Secluded Intown Treehouse - Coziness in the Forest

Down a narrow alley just behind the Shambles, easy to miss if you don't know it's there, Hocus Pocus Tiny Hotel is the kind of place that makes you wonder whether you've accidentally wandered into a film set. A Grade II listed medieval building with timber beams, creaking stairs, and …

Somewhere on a mountaintop above Lake George, tucked behind life-size lion statues and Gothic iron gates, sits a place that's hard to believe exists. Highlands Castle is the kind of property that sounds like a fever dream until you're standing on its terrace watching the light change over the Adirondacks, …

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 …

Someone actually did it. Quit the city, moved somewhere beautiful, and built something meaningful from scratch - and the result is one of those rare places that feels genuinely lived-in and loved rather than assembled by a hospitality consultant. Built into the rural eastern Algarve near the village of Cacela …

Sanctuary Treehouse Resort in Sevierville, Tennessee describes itself as the world's first interactive treehouse resort, which is one way to put it. Another is that someone built a 6-meter (20-foot) slide off the bedroom, installed a drink chute between floors so you never have to carry your own beverage up …

At The Mohicans Treehouse Resort in rural Ohio, a vintage Airstream hangs 7.5 meters (25 feet) in the air, Pete Nelson-designed cabins perch among century-old pines, and the entire place was built largely by Amish craftsmen using reclaimed barn wood. Deep in the forested hills of Knox County, an hour …

You're watching pelicans glide in formation over the Pacific, listening to a conversation at the long communal table spiral from Mexican food politics to astrology, nursing something cold from the bar - and you haven't looked at your phone in three hours. The Wi-Fi password is "disconnecttoreconnect" for a reason. …