Go somewhere that changes your plans.

The sights worth booking ahead, the hotels worth the money, and the free things locals do, in every city we cover.

cities & parks: 688; cities & parks
countries: 128; countries
things to do: 16,558; things to do
hand-picked hotels: 7,424; hand-picked hotels

Inspiration

What are you in the mood for?

Three days, one great city: the sights you came for, plus the neighbourhoods locals actually use.

Rome

Colosseum, Roman Forum & Palatine Hill

The amphitheatre that defined Rome, plus the Forum where the empire did business and the Palatine where emperors lived — all on one named, time-slotted ticket.

London

Tower of London

Nearly a thousand years of fortress, palace and prison on the Thames — the White Tower, Traitors' Gate, the ravens, Yeoman Warder tours, and the Crown Jewels glittering in the Jewel House.

Copenhagen

Copenhagen Canal Tour

An hour on the water from Nyhavn or Ved Stranden — under low bridges through Christianshavn, past the Opera House, Amalienborg and the Little Mermaid, with a live guide.

Lisbon

Tram 28 and the Lisboa Card

The yellow vintage tram that rattles up Lisbon's steepest lanes through Graça, Alfama, the Baixa, Chiado and Estrela — the city's most famous ride.

Destinations

Cities worth the flight

All 688 destinations

Rome

43 things to do · 23 hotels

London

43 things to do · 23 hotels

Tokyo

43 things to do · 22 hotels

Paris

38 things to do · 15 hotels

Barcelona

43 things to do · 23 hotels

Kyoto

42 things to do · 23 hotels

New Orleans

44 things to do · 17 hotels

When to go

Where to go in November

Vienna

Christmas markets open mid-month.

Budapest

Thermal baths in crisp weather.

Kyoto

Autumn leaves peak in the second half of the month.

Sells out first

Book-ahead favourites

All things to do

Rome

Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel

Seven kilometres of papal collections ending under Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling and Last Judgment — plus the Raphael Rooms, the Gallery of Maps and the Laocoön.

Paris

Eiffel Tower

The symbol of Paris — Gustave Eiffel's 1889 iron tower soaring over the city, with three visitor levels, a glass floor, restaurants, and a summit view that's the definitive Paris experience.

London

Tower of London

Nearly a thousand years of fortress, palace and prison on the Thames — the White Tower, Traitors' Gate, the ravens, Yeoman Warder tours, and the Crown Jewels glittering in the Jewel House.

Barcelona

Gaudí's unfinished basilica, crowned in 2026 by the 172.5-metre Tower of Jesus Christ — a stone forest of tree-like columns flooded with stained-glass colour, two carved façades a century apart, and the single ticket in Barcelona that sells out first.