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J. Adam Huggins for The New York Times Gandhi’s room is sparely furnished, nearly as he left it. By MATT GROSS MUMBAI didn't give me a headache, but it sure didn't help. My skull was already throbbing when I arrived in the city once known as Bombay, but as I strolled around Colaba,…

Denis Doyle for The New York Times The Guggenheim Bilbao along the banks of the Nervión River. The river was once polluted by industrial waste. By DENNY LEE A LIGHT patter bounced off the titanium fish scales of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao as a tour bus pulled up beside…

Pavel Horejsi for The New York Times La Degustation, a Prague restaurant that only serves seven-course tasting menus, with no à la carte. By EVAN RAIL IT'S never been terribly hard to convince travelers of Prague's appeal, at least not when it comes to its architecture, music and…

Jeff Topping for The New York Times The view from the Sky Suite, available to visitors. By CHRIS COLIN I'D stopped to use the bathroom at the McDonald's three miles from Arcosanti, the famously never-finished experimental city in the Arizona desert. This is cactus country, an arid hour…

Lalo de Almeida for The New York Times Anavilhanas Jungle Lodge, on the Rio Negro, opened in February. By LARRY ROHTER WE were in a canoe tethered to a submerged tree, fishing for piranha in the dark waters of the Rio Negro, about 125 miles northwest of the Brazilian city of Manaus. It…

Yoray Liberman for The New York Times Hot-air balloons float above the hills and rock formations of Cappadocia. By GISELA WILLIAMS “WATCH your head,” warned my guide, Edip, as we ducked into a stone cave in the otherworldly Turkish region of Cappadocia. The…

Udo Kröner/lufthansa Munich Airport, with its single terminal, is known for efficiency and short layovers for transfers. By DAVID KAUFMAN Correction Appended AS a former American Ambassador to Morocco and now an international business consultant focused primarily on Eastern European…

By GREGORY DICUM THE wine bar is a simple idea, yet it can be fraught. A wall of unfamiliar labels, obscure descriptions and extravagantly wine-schooled patrons can evoke a nagging vertigo. But in San Francisco, a city known for both its casual culture and obsession with quality food…

Jorge Colombo By STUART EMMRICH FOR the last few years, Queen Street West has been the epicenter of Toronto cool — with its trendy restaurants, night-crawling club kids and boutique clothing shops featuring the work of local designers. But now the action seems to be shifting a…

Andreas Solaro/Agence France-Presse — Getty images A 2004 Notte Bianca event at the Colosseum in Rome. By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO WHEN Paris held its first Nuit Blanche — a frenetic all-night, multivenue cultural bash — in 2002, few could have imagined that five…

Matt Gross for The New York Times Ride board, La Farge, Wis. By MATT GROSS NOTHING but sagebrush for 130 miles,” said the construction worker in the orange vest who was temporarily blocking U.S. Highway 20 in eastern Oregon. As my Volvo idled in the midday heat, I looked past…

Susana Raab for The New York Times At Rustico, the challenge is to match the right dishes with the right beers and ales from the restaurant’s selection of 310. By SUNSHINE FLINT ALEXANDRIA, VA., is only 10 minutes by car from downtown Washington, but the two restaurant scenes once…

Stefano Buonamici for The New York Times At Fundació Joan Miró, a show of works by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. By GREGORY DICUM IT was a cool spring day at the foot of La Rambla, Barcelona's famous — and famously overrun — main promenade. I had been…