There's something deliciously subversive about loving Canberra. Australia's purpose-built capital often gets dismissed as merely a political machine, a city of roundabouts and civil servants. But as s...
Cities, like manuscripts, reveal their true character between the lines—in the margins and footnotes that casual readers often miss. Charlotte, North Carolina, known primarily as a banking powerhouse,...
I've spent decades exploring post-industrial cities across North America, watching them transform and reinvent themselves. Minneapolis—often overshadowed by its mammoth Mall of America—has quietly bec...
Like a forgotten manuscript rediscovered on a dusty shelf, South Bend, Indiana has undergone a remarkable revision in recent years. Standing on the banks of the St. Joseph River last weekend, watching...
The taxi winds up steep switchbacks as Medellín reveals itself in the valley below, a sprawling metropolis nestled within the emerald embrace of the Andes. Twenty years ago, my editorial desk at Natio...
The wind whispers stories here. That's the first thing you notice about Wellington—how the gusts from Cook Strait sweep through the harbor city, carrying salt and secrets between its compact hills and...
The taxi driver's eyebrows arched in surprise when I told him my destination. 'Las Piedras? Not Punta del Este? Not Colonia?' His reaction confirmed what I already suspected – I was venturing beyond t...
The first time I encountered Austin's street art, I felt that familiar rush of discovery—the same sensation I used to get when finding a perfect manuscript hidden in a slush pile. Standing before a ma...
The moment you step into Old Delhi's maze-like streets, time becomes a fluid concept. Centuries-old monuments stand shoulder to shoulder with electrical repair shops, while the air carries the competi...
Standing on the edge of Tammerkoski rapids, I watch the autumn light cast long shadows across the imposing red-brick facades that once housed Finland's industrial revolution. The water that once power...
Standing before a three-story mural depicting a masked gunman, I felt the weight of Belfast's troubled history pressing against my chest like a heavy manuscript. Just minutes later, around a corner in...
The first thing that strikes you in Valparaíso isn't the Pacific Ocean stretching endlessly westward, though that view alone would merit the journey. It's the riot of color cascading down the city's 4...
The Athens that captured my heart wasn't the one in guidebooks. While the Parthenon stands eternal against that impossibly blue Aegean sky, it's in the narrow alleyways and graffiti-adorned walls of n...
The first time I wandered Mumbai's streets after sunset, I felt as though I'd stepped into an entirely different city than the one I'd been exploring just hours before. As darkness falls, Mumbai trans...
The escalator descends and I'm suddenly awash in electric blue light. Cave-like rock formations loom overhead, painted in an otherworldly azure that feels both primordial and futuristic. I've edited c...