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Cairo is third world and first world, Islamic world and pharaonic world, a teeming city that jars all the senses, all at once. There are thousands...

SINCE a fire brought down the Fenice opera house 10 years ago, Venice has suffered from crumbling palazzos, rising tides and its worst publicity...

THE Democrats are back in power, which means Martha’s Vineyard is on the political radar again. The Kennedys have been coming since there were...

“I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five,” wrote Mark Twain in 1866. Whether it’s lazing on warm sugary sand or snorkeling with...

PHILADELPHIA’S evolution from day trip to destination city is such that you can spend a long weekend there without visiting any 18th-century...

WITH the quiet momentum of a work in progress, Cincinnati is finding an artsy swagger, infused with a casual combination of Midwest and Southern...

DOWNTOWN Seattle may have a Space Needle that pierces the clouds, a Monorail that whizzes above the streets and, most recently, the bloblike...

THE explanation about to be offered isn’t the conventional one, but it’s plausible: Rome is called the Eternal City because you would need an...

BALTIMORE is sometimes the forgotten middle child among attention-getting Eastern cities like Washington and New York. But a civic revival, which...

SAY Bali and most people think paradise. There are stunning sunsets, sculpted rice terraces and a temple on almost every corner. And for...

MAKE no mistake: visiting Montreal is not like going to Paris. True, the brooding facades and crooked streets of Old Montreal feel distinctly...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., may be tiny — its 90,000 residents could be seated in the Los Angeles Coliseum — but it packs Oprah-like cachet. Indeed,...

THOUGH New Yorkers were recently brought up short by the financial crisis, with no one quite knowing just how bad it would be, one thing this city...

FROM the mime in white makeup to the Chanel-clad grande dame walking her poodle, Paris practically sags under the tonnage of its stereotypes. The...

THE heat. The traffic. The crowds. That’s all anyone ever talks about when you say you’re going to Bangkok. All of it’s true, of course —...

WHAT other city, after being half-drowned and left to starve, foiled by bureaucracy and attacked by the auto-immune disease of rampant crime, could...

YOU name it, Dubai has it. Or if it doesn’t have it, it’s building it. Or if it’s not building it, it’s dredging up an island to put it on....

THERE are many different Londons, and they appeal to people with many different passions: museum lovers, theatergoers, opera buffs, devotees of...

THERE is new energy in Vienna’s imposing gorgeous streets. Where museum-worthy beauty may once have felt untouchable, there is a palpable sense...

THE shifting political landscape of the American West, where Democrats hope to make significant gains in several battleground states this fall,...

IN the golden days of rail travel, a sign proclaiming “Welcome to Birmingham, the Magic City” greeted passengers arriving at Terminal Station....

IN recent years, the once-gritty neighborhoods of Born, El Raval and Barceloneta have emerged as the new face of Barcelona — home to some of its...

AS one of the planet’s most diverse cities, Toronto is oddly clean and orderly. Sidewalks are spotless, trolleys run like clockwork, and the...