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The Wetterhorn rises 3,692 m over Grindelwald. Alfred Wills climbed it in 1854, and historians often mark that summit as the start of mountaineering's golden age. Down in the valley, spring still runs on dandelions and fruit blossom.

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Descanso in Palm Springs serves breakfast and a poolside lunch at no extra charge, and the pool stays open around the clock. Your only job is deciding when to get out of the water.

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The toughest decision of the day was pool or ocean. They picked the one with bar service and kept the other as the view.

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Those orange trees are larches, the rare conifers that turn gold and drop their needles every fall. Behind them, the Matterhorn rises 14,692 feet. Edward Whymper's party first reached the summit in 1865, and four of the seven climbers died on the way down.

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Chillon Castle has guarded this stretch of Lake Geneva since at least 1150. Lord Byron toured the dungeon in 1816, wrote a poem about the prisoner chained there for six years, and his name is still carved into a pillar. Go in late October for these colors.

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Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal. Its architect, James O'Donnell, was an Irish Protestant from New York. He converted to Catholicism before his death in 1830 and is the only person buried in the crypt. The 1891 Casavant organ has about 7,000 pipes.
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Hilltop villa days in the Caribbean. The open-beam ceilings, shutters, and arched doorways do real work here: they pull the trade winds through the house so the fans barely have to. Pool out front, sea past the hedge, and one small white dog running the courtyard
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A visit to The Langham Huntington in Pasadena. It opened in 1907 as the Hotel Wentworth and closed after one season. Henry Huntington bought it and reopened it in 1914. The main building was rebuilt from the ground up and reopened in 1991.
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St. Moritz parks a concours on a frozen lake. The International Concours of Elegance puts vintage racers and new AMGs on the ice at 5,800 feet, with fondue and a fire waiting indoors. Winter tourism reportedly started here in 1864.
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This is Switzerland, but you order your coffee in Italian here. Lavertezzo sits in the Verzasca Valley in Ticino, and the river owes that green color to water so clear that divers travel here for it.

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Capri from above. Yachts crowding the water off Marina Grande, cliffside hotels with pools carved into the hill, and the Sorrento Peninsula across the bay. That water really is that blue.

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October in Paris. Monet's Water Lilies at the Orangerie, the Eiffel Tower lost in fog from Trocadéro, people reading outside a café, and the red awnings of the Plaza Athénée lit up at night. It's October 1st. Good timing.

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A red brick gatehouse with a pointed stone arch, and orange leaves overhead and all over the path leading up to it. October started today, and this is what I want the whole month to look like. Pasadena will give me 85 degrees and palm trees instead.

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Teak deck, brass winches, a carved cockpit table, and a wooden wheel, all tied up to a stone quay. Somebody spends a lot of weekends varnishing this boat. I'd happily just sit in that cockpit and never leave the dock.

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Clear water, dry hills, and blue skies. Summer in the Aegean doesn't need much explaining.

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Clear water, dry hills, a yacht parked offshore, and blue Speedos. Summer in the Aegean doesn't need much explaining.

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Saguaros, agave, and a trail of red rock under a half moon. The last light hits the peaks while the desert floor goes cool and blue. The Sonoran Desert does evenings better than anywhere.

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