Most of Finland is blanketed in a dense, wild forest, providing habitats for Europe's most diverse and magnificent species. The country has even been named the world’s best destination for wildlife travel by the Global Wildlife Travel Index.

Window prostitution has been practiced throughout the Netherlands since the end of the 19th century, but the city's recent ban on red-light tours is the first of its kind.

The residents of Berlin’s Kreuzberg district have become renowned for their impassioned clashes against capitalism. Now, they’ve stepped up to defend an unexpected establishment: the local branch of Aldi, a supermarket with a €50bn annual turnover.

First planted by French colonists, Lao coffee is brewing up a contemporary scene of third-wave cafés in Vientiane. Barbara Woolsey takes a sip of the Lao coffee culture and finds what’s good in the brew.

An ultimate experience guide that visually captures the top highlights of Thailand, as well as neighboring Cambodia and Laos. I authored the Bangkok, Around Bangkok, and Travel Smart chapters.

The new Bauhaus museum opens its doors to the public for the first time in the east German city of Weimar on Saturday after three years of construction, giving admirers of the world-famous “form follows function” aesthetic a new place of pilgrimage.

Thrillist's 2019 destination list, curated by contributors. My submissions: Boracay, Seoul, Leipzig, and Yala National Park in Sri Lanka.

Just seven years ago, the coastal country was on the cusp of a debilitating debt crisis – local businesses shuttered, young professionals fled. But a determined economic turnaround later, Portuguese shores are once again riding a wave of resurgence, from the capital Lisbon to the southernmost banks of the Algarve.

With hundreds of shopping and street food stands laid out in airy expanse, Greenway Night Market in Hat Yai outdoes other Thai markets. Barbara Woolsey navigates the ins and outs of this hip and happening commercial trading ground.

Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, has opened an exhibition of its hefty gold reserves after recalling half of its bullion from foreign vaults.

Iceland is Mother Nature’s favorite plaything. This little island nation dangling from the Arctic Circle, with its ethereal geothermal terrain, is always finding new ways to stun.

Despite talk of a hotel industry bubble, the low-cost Motel One is expanding. To compete with high-end hotels and home-sharing, it's investing in fashionable furnishings.

Knuckle down on a meaty sandwich at a Bavarian butcher, tuck into some late-night poutine in Montreal, ravage a bowl of northern Thailand's rich curry soup, brave a Þorramatur platter during Iceland’s "Ugly Food Festival," learn South African history by devouring a bowl of bunny chow, and try a rare Indian beef dish in Kerala.

It was a brutal winter day in South Iceland, but I wasn’t about to complain. We’d only barely made it to Hveragerði, about 25 miles east of Reykjavik, in a snowstorm.

Iceland's a wellspring of inspiration, from unearthly landscapes to female entrepreneurs, and Greece is where dancing grandmas and beautiful islands epitomize living your best life.

If you look at photos of Dubai in the 1960s, right before the petrodollars started flooding in, how different it appears now is dumbfounding. Ratchety abras delivering fish and pearls have been replaced with luxury yachts. Open-air souks have been ousted by air-conditioned mega-malls. Today, the city boasts driverless trains, and pretty soon, helicopter taxis.

In Munich, and the state of Bavaria, it’s not just brewing beer that’s an art form: so is consuming it. There’s an unspoken code of how to drink like a proud southern German: Always clutch your beer Maß, or litre mug, with just one hand. When you toast, make strong eye contact. And bring your own snacks – carrying outside treats into the beer garden is not just allowed, it’s polite.

If you’re a traveler, you can hardly escape a bucket list reference these days. (To pick but one example, Thrillist has used the phrase more than 100 times in headlines over the years. We even made you one in case you weren’t up to the task.) It’s edging toward cliché, yes, but bucket lists endure because they’re so pithy. If you’re really sitting down to articulate the places you want to go and things you want to do before you die, you’re a little macabre and a lot carpe diem.

New Year’s Eve celebrations in central Berlin will include a women’s safe zone for the first time, in the hope of preventing a repeat of mob attacks on female revellers during festivities in Cologne two years ago.

There’s a village in Bali where American expats cavort on scooters, surf swells, and beach verandas all year round. No, this isn’t the Eat, Pray, Love crowd -- these are Silicon Valley exiters, social media influencers, artists, and miscellaneous “woke” folk living their best lives, as seen on Instagram.