Editors' choiceSwedish Lapland, Sweden
ICEHOTEL
The world's first ice hotel: every winter artists from around the world rebuild it from the ice of the Torne River.
Unusual cabins
Editors' choiceSwedish Lapland, Sweden
The world's first ice hotel: every winter artists from around the world rebuild it from the ice of the Torne River.
Unusual cabins

New York, USA
A hotel in the 1880s Villard Houses on Madison Avenue, opposite St Patrick's Cathedral.
Historic mansions

New York, USA
The legendary 1907 “château” hotel on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Park.
Historic mansions

Banff, Canada
The Canadian Pacific Railway's “château” hotel on the shore of turquoise Lake Louise in Banff National Park.
Castles & palaces

Around Paris, France
A hotel in a former 12th-century Cistercian abbey in the Rambouillet forest, 40 km from Paris. The ruins of a Gothic church stand right in the park.
Castles & palaces

Bangkok, Thailand
One of Thailand's first hotels (1876), on the banks of the Chao Phraya. The historic Authors’ Wing and river views.
Historic mansions

Istanbul, Turkey
An 1895 hotel built for Orient Express passengers in the Pera district — the oldest European-style hotel in Turkey.
Historic mansions

Moscow, Russia
Moscow's largest Art Nouveau hotel (1899–1905), with Vrubel's majolica panel “Princess of Dreams”.
Historic mansions

Saint Petersburg, Russia
A 1912 hotel on St Isaac's Square — a listed architectural monument of federal significance.
Historic mansions

Saint Petersburg, Russia
An 1875 hotel on the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and Mikhailovskaya Street with Art Nouveau interiors by Fyodor Lidval.
Historic mansions

French Riviera, France
An 1870 villa on Cap d'Antibes, a hotel since 1889. A pool carved into the rocks and the Eden Roc pavilion above the sea.
Villas with pools

Lake Como, Italy
A 1910 Art Nouveau hotel on the western shore of Lake Como — with a pool right above the water and a view of Bellagio.
Rooms with a view