O Pioneers!

Hotels Heavy With the Spirit of the Old West

Ghost towns and campgrounds. Homesteads and hot springs. Silver Screen legends and Gold Rush settlements. These hotels have American Old West vibes and frontier spirit.

Rare Form

The Curious Case of the Restaurant Hotel

Hotel restaurants are commonplace. Restaurant hotels, however, are another thing entirely. They’re a total rarity. And rarer still: restaurants with hotels good enough to be in our selection.

Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes

Nature Adores a Freestanding Cubist Cabin Hotel

Nature abhors a vacuum, but it loves a picture window. These self-contained, geometric accommodations get you right up against the wilderness, putting the view above all else.

Hang In There

Clifftop Hotels of the Highest Quality

Sometimes you just want to see amazing hotels atop incredible cliffs, perched high above the water below. We’re happy to oblige.

In the House

The Best Boutique Hotels in Brooklyn

The number of great hotels in New York’s outer boroughs lags behind Manhattan by quite a bit. With recent openings like Ace Hotel Brooklyn, that could be changing.

Life Less Ordinary

It’s Not Unusual to Stay at Unusual Hotels

When we call a hotel “unusual” it’s our highest form of praise. It means there are no other hotels quite like it. It’s singular, and it stands above the status quo. That’s the kind of hotel we live for.