work hard, play hard. Vacationers and remote workers alike have plenty to gain from one of the latest categories unveiled in Airbnb’s Winter Release. Play plucks out properties with awesome leisure and recreational features, such as basketball courts, game rooms, climbing frames, miniature golf, and more right in the backyard. We’ve rounded up the most surprising Play Airbnbs around the globe that’ll make you want to stay home.

This year has been a mixed bag of good and bad moments, but photographers have found a way to unite the world with their images. Let's take a look back at all the sweet, sad, and surreal photos of 2022—everything that contributes to our human experience this year.

WHAT MADE A great song in 2022? Was it an irresistible beat and a sense of humor? An introspective, bittersweet dream? An absolute dance floor banger? Was it lo-fi, high-res, loud, soft, twangy, poppy, sleek, distorted, hugely anthemic, or perfectly tiny? The answer was yes — all that and more. Or maybe it was a song that imperiously declared any and all doubters to be a bunch of munches. You’ll have to listen to all 100 songs here to be sure.

In any given year, the exercise of assembling a definitive list of the best places to travel is both exciting and daunting. After all, we’re never short on inspiring places and experiences we hope to cross off. And so, every fall, when we convene to start the process of creating this list, we do so with great care, enlisting our extensively traveled network of writers from around the world—and for the first time this year, editors from other Condé Nast Traveler markets—to pitch, endorse, defend, and eventually align on the places we believe that you, as our readers, will most want to travel to over the next 12 months.

The 20 Longest-Lasting Cars You Can Buy

What are the longest-lasting vehicles on the road? A new study by iSeeCars.com provides the answer. The study examined vehicles sold for at least ten of the past 20 years. It defines a car's "potential lifespan" as the mileage threshold the top 1 percent of the vehicles examined met.

Year End Bourbon Investment Offerings

With 2022 nearly in the books, most bourbon investment offerings have already been sold. Fortunately for ELEVATOR readers, CaskX has set aside a select range of investments allowing you to get in before prices rise in 2023.

The case for buying less — and how to actually do it

This holiday season could be a scary time for some: Between inflation (prices have risen 8.2 percent in a year) and economic uncertainty pointing to a potential recession, in addition to ongoing pandemic recovery, it might not be the ideal moment to think about buying a bunch of crap.

The Floating Mountain: Japan's most remote ski destination

Buffeted by wild winds and blanketed in deep powdery snow throughout winter, the remote island of Rishiri off Japan's north-western tip is a self-powered skier's paradise.

Scientists Are Investigating Signs of Ancient Human Civilization Underwater

An underwater "Stonehenge" stretches for miles under a lake in Europe. "I think it was something with a cultic context," one researcher theorized.

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