Where to Go Next: 15 Transformative Destinations for 2025

A museum two decades in the making finally reveals an ancient king’s complete treasure. An Arctic wilderness, previously requiring three flight connections, becomes reachable in a single hop from New York. A Mediterranean island of ruins and spice markets reinvents itself as a global food capital. The travel map is being redrawn in 2025—not by trends or marketing campaigns, but by concrete developments that fundamentally alter how we can experience places.

This isn’t about where’s “hot”...