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So you think you’re a concert aficionado? If you’ve done intimate gigs or famous festivals and want to elevate your music experience to new heights, consider heading to a concert at some of the world’s most beautiful venues. Underground, above ground, and even one that’s in a gladiatorial arena, you’ll never experience live music in venues quite like these. So whether you’re into headbanging to heavy metal or prefer a gentle night of classical music, these spectacular venues are sure to rock your world. RECOMMENDED:🕌 The world’s most beautiful buildings🌆 The world’s best cities🎥 The world’s most beautiful outdoor cinemas India-Jayne Trainor is a British-Australian travel writer based in London. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines and check out our latest travel guides written by local experts.  This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines. 

Gig-tripping (that is, planning your holiday around a – you guessed it – gig) is not exactly a new phenomenon, but is instead proving to be a continuing trend of how we plan our holidays. Not only does planning a break around an event like seeing your favourite band instill the motivation you need to actually book, but it might well take you to cool, weird, and underrated places that you won’t have otherwise considered visiting.  In a brand new report published by travel search engine KAYAK, it seems that 44 percent of Gen Z plan on travelling for a music event this year. With that in mind, Time Out has compiled a list of all the most anticipated gigs, tours, and music events taking place across the world in 2026, which you most definitely should be travelling for.  RECOMMENDED:⚽ The biggest sport events worth travelling for in 2026🏜️ Time Out editors on where you should travel in 2026🌍 The best new things to do in the world this year Liv Kelly is Time Out’s travel writer. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines. This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines.

Last year, 1.1 billion tourists ventured abroad between January to September, with numbers up 5 percent on the same nine-month period in 2024. This year, more people are expected to travel internationally than ever before – despite the widely documented and crippling effects of overtourism in popular destinations, such as Madrid, Canary Islands and Mexico City.Yet, research shows travellers are conscious about the impacts of tourism. In Booking.com’s Travel and Sustainability 2025 report, 84 percent of people surveyed said sustainability was an important consideration when planning holidays, while 73 percent wanted their spending to benefit communities. READ MORE: Can popular European cities ever recover from overtourism?Choosing to visit lesser-known regions diverts demand away from places that are already overburdened and enables countries that need more visitors to grow their tourism industries. ‘When visitors arrive with curiosity and respect, in manageable numbers, they can help local economies thrive while also experiencing cultures and landscapes that aren't overcrowded,’ explains Sam Bruce, co-founder of Much Better Adventures, an operator that prides itself in environmentally and community-conscious travel. ‘These places offer a rarer kind of adventure – you get an authentic experience… without the tourist traps, and the impact of your presence still genuinely matters.’So, as you plan your 2026 travels, consider these incredible, lesser-visited countries –...

Updated for 2026: Whatever you think of Netflix’s theatrical strategy, it continues to produce some of television’s most formally daring works, including Adolescence, a hard-to-watch but impossible to ignore limited series about an unimaginable crime. On the other end of the spectrum, there’s HBO’s hilariously profane The Righteous Gemstones, which stuck the landing in 2025 with its final season. In addition, we have moved Andor into the top 20 after its astounding second and final season.  Television used to be considered one of the lowest forms of entertainment. It was derided as ‘the idiot box’ and ‘the boob tube’. Edward R Murrow referred to it as ‘the opiate of the masses’, and the phrase ‘I don’t even own a TV’ was considered a major bragging right.  A lot has changed. Television is now the dominant medium in basically all of entertainment. The shift in perception is widely credited to the arrival of The Sopranos, which completely reinvented the notion of what a TV show could do. But that doesn’t mean everything that came before is primordial slurry. While this list of the greatest TV shows ever is dominated by 21st century programs, from The Wire to Succession to Adolescence, there are many shows that deserve credit for laying the groundwork for this current golden age.  Chiseling them down to a neat top 100 is difficult, so we elected to leave off talk shows, variety shows and sketch comedy, focusing on scripted, episodic dramas, comedies and miniseries. So don’t...

War is hell but it does make for some great movies. There are few real-world events that present such natural conduits for drama, suspense, horror and heroism, and filmmakers have taken advantage from nearly the beginning of cinema: Lewis Milestone’s adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front won one of the first Oscars for Best Picture, in 1930. More recently, Alex Garland plunged us into the maelstrom of Iraq with Warfare. The best war movies aren’t just historical reenactments, though. They use combat as the basis for exploring a slew of existential questions. Why do we fight? Why do people enlist? What happens afterwards? Is war ever justified? Rarely is there a clear answer, but simply broaching those subjects can produce compelling cinema. For this list, we’ve compiled films that span the historical and fictional gamut, from both world wars, to Vietnam, to the so-called ‘War on Terror’, to imaginary interplanetary conflict. It’s impossible to really convey the horror of war if you haven’t been there – done right, though, movies can provide some small window into what those who’ve fought have seen, experienced and felt. These 50 films come closest. Written by David Fear, Keith Uhlich, Joshua Rothkopf, Andy Kryza, Phil de Semlyen and Matthew Singer Recommended: 🎖️ The best World War I movies💥 The 50 best World War II movies🪖 The 20 best Vietnam War movies – as ranked by a military historian🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time

Now that the festive season is well and truly over, we can’t be the only ones who have stopped and suddenly felt the urge to type ‘symptoms of vitamin D deficiency’ into Google. There are a good couple of months of dark evenings and chilly temperatures ahead for those residing in the northern hemisphere, after all, so why not beat the January blues and look over your options for some sun? Plenty of places bask in warmer temperatures at this time of year. But rather than fight for beach space in Tenerife, why not think outside the box? From a black sand beach town in Madeira to an off-grid Brazilian island, these are some of our favourite beyond-the-obvious destinations for a hit of winter sun, all with temperatures above the mid-teens (Celsius, obvs).  RECOMMENDED:🏰 The most underrated travel destinations in the world🗺️ Time Out editors on where you should travel in 2026🌍 The best new things to do in the world this yearLiv Kelly is Time Out’s travel writer. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines. This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines.

Let’s clear this up right away: no, ‘family comedy’ is not code for ‘kids movie’. At least, it doesn’t have to be. Sure, some movies described as ‘fun for the whole family’ are really just fun for the youngest ones in the household. But as these 37 films attest, it is possible for a movie to make every generation laugh in unison.  Each of the following hits just the right notes to send everyone on the couch into hysterics without making parents sweat over explaining the meaning of a few choice words, situations and possibly body parts to the littlest members of the audience. Next time the whole brood is corralled in front of the television, throw on one of these classics, and a good time is guaranteed. After all, the family that laughs together, stays together. Written by Hannah Doolin, Danielle Valente, Alim Kheraj, Oliver Strand, Andy Kryza & Matthew Singer Recommended: 👪 The 50 best family movies to stream on movie night👶 The best family movies on Netflix for all-ages🤣 The 100 best comedy movies✍ The 100 best animated movies of all-time

A new year is upon us. Many will be locking in on a new gym routine. Others will be embarking on Dry January. But you? You’re setting your sights on seeing more of the world in 2026. And we’re right there with you – there’s no better time than now to start dreaming and planning some big adventures for the year ahead. So, where to go? Our Time Out editors, from South Africa to Sydney, have a few ideas up their sleeves. After all, this lucky lot make a living from exploring their corners of the world, discovering the next best cities, cool neighbourhoods and emerging travel destinations. Our recommended 2026 travel hotspots include Unesco’s next World Book Capital in Morocco, a new thermal wellness destination in the Canadian Rockies, unspoiled beach towns in Brazil – and many, many more where that came from. This is Time Out’s rundown of the best places to travel in 2026 – and how to plan the perfect trip in each.RECOMMENDED:🤩 The 26 best new things to do in the world in 2026🎵 The biggest and best music festivals to go to this year🖼️ 19 exhibitions worth travelling for in 2026 Grace Beard is Time Out’s travel editor. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines. 

Updated for 2026: A year ago, hardly anyone would imagine a Paul Thomas Anderson movie making this list. Now, it’s undeniable: One Battle After Another is absolutely elite, exhilarating filmmaking that slams on the gas and never lets up for close to three hours. Action movies get a bad rap. Not necessarily from the general public, of course. Audiences love ’em, for the most part. But for hardcore cinephiles, action is too often regarded as cinematic junk food, replacing all story and substance with eardrum-shattering explosions and mindless violence. Sure, you can enjoy one every now and then, but a steady diet of loud noises, death-defying stunts and one-liners? That’s for the normies. Here’s the thing, though: if the main point of any film is to make you feel something, what produces more visceral feeling than a good action flick? Anyone who’s ever had their senses rattled by a truly great action movie knows that there are few moviegoing experiences that can compare. Another thing: not all action movies are loud and dumb. Some are nearly operatic in scope and balletic in their grace – and sometimes, you might even actually care about the person dodging bullets and delivering throat chops. This list of the greatest action films ever made is proof that the genre is more versatile than it appears. Recommended: 🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time💥 The 18 greatest stunts in cinema (as picked by the greatest stunt people)🥋 The 25 best martial arts movies of all-time🌊 The 33...

Horror has become Hollywood’s most bankable genre, both artistically and at the box office. Last year proved it once again, with movies like Sinners and Weapons becoming cultural phenomenons and franchise entries such as The Conjuring: Last Rites and Final Destination Bloodlines raking in the receipts. At a glance, there doesn’t seem to be another surefire blockbuster on the 2026 slate. Sure, the Insidious juggernaut will likely roll on, there’s yet another Scream sequel incoming, and Zach Cregger is already following up Weapons with a Resident Evil reboot. But is there another wholly original story likely to (ahem) scare up audiences in droves? Hard to say. Then again, that’s the thing with horror: the movies most likely to make us scream the loudest – out of both fear and joy – are those we never see coming. We’ve done our best, however, to identify the upcoming movies all true horror-heads need to have on their watchlist. 26 massive movies you need to see in 2026.15 book-to-movie adaptations to get (very) excited about in 2026.