Experiences — a peer-to-peer network for booking bucket-list-worthy travel experiences.
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Mile High Lodging: 3 Best Unique Hotels in Denver

Assuming you already have a trip planned to Colorado’s capital city, the only question is: where to stay? Here are the best hotels in Denver.
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3 Stunning Island Destinations You’ve Never Heard of (But Need to Escape to Right Now)

Even in this modern age, there are plenty of largely undiscovered, relatively tourist-free island destinations you've never heard of left to explore.
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Livingstone 24: The 1930s-Style Gentleman’s Yacht Full of Modern Technology

The Livingstone Series blends 21st-century innovation with classic Dutch minimalist design to create the perfect gentleman’s yacht, the Livingstone 24.
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NYC’s Oscar Wilde Bar Celebrates the Author’s Larger-than-Life Exploits

True to the author’s larger-than-life exploits which oft included thumbing his nose at the conventional, NYC's Oscar Wilde bar is anything but boring.
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Rooms with a View: The 4 Most Stunning Hotel Room Views in the World

From Tanzania to Patagonia to the islands of the Maldives, these hotels offer the most amazing, one-of-a-kind hotel room views in the world.
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World Record Triple-Inversion Spinning Roller Coaster Coming to the Ozarks

The Time Traveler roller coaster twists, turns, drops, and rolls all while each car simultaneously spins 360 degrees on adjustable magnetic motors
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The Future is Now: Five Travel Innovations Poised to Revolutionize the Way Rove

The seemingly futuristic technology for these incredible travel innovations already exists, and will soon redefine the way we wander.