W Guangzhou - From The Future

Sea Containers London isn't trying to be your typical boutique hotel. Housed in what looks like an unremarkable 1970s office block on the South Bank, this 359-room property goes all-in on its transatlantic cruise liner theme, complete with copper-plated walls that curve like a vintage ship's hull and four new …

In the 1890s, this building on Robertson Quay was ground zero for Singapore's red-light district, a hub for opium dens, gambling houses, and Chinese secret societies who demanded 36 sacred oaths from new recruits. The street was known in Hokkien as "Chiu Long Lo" – Spirits Shed Street – after …

Forget the beaches – Thailand's landlocked Khao Yai National Park offers something the coast can't: a transparent rooftop pool where you swim seemingly suspended above forested peaks. Hotel MYS Khao Yai, a five-star property on Thanaratch Road, brings Scandinavian minimalism to the heart of the country's oldest national park, a …

Sitting on the edge of the Indian Ocean in Umhlanga, The Oyster Box is the kind of place where you can start your morning with unlimited oysters and sparkling wine at breakfast, spend your afternoon learning to make proper Durban curry, and end your evening with a cigar in a …

Somewhere in western Belize, a waterfall is tumbling into a turquoise pool that almost nobody sees. It isn't on a popular trail or a backpacker's bucket list. It's just sitting there, doing its thing, above the jungle canopy of the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve, which stretches across 107,000 acres …

There are places that make you question why you ever settled for ordinary vacations, and Capella Lodge on Lord Howe Island is one of them. This nine-suite retreat sits at the foot of two volcanic peaks that tower over the world's southernmost coral reef, on an island so pristine that …

Sleeping 250 meters above street level in a building shaped like a sailing ship requires a certain suspension of disbelief. Ascott Raffles City Chongqing sits within one of China's most ambitious architectural projects – a complex of eight towers connected by a 300-meter horizontal skybridge that locals call The Crystal. …

The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon occupies the lower floors of a 77-story tower that looks like it's being digitally deconstructed in real time. This 155-room property brings New York hotel swagger to Bangkok's Silom district, sitting 314 meters above street level in the King Power Mahanakhon – that glassy skyscraper with …

A 377-meter (1,237-foot) tower. An infinity pool on the 76th floor. Eight restaurants spread across 82 floors. Dubai's latest architectural statement has arrived, and it's already snatched several Guinness World Records in the process. Ciel Dubai Marina, Vignette Collection by IHG opened its doors this week as the world's tallest …

Towering over Riyadh's skyline, Al Faisaliah Tower is Saudi Arabia's first skyscraper. Part of the complex is a seven-story tower that today houses the five-star Mandarin Oriental Al Faisaliah, Riyadh. The 267-meter-tall (876 feet) tower was built in 2000, in those times when the country limited nonreligious tourism to a …