Travel & Leisure lists the best hot chocolate in the USA. I can vouch for NYC's Jacques Torres' hot chocolate, especially the spicy Wicked version.

At camel races in Abu Dhabi, it’s a dusty chaos of men, camels, and SUVs. The grunting spectacle takes part on weekends throughout the emirate. In this gallery, take a peek into a race held near the Liwa oasis, southwest of the city of Abu Dhabi.

Operation Window Seat: LAX-LHR The super snowy edition! Amazing how crisply the patterns stand out in the snow... especially layered with fluffy clouds.

A photo essay of 20 overlooked national landmarks in the USA, including the Great Sand Dunes National Park, in CO.

Nhow Hotel in Berlin, designed by NPS Tchoban Voss.

Cool Children's Bookstore in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Piazza Sempione is a Made in Italy brand. The opened a new showroom in New York in the historic Fuller Building.

The Lonley Planet's Guide to the world's best festivals in January including Ati-Atihan, the week long street party in Kalibo, Philippines.

The University of Dundee’s satellite receiving station captured this image of how the heavy snow of the past week has affected the UK.

Queenstown-based luxury chauffeurs BlackZQN are a car-loving traveller's dream.

Matador describes three different ways to travel to Antarctica.

Plan your escape this weekend with a few inspirations from Notventures.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #8: Triple Aught Design has some amazing gear for you to win to keep you warm while looking good and ready for anything!

New series of modern city maps: Manhattan, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and DC!

Farm designed The Tree sculpture for the National Museum of Singapore. The Tree alludes to the banyan tree, and is a reconstruction of a series of interlocking frames with lights that pulsate gently in the night.

Travel & Leisure chronicles the best hotel Santas. From sky diving santas to a santa on a camel, these resorts kick off the holidays in style.

Hanging off of a cliff in Phuket is new boutique hotel, Villa Amanzi. The Villa has a front row ticket to the amazing Andaman Sea and provides privacy like no other can.

Neat airline bag collection featuring bags from all different airlines all around the world.

Golf may not be the most obvious reason to visit Tuscany, but these resorts and courses make it worth the effort to pack your clubs when traveling to the region.

Mazatlan, Mexico, looks like a beautiful vacation destination. Vagabondish puts together a budget vacation guide to Mexico’s "Pearl of the Pacific".

Emanuele Pizzolorusso's Crumpled City maps are the perfect solution for those of us that hate to fold maps - just crumple the map up and stuff it in its bag. Another bonus - it's waterproof!

Our Top Ten Airport Glamor Shots - just in time for the Holidays.

New place to be in Paris : OUR restaurant offers luxury turkish kebab.

The Fat Radish on NYC's Lower East Side.

A collection of photos of picturesque, romatic and practical covered bridges from around the world.

South African Art and Hospitality combine at the opening of One&Only Cape Town.

URBN hotel is china’s first carbon-neutral hotel. they used recycled and reclaimed local materials for its construction.One of the best example is the back wall of the main lobby decorated with a collection of old suitcases.

The Montpelier Chapter Hotel opens this week in Cheltenham, becoming another Cotswold escape. By Swire, who also opened Beijing's The Opposite House and Hong Kong's The Upper House.

Hate the holidays, escape to one of these top 5 desinations to avoid Christmas.

Outside Magazine explores the best of Mexico from Oaxaca to Copper Canyon including swimming with whale sharks in Isla Holbox.

Duck Confit and Grand Marnier Souffle at Chez Dumonet - Best meal I've had in Paris

Video from the world's largest aquarium in Atlanta. Directed by Stillmotion.

The 9 Hours Capsule Hotel in Kyoto, Japan. A hotel at its simplest - a sleeping hub to rejuvenate your body and mind. Designed by Fumie Shibata of Design Studio S.

Palm Court at the Langham Hotel in London is where cream tea or high tea was invented over 140 years ago and is still one of the best places in the world to go for it.

Tiny Plane Spotting! A new variation of our favorite Operation Window Seat? They are so amazingly small in a sea of clouds!

Style, sustenance and spice. Hassen hotpot in Taichung has it all.

Touring the Tigre Delta in Argentina with New York Times reporter, Michael T. Luongo.

Design*Sponge's city guide to Greenville, SC.

10 Places to Snowshoe in North America - Quieter than a snowmobile, more manageable than cross-country skis, snowshoes can take you off the trail and deeper into snow-covered wilderness.

Andrew Harper's Notable December Events include Christmas Markets like Nürnberg’s legendary Christkindlesmarkt.

For this temporary hotel, IAA Architects created a shelter where the occupants become a form of entertainment to passersby. The hotel is part of a temporary installation and envisioned as a piece of art.

The Hotel Relais Christine in Paris’ Latin quarter - gorgeous decor and an old fashioned "honesty bar", and sitting room which help create a lovely and timeless atmosphere felt through out the property.

4th Amendment Metallic ink-printed undershirts and underwear. Now there's a way to protest those intrusive TSA X-ray scanners without saying a word.

Meet Fred Finn - the world's most traveled man, who has visited 70% of the world's 196 nations. Fred has spent 52 years traveling the globe, during which he has covered 15 million miles - the equivalent of traveling to the moon and back 31 times.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1333289/Worlds-travelled-man-clocks-15-millions-miles.html#ixzz16jLHDbpU