Seaventures Dive Rig - A Diver’s Hideaway

There are places you visit and places that visit you back. Aura House, a hand-shaped bamboo structure curling along the edge of Bali's Ayung River gorge, belongs firmly in the second category. It was designed by IBUKU, the architecture collective founded by Elora Hardy - daughter of Canadian jewelry entrepreneur …

Somewhere in the Charente countryside of southwest France, on a 1,000-hectare (2,500-acre) estate of forests, lakes, and open pastureland, there is a tennis court floating on a pond. There is also a 13th-century castle tower where you can sleep beneath a glass ceiling and look up at the stone ribs …

Most resorts want you to stay on property. Hana-Maui Resort wants you to stay in a different way entirely - unhurried, untethered, and largely offline. Rooms here have no televisions, no alarm clocks, and in some cases no radios. The spa uses heated lava rocks and Hawaiian healing traditions that …

Wolves in the woods, art by Kengo Kuma, and a lake you can actually swim in. Oasyhotel sits inside 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres) of protected Apennine wilderness in Tuscany - Italy's first WWF-affiliated nature reserve - and it is doing something uniquely different with the place. Somewhere between Florence and …

Langkawi has no shortage of places to stay. There are clifftop resorts with infinity pools, beachfront villas with butler service, and boutique guesthouses tucked into the jungle. None of them look like a coconut. On the eastern edge of the island, in a sheltered cape called Tanjung Rhu where mangrove …

Bawah Reserve sits in a corner of the Anambas Archipelago so remote that the only way in is by seaplane, which lands directly in a turquoise lagoon. There are no televisions. WiFi is real but limited. There are no cars, no roads, and no reminders that the rest of the …

On a wild stretch of Benguerra Island, where sand dunes roll into the Indian Ocean and dugongs graze offshore seagrass meadows, Kisawa Sanctuary has built something unusual: luxury villas incorporating 3D printing technology, staffed largely by locals, and driven by a commitment to marine science. The 300-hectare property sits on …

In a city where every canal-side hotel room comes with a premium price tag, one of Amsterdam's most unusual places to rest your head sits 46 meters (150 feet) above the water on KNSM Island. What was once Figee Crane 2868 - a hulking piece of industrial machinery that spent …