All Trip Guides
Day Trip
New Canaan, CT
Celebrated modern architect Philip Johnson chose New Canaan as his weekend retreat and designed an iconic glass house here in 1947. The one-room...
Long Weekend
Grenada
Few Caribbean islands remain as undiscovered as Grenada, which last made headlines in 1983, when Ronald Reagan invaded the place to put down a Marxist military...
Day Trip
Governors Island
At just half-a-mile (800 yards, to be precise) from the towering skycrapers of Lower Manhattan, historic Governors Island is the city's nearest escape....
Day Trip
Beacon, NY
Dia:Beacon put Beacon, New York on the map when it opened here along a patch of Hudson River in 2003. The top-shelf art is ample reason to visit, but the town's...
Long Weekend
Toronto
Until recently, Toronto wasn't much to look at, but a host of new buildings by celebrity architects like Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, and Norman Foster...
Weekend
Milford, PA
You could just come to Milford, Pennsylvania for the legendary hotel in its midst. Indeed, the celebrated Hotel Fauchère is a bona fide destination of its own...
Weekend
New Haven, CT
Sure, New Haven has decent culinary and art scenes. But they're not the main draws of this Ivy League college town 80 miles from New York. Nope, it's the classics...
Day Trip
Staten Island
Wow. Staten Island has a serious Asian side. Nowhere else in the five boroughs will you find a traditional Chinese Scholar's Garden or monastic Tibetan...
Day Trip
Blue Hill at Stone Barns
The trailblazing Blue Hill at Stone Barns, located on a bucolic farm 30 miles outside of New York City, isn't easy to reach without car and driver. But since...
Weekend
North Fork, LI
Say what you will about New York wines, but there are some great rosés being made in North Fork these days. Long Island’s second wine appellation was created...
