Laura Ratliff

A planear as suas viagens para o novo ano? Deve, sem dúvida, contar com aqueles clássicos da bucket list, mas se procura inspiração fresca, 2026 promete um mundo de experiências totalmente novas. Desde dormir num museu ao ar livre até percorrer paisagens ancestrais em e-bikes, fazer zipline sobre magníficas reservas naturais e festejar durante um eclipse solar – sim, a sério – há dezenas de experiências fora do circuito habitual e fora da caixa a acontecer nos próximos 12 meses. Pelos quatro cantos do mundo, a Time Out escolheu as 26 coisas mais incríveis, surpreendentes e emocionantes para fazer em 2026. Recomendado: Podes vir, 2026. Temos as melhores agendas para planear o novo ano

Planning your travels for the new year? You should absolutely factor in those long-standing bucket list entries, but if you’re looking for some fresh inspiration, 2026 promises a world of brand-new travel experiences.  From sleeping over in an open-air museum to journeying through ancient landscapes on e-bikes, ziplining over glorious wildlife reserves and partying through a solar eclipse – yes, really – there’s a shedload of off-the-beaten-track, out-of-the-box stuff happening over the next 12 months. Scroll on for our handpicked selection of the 26 coolest, weirdest and most exciting things to do in 2026.  RECOMMENDED:🎶 The biggest and best music festivals in 2026🛍️ The coolest streets in the world🏘️ The coolest neighbourhoods in the world🌃 The best cities in the world right now Stay in the loop: sign up to our free Time Out Travel newsletter for all the latest travel news and best stuff happening across the world.

South Florida doesn’t do winter. At least, not the frosty, scarf-necessary, hot-cocoa-as-survival-fuel kind. Which is why the return of real-ice skating to downtown West Palm Beach feels like a minor miracle powered by equal parts holiday spirit and serious refrigeration tech. Winter Wonderland is back at The Ben Hotel starting November 1, transforming the waterfront lawn into a glittering holiday playground with twinkling trees, Aspen-style chalets and, of course, a 50-by-66-foot rink made of the real stuff. Yes, ice. In Palm Beach. Again. Last year’s debut drew more than 30,000 skaters, proving locals are more than ready to trade sand for snowflakes, at least in theory. Around the rink, expect plenty of festive distractions: chalet vendors slinging gifts and sweets; a holiday bar for hot chocolate, s’mores, grown-up toddies and the debut of a Holiday Tree Forest created in partnership with local nonprofits, including Habitat for Humanity and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County. There will also be themed events like Live Music Saturdays and Santa Sundays, ornament-making workshops and an opening-day curling exhibition (yes, Palm Beach now has curling athletes and, no, the tropics do not care about your winter stereotypes). When is Winter Wonderland at The Ben Hotel? Skating runs daily from November 1 through January 4 from 10am to 9pm. How much are tickets? Entry is free unless you’re lacing up, in which case tickets start at $25 for adults and $10 for kids 11 and

The nor’easter that spent the weekend making itself thoroughly unwelcome (and canceled major events like Global Citizen Festival) isn’t quite finished with New York. Rain is expected to linger through Monday, September 28, while coastal neighborhoods face another round of high-tide flooding. Governor Kathy Hochul’s state of emergency covers all five New York City boroughs, Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island and Westchester County. The declaration lists Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties, plus contiguous counties. The order took effect Friday, September 25, and runs through October 25 unless the state changes it sooner. (It simply allows agencies to coordinate their storm response; it doesn’t mean every neighborhood is flooded.) RECOMMENDED: The best indoor activities in NYC when the weather outside is less than ideal For some New Yorkers, though, the water has come uncomfortably close. Coastal flooding hit Hamilton Beach, Howard Beach and Broad Channel in Queens, along with South Beach on Staten Island. Monday morning’s high tide remains a concern for vulnerable waterfront areas. The National Weather Service has also issued coastal flood alerts affecting parts of the city and Long Island through this afternoon, depending on location. According to NYC Emergency Management, crews were working through more than 1,000 reports of downed trees across the five boroughs late Sunday. A falling tree killed 56-year-old NYCHA worke

New York’s weekend concert calendar just took another brutal hit. The 2026 Global Citizen Festival, scheduled for Saturday, September 26, on Central Park’s Great Lawn, has been canceled as the city braces for a nor’easter bringing heavy rain and strong winds. Organizers made the decision in consultation with New York City and NYC Parks, citing the danger of moving tens of thousands of attendees (and a small city’s worth of concert equipment) onto the lawn. “Forecasts predict dangerous conditions and circumstances in which we cannot safely bring tens of thousands of Global Citizens, artists, crew, vendors, partners and staff onto the Great Lawn, let alone all of the equipment required,” organizers said in a statement. “Safety has to come first.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Global Citizen (@glblctzn) The cancellation is a first for Global Citizen in 14 years. Organizers said they spent the week considering other arrangements but could not find a workable alternative. This year’s frankly stacked lineup included Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey, Victoria Monét and Tomorrow X Together, with appearances from Alicia Keys, Yeonjun and Yoshiki. Hugh Jackman was set to host, while Gayle King and Rachel Brosnahan were also expected to appear. Most festival tickets were free, but fans earned them by completing actions that support Global Citizen’s mission to end extreme poverty. Anyone who purchased ticke

A New York restaurant bill is about to travel back to a time when The Devil Wears Prada had just hit theaters, Pluto was still adjusting to its demotion and a porterhouse for two cost less than $83. Benjamin Steakhouse will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Tuesday, October 6, by bringing back its original 2006 menu—with the original prices—for one day only. The throwback deal will be available at the restaurant’s original Midtown location at 52 East 41st Street. The biggest discounts are naturally in the steak section. A porterhouse for two, currently priced at $160.95, will cost $82.95. The porterhouse for three drops from $242.95 to $122.95, while a rib eye that now costs $96.95 will be $40.95. Filet mignon will go for $41.95 instead of $84.95. The savings extend beyond the beef: jumbo lump crab cakes will return to their 2006 price of $13.95, compared with $31.95 today. Tuna tartare will cost $12.95 rather than $30.95 and Chilean sea bass will fall from $60.95 to $32.95. The restaurant says it will serve its signature dishes as it did when the dining room first opened two decades ago. Founded in 2006, Benjamin Steakhouse was founded by owners Benjamin Prelvukaj and Benjamin Sinanaj, who worked at Peter Luger before establishing their own restaurant group. The original Benjamin remains a deeply traditional Midtown steakhouse, with white tablecloths, dark wood and plenty of sizzling platters. The anniversary menu also provides a startling little case study in the cost of di

Boho Miami has left the building, but its Edgewater address won’t be quiet for long. AIRE opens tonight, giving the former Boho space a new name, a new DJ booth and a fresh excuse to stay out late. The open-air nightclub and lounge will focus on deep, rhythmic and soulful house and electronic music. Its public preview on tonight features local DJs, followed by Gab Rhome tomorrow, September 25. Steve Lawler takes over Saturday, September 26, with his Pendulum party. If you’re curious about the new room, opening weekend offers three chances to get acquainted. Boho closed after six years at the address, wrapping up with parties last week. AIRE keeps the space’s open-to-the-sky feel while adding a new bar, moving the DJ booth and updating the menu and décor. The team says the music will guide each night, with resident DJs and visiting acts rotating through the calendar. Owner Jorge Moreno is behind the change, joined by Louis Puig, who created Club Space, and partners Aramis Lorie, Travis Rogers and John Fortini. Moreno says Boho had a good run, but he felt its look had become too familiar. “Boho had a great six years, but the bohemian aesthetic became one of the most borrowed looks in hospitality,” Moreno said. “When a look becomes that familiar, the honest move is to stop repeating it rather than ride it down.” The real test of any nightclub makeover, of course, comes after the opening weekend crowd goes home and the regulars decide whether to return. AIRE already has a weekly

A Halloween costume is optional at Someday Bar this October, but you may feel underdressed if you show up without at least a little eyeliner. Black Lagoon, the traveling cocktail pop-up, is taking over the Brooklyn bar from October 1 through November 1 with spooky drinks and enough eerie décor. The transformation will bring cinematic lighting, unsettling sounds and Halloween decorations to Someday Bar on Atlantic Avenue. The Brooklyn stop is one of 34 Black Lagoon takeovers planned across North America this season. Bartenders Erin Hayes and Kelsey Ramage created Black Lagoon, which began as a one-night pop-up in Toronto. This year’s menu gives classic cocktail cravings a macabre twist: Abyssa’s Obsession is a pumpkin-infused rum drink with sherry, coconut, pineapple and lime, while Bone Temple heads in a margarita direction, combining tequila, tart cherry, spiced oat orgeat, lime, vanilla honey and a touch of absinthe. If coffee is the only thing keeping you among the living, there’s also Moon Shadow, an espresso martini variation with nutmeg-infused vodka, coffee liqueur, banana liqueur, sherry and cold brew. (The organizers say nonalcoholic drinks will be available, too.) “Every year, we look for new ways to expand the world of Black Lagoon and create a spooky attraction that goes beyond a traditional Halloween pop-up,” said Hayes and Ramage. “Black Lagoon has always been a place where Halloween fans, cocktail enthusiasts and everyone in between can come together, and we’r

A shrimp head usually doesn’t get top billing. At Bangkok Supper Club next week, it gets its own moment on the plate. The West Village restaurant is one of the spots joining the third annual Make Food Not Waste Restaurant Week, running Monday, September 28, through Sunday, October 4. Organized by food recycling company Mill, the event asks participating kitchens to find more uses for their ingredients and keep food scraps out of the trash. Diners can try the results as a special dish, a three-course menu, a cocktail or a food-and-drink pairing. At Bangkok Supper Club, chef Max Wittawat’s $24 botan ebi toast makes a strong case for using the whole shrimp. The shells become coconut chili cream, the sweet raw shrimp goes on toast brushed with smoked brown butter and the head arrives deep-fried on the side as a crispy bonus. Corima is going further with a three-course menu. There, Chef Fidel Caballero will turn wild greens into a stew served over a sope, grill hamachi collar over fire and give a bluefin tostada a mango-seed version of sikil pak, a Mayan dip traditionally made with pumpkin seeds.  Elsewhere, Somssi is turning the remains of its Potato Potato Potato dish into gamja sujebi, a Korean hand-torn noodle soup finished with crispy chicken skin and potato crunch. At Bar Chucho, a burger gets extra depth from a garum made by fermenting beef scraps and bones for six months.  The drinks get in on it, too. Chambers is pairing carrots with yogurt and carrot-top pesto with a str

Little Prince is getting a grown-up wardrobe. Restaurateur Cobi Levy is turning his former SoHo restaurant at 199 Prince Street into ROMY, an intimate steakhouse scheduled to officially open next Tuesday, September 29. Designer Rafael de Cárdenas has redone the room in oxblood and black lacquer, with burled wood, dark marble, bronze and artwork by George Condo. (Ordering a Martini here might briefly make you feel qualified to own a yacht.) Chef Lucrezia Stella, whose background includes her family’s restaurants in Rome and a Michelin-starred kitchen on the Amalfi Coast, is giving the steakhouse menu room to roam. You can start with Kumamoto oysters and a cucumber–green apple mignonette, tuna tartare with gochujang and pineapple or hamachi with leche de tigre, lemongrass and plum. For a full steakhouse entrance, the Kaluga caviar service comes with onion-chive dip and housemade potato chips for $150.  Photograph: Joel GoldbergChips and caviar at ROMY. The main event includes a 12-ounce Niman Ranch New York strip au poivre, a 20-ounce Westholme Farms Wagyu ribeye and a dry-aged Snake River Farms Wagyu porterhouse. Steak skeptics have options, too: there's halibut with blood orange, lobster with sage-lemon butter and bucatini with San Marzano tomatoes and aged Parmesan. Sides run from thick-cut fries to broccolini with preserved-lemon harissa. The bar has its own restaurant pedigree. Miroo Kim, formerly of Atomix, is behind cocktails including a Brown Butter Carajillo and a Ca

If you’ve ever wanted to visit the world inside a Gorillaz album, you have five days left to try: House of Kong, an immersive exhibition celebrating 25 years of the virtual band, is open at the Brooklyn Navy Yard through Monday, September 28.  The show explores the music, artwork and elaborate fictional lives of Gorillaz members 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel Hobbs. Created in collaboration with Damon Albarn, artist Jamie Hewlett and creative director Stephen Gallagher, it turns the band’s visuals and storytelling into an experience you can walk through. Brooklyn is its third stop, following runs in London and Los Angeles. For the uninitiated, Gorillaz are a band with an unusual personnel arrangement: Albarn makes the music, Hewlett helped create the animated characters and the four cartoon members have spent a quarter-century accumulating a substantial backstory that could keep a dedicated fan busy for weeks. House of Kong offers a way into that universe, with projections and music taking the characters off your screen and into a building. You’ll find it in the Agger Fish Building at 299 Sands Street. Enter the Brooklyn Navy Yard through the Sands Street gate, then allow about seven minutes to walk to the exhibition. The experience is open daily from 10am to 10pm. Tickets start at $50 and must be purchased online; they aren’t sold at the door. One catch for anyone hoping to document every second: photos and videos aren’t allowed inside. Phone cameras are covered before entry

The West Village has a new answer to “What’s for dinner?”—and, unusually, it has one for your dog, too. H. Valley opens today, September 23, on Hudson Street. The market comes from chef Austin Johnson, formerly of One White Street and Rigor Hill Market, and restaurateur Eytan Sugarman, whose Hudson Street Hospitality group is behind White Horse Tavern. It’s a mix of café and grocery store (and the perfect place to pick up dinner when cooking has lost its appeal.) Start in the morning with coffee and a twice-baked pistachio croissant or order Johnson’s bacon, egg and cheese on a warm biscuit. The bakery will also make baguettes, sourdough, brioche, and seasonal focaccia. On weekends, Johnson plans to make rolled omelets to order at a bar modeled on one he ran at Rigor Hill. Lunch includes sandwiches ranging from roast beef with horseradish aioli and pickles to pork shoulder with broccoli rabe, Calabrian chile and date purée. There’s also a grilled chicken sandwich inspired by a Caesar salad and tuna salad dressed with green goddess on multigrain bread. Later in the day, the prepared-food selection shifts toward rotisserie chicken, grilled fish, roasted potatoes and seasonal vegetables. Shoppers with more ambition can pick up produce from regional farms, ready-to-cook ribeye or salmon, housemade pasta sauces and frozen take-and-bake lasagna. The shelves even extend to four-legged customers: H. Valley’s own dog-food line, Dion’s Diet, includes recipes made with Hudson Valley bro

If you’ve ever walked past a bakery and briefly considered abandoning all your plans, Boston has good news for your nose: A new study has named it the nicest-smelling city in America. The ranking comes from McLuck, which studied the 30 largest U.S. cities by population and gave Boston a “smell score” of 9.64 out of 10. Washington, D.C., finished second with 9.32, followed by San Francisco at 9.23. Seattle and Philadelphia completed the top five. Researchers looked at the density of bakeries, florists, candle stores and perfume shops, along with cleanliness indicators such as air quality, garbage disposal and tidiness. Boston placed among the top three cities across the measures used in the study, according to the company, and earned a cleanliness score of 9.2 out of 10—the highest of any city in the top 10. Only Columbus, Ohio, scored higher on cleanliness across the full study, at 9.5. Still, you may want to hold off on declaring every Boston sidewalk a perfume counter. Nobody conducted a citywide sniff test: The store counts came from Yelp and OpenStreetMap, while the cleanliness figures came from user-submitted data on Numbeo. Researchers then combined those measures into a weighted score. The data was collected in April 2026. The results did produce a few surprises: San Francisco had the highest density of candle stores, bakeries, florists and perfumeries among the top 10 cities, but its 5.5 cleanliness score left it in third place. Detroit made the list at No. 9 despite

You don’t need a velvet jacket, a working knowledge of Puccini or even a ticket budget to spend a night at the Metropolitan Opera this season. A new program will give New Yorkers 70,000 chances to go for free. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Met announced Opera for All today, Wednesday, September 23. The opera house will release 10,000 free tickets each month during its 2026–27 season, with seats available throughout the house—not just the very last row. (Standing room is excluded, though.) There is one catch, albeit a generous one: the lottery is for New Yorkers who have not purchased a Met Opera ticket since 2019. If you’ve never been, you’re in. If your last visit was years ago, you may be in, too. Enter the monthly lottery at on.nyc.gov/opera or through the Met’s app.  The season includes familiar titles such as La Bohème and Macbeth, alongside Lincoln in the Bardo. The idea is to make it easier to try an art form that can feel intimidating from the outside, especially when the performance takes place in one of Lincoln Center’s grandest buildings. The city is also spreading the word through New York City Public Schools, NYCHA, the New York Public Library, CUNY and other agencies and community partners. According to the announcement, the 70,000 tickets amount to about 10% of the Met’s tickets for the season and the opera company has committed to continuing the program in future seasons. Mamdani announced the initiative in a video filmed on the Met’s stage with the cast of La

Katz’s Deli and Kith Treats are back together. (Apparently, their first collaboration did not exhaust the possibilities of dessert with a pickle on top.) Beginning on Saturday, September 26, Kith Treats will serve three new Katz’s-inspired specials at its SoHo store, as well as locations in Chicago and Miami. This time, the menu includes a returning latke sundae, a Reuben-flavored ice cream creation and a dessert that comes with an egg cream. The most familiar option is the Latke Swirl, which appeared in last year’s collaboration. It folds sour cream and onion chips, applesauce and Corn Flakes into vanilla ice cream, then adds apple jam, Maldon salt and a miniature Katz’s latke.  The Katz’s Reuben 1 ventures further into savory territory. Kith Treats blends vanilla ice cream with Cheez-Its, rye croutons, beetroot powder, and liquid smoke, then tops it with black sanding sugar, a dehydrated Swiss cheese chip, Maldon salt and half a Katz’s brine pickle. There’s no corned beef in the ingredient list, but the cheese, rye and pickle make the sandwich reference clear.  For anyone who would prefer to keep lunch and dessert in separate food groups, there’s the Black & White Egg Cream. Vanilla ice cream gets black-and-white cookie pieces and Rice Krispies, then comes with an egg cream made from U-Bet chocolate syrup, whole milk and seltzer. Another black-and-white cookie sits on top. This one sounds considerably less likely to start an argument at the table. Last September, the two Ne