Created by fashion designer Silvia Tcherassi, this hotel is as exquisite as her bridal collections. With just seven unique rooms (including one three-level suite with a private pool!), the Nacar Hotel is set in a 250-year-old colonial mansion in Colombia’s Cartagena and offers guests a chance to stay in one …

This grand building was built in 1886 as a women’s hospital. It was administered by a charity that cared for the poor and vulnerable women in society because there was no welfare state in those days. During the Second World War, the property was occupied and later used to house …

Built in 1724 during the Baroque period of European art, this historic townhouse is decorated in ostentatious red and gold, thick gilded plaster, and heavy marbling. It has been well cared for in the intervening centuries and was last renovated in the 1990s. It is part of a string of …