The Sapporo Snow Festival is one of Japan’s most spectacular winter events, drawing millions each February to see enormous snow and ice sculptures fill the city. Even outside festival time,

One of the great institutions of South Kensington’s “museum quarter,” the Science Museum is a thrilling celebration of human ingenuity — and, best of all, it’s free to enter. From

Before the shrines and the mountains, most visits to Nikko begin at the Shinkyo Bridge and the small town that gathers around the entrance to the sacred precinct. They set

If I could recommend just one walk to a first-time visitor, it would be this: the riverside path along the South Bank of the Thames. Flat, free, and lined with

One unfinished building blending sixteen faiths into a single rainbow of domes.

If you ask a local for one free thing every visitor should do in London, many will say the same: walk the South Bank. This wide, traffic-free promenade runs along

Few places pack as much drama into one site as the Tower of London. For nearly a thousand years this riverside fortress has been a royal palace, an armoury, a

Few places on earth pack as much drama into one set of stone walls as the Tower of London. For nearly a thousand years it has been a fortress, a

Often overshadowed by its neighbors, the Victoria and Albert Museum — the V&A to everyone who knows it — is quietly one of the most beautiful and fascinating museums in

The Victoria and Albert Museum — known to everyone simply as the V&A — is the world’s leading museum of art, design, and performance. Where the British Museum tells the