And, of course, there are plenty of castles, estates, and old manors to get your history fix.
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Lindsay Cohn,
Travel + Leisure,
13 June 2026
Blackwood, with her firsthand knowledge of drafty manors and unhinged families, explains with remorseless precision what lies behind the fantasy—what happens when the houses, and the people in them, are neither charismatic nor lovable.
While other plantations may serve as venues today, Whitney Plantation won’t let history be erased or shied away from.
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USA TODAY Network,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
Sri Lanka, off the southeastern coast of India, packs lush tea plantations, ancient Buddhist ruins, biodiversity and pristine beaches into one of the most affordable trips on this list — though its popularity is rising fast.
The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
While arched passageways reference those found in classic haciendas, the walls are hand-finished in quintessentially Mexican chukum plaster.
At their regular density levels in Australian farmlands, the researchers estimated that brown snakes alone might remove thousands of mice annually for every square kilometer of farmland.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
15 Mar. 2026
Doremus Avenue and the warehouses and tank farms and truck lots and junk yards along it are not far from the Passaic River.
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Ian Frazier,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
The transfer of the remaining beagles is expected to last until August, when there will be no more dogs at the farms, according to Big Dog Ranch Rescue.
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