Extraordinary places, quietly curated.

A quietly radical tasting menu that changed how Paris eats.

Tokyo's oldest temple, reached through a lantern-hung market street.

A green corridor of towering bamboo that hums in the wind.

Five thousand years of art along the edge of Central Park.

The warm, flower-filled benchmark for American dining.

A power station turned free temple to modern art.

Whitewashed walls, bone marrow on toast, nose-to-tail cooking.

A salumeria where the tables sit between the cheese counters.

A long marble counter, white-jacketed waiters, faultless tapas.

Cobalt-blue walls, cactus beds and Yves Saint Laurent's ashes.

Turquoise-tiled meyhane doing meze and rakı properly.

828 metres of tower, and the desert laid flat beneath it.

The Casa Azul, left much as Kahlo lived in it.

White Deco façade facing the most famous beach in Brazil.

Africa's largest contemporary art museum, carved out of grain tubes.

Warm, sheltered coves shared with a colony of African penguins.

Victorian manor turned candlelit dining room with a lantern-lit garden.

Three floors of speakeasy: boxing-club décor, deep sofas, long drinks.

Basement jazz club with small plates and a house band that swings.

A former prison that now houses the Constitutional Court.

Colonial-era hotel beside the red-and-white lighthouse.