Ambia Staley

From the Jeep Wrangler's removable doors and solid front axle to a Mazda MX-5 Miata whose manual gearbox rewards every corner

From Las Vegas's million-plus hotel rooms to San Diego's waterfront convention center and near-perfect year-round weather

From Luang Prabang's $50 hotel rooms and $1 street food to Panama City's canal locks and colonial quarter for under $130 a night

From Bologna's medieval lanes of mortadella and fresh pasta to a Rotterdam market hall whose ceiling is a giant mural of fruit and vegetables

From Iceland's geothermal Blue Lagoon in a lava field to a Japanese shrine that has been rebuilt in identical form every 20 years for 13 centuries

From a Whitehorse operator running aurora tours since 2001 to a fly-in-only Vuntut Gwitchin community at the top of the Yukon

From Florida's 72-degree spring-fed Ichetucknee to the Blackfoot River in Montana where Norman Maclean's memoir made the landscape famous

From St. Lucia's twin volcanic Pitons to Dominica's boiling volcanic lake deep in the most intact rainforest in the Caribbean

From Yakushima's 7,000-year-old cedar forests to a remote Pacific island reachable only by a 24-hour ferry from Tokyo

From Zermatt's car-free village beneath the Matterhorn to Lavaux's UNESCO vineyard terraces above Lake Geneva

From Rome's four essential pastas to Palermo's market stalls where spleen sandwiches reflect a thousand years of Arab and Norman influence

From Malta's English-speaking Mediterranean shores to Penang's UNESCO heritage city and ultra-low rents

From a $180-per-night Rhine cruise with Black Forest cake demos to an all-inclusive Mississippi sailing that departs from New Orleans' French Quarter

From the Grand Canyon's mile of open air to Acadia's lighthouse silhouetted against the Atlantic, the national parks with the best sunsets

From Crested Butte's July wildflower meadows to a Maine coastal town where advisors say lobster rolls are among the best they've had anywhere

From the Ioniq 5's retro-futurist pixelated silhouette to the Bronco's removable doors and deliberately old-fashioned proportions

From a Mazda CX-5 with near-luxury interior quality and standard AWD to a Subaru Forester Hybrid with the highest safety score on the list

From Tulum's Mayan ruins above Caribbean white sand to a car-free Yucatán island where flamingos wade in the surrounding lagoon

From a 2020 Nissan Armada with a near-perfect reliability score and 8,500-pound tow rating to a 2018 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid with the lowest cost to own

From a sunset sail on a classic West Indian sloop to a sunken Spanish galleon in a protected marine park, the best of Anguilla

From Maine lobster rolls steps from the Atlantic to New Mexico's green chile burger, America's most iconic regional dishes

From a restored Colorado ghost town with five natural hot springs to a Vermont property with a private ski hill and spirits included in the rate

From Venice's Grand Canal to the three sheer Dolomite rock towers that define the Alps at their most dramatic

From Praiano's uncrowded Amalfi cliffs to a St. John harbor where the live-aboard sailing community outnumbers the tourists