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

Chicago’s rail connections are getting a major addition—though passengers will have to wait a few more years before climbing aboard. Illinois has finally secured the funding needed to restore Amtrak service between Chicago and the Quad Cities, per The Chicago Tribune, clearing the last major financial hurdle for a route that has been discussed, delayed and revived repeatedly over nearly two decades. Passenger trains last served the Quad Cities—which consist of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa as well as Moline, Rock Island and East Moline in Illinois—back in 1979, meaning the eventual return will end an absence of almost half a century. RECOMMENDED: The 22 most epic Metra day trips from Chicago The planned service will operate two daily round trips between Chicago and Moline, giving travelers a car-free route to the metro area straddling the Illinois-Iowa border. Once running, the train could make weekend visits to the John Deere Pavilion, Augustana College and the Quad Cities River Bandits’ ballpark considerably easier—and save Chicagoans from spending hours staring at Interstate 88. The breakthrough came after the Federal Railroad Administration extended Illinois’ access to federal funds originally committed under President Barack Obama in 2010. A state transit package has also allocated up to $476.7 million for the Quad Cities route and a separate proposed rail connection between Peoria and Chicago. “Illinois relies on rail to push our economy forward and to ensure statew

New York’s most delicious dollar menu returns this weekend, when more than 30 local vendors descend on Jackson Heights with enough steamed and fried dumplings to test the limits of both your stomach. The 14th annual Momo Crawl takes over Diversity Plaza and a blocked-off stretch of 37th Road on Sunday, September 13, bringing $1 momos, live music, dance and other performances to the heart of one of the city's great food neighborhoods. The festival runs from noon to 5pm, with voting for its fiercely contested Momo Championship Belt closing at 4:30 pm. For the uninitiated, momos are plump Himalayan dumplings typically filled with meat or vegetables, then steamed or fried and served with a vividly spiced dipping sauce. During the crawl, visitors can taste versions from more than 30 Tibetan, Nepalese and South Asian businesses, including neighborhood favorites Amdo Kitchen, Gangri Karpo, Potala Fresh Food and Mom’s Momo. View this post on Instagram To participate, buy a passport, follow the map from stop to stop and pay each vendor $1 per momo. Every passport also includes a ballot, allowing crawlers to crown the restaurant responsible for the day’s finest doughy pocket. The winning vendor receives the Momo Championship Belt—and neighborhood bragging rights until next year. Regular passports cost $15 and the first 100 crawlers will receive a traditional Tibetan scarf, known as a khatag. A $60 limited-edition option includes skip-the-line access at select vendors, a

Soho’s newest nightlife spot lets you sip a caviar Martini upstairs, then descend into a red-velvet disco den once sitting still begins to feel unreasonable. Bar Leone opened yesterday, September 10, on Broome Street, bringing two floors of cocktails, food, art and dancing to a 4,800-square-foot space. Restaurateur Andres Diaz, the hospitality veteran behind Her Name Was Carmen and La Rubia, spent two years developing the lounge with New York architecture and interior-design firm BOND. The two levels are meant to feel like separate destinations: upstairs is an intimate, mid-century-inspired Martini lounge dressed in Sapele wood, corduroy velvet and red travertine. The brighter room will also operate as a gallery, with exhibitions changing every three to four months and lighting designed to spotlight the artwork. Photograph: Matthew KappasBar Leone RECOMMENDED: The New York Transit Museum is turning a decommissioned subway station into an underground disco for its 50th anniversary Downstairs, things get groovier, with red velvet wallpaper, vinyl banquettes and a shiny red lacquer-and-chrome bar that channels the glamorous excess of Italo disco and 1970s downtown New York. (There is, crucially, a dance floor.) Italian-born, New York-based DJ Luigi Ambrosi curated the venue’s roster of resident DJs. Upstairs playlists will range from Neapolitan jazz, Afrobeats, funk and Balearic sounds, while the subterranean room will spin Italo disco, classics and nu-disco. You can essential

New York cinephiles, cancel your plans through December. Film at Lincoln Center has unveiled its fall and winter lineup, and the calendar is stacked with festival winners, returning auteurs, a controversial restoration and one very large radioactive reptile. The season begins with the 64th New York Film Festival, running September 25 through October 12. Among its biggest attractions is the world premiere of Godzilla Minus Zero, director Takashi Yamazaki’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One. Set in 1949, the sequel reunites audiences with the Shikishima family as they encounter yet another city-flattening calamity. It screens September 26, 27 and 30, with Yamazaki and cast members scheduled to attend the first two showings. Photograph: Courtesy Toho StudiosGodzilla Minus Zero RECOMMENDED: The best movies of 2026 (so far), from The Odyssey to The Invite Once the festival ends, four Cannes honorees will settle in for theatrical runs: Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, which earned him Cannes’ Best Director prize, opens October 23. The postwar drama follows novelist Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, played by Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller, on a fictionalized 1949 road trip through a devastated Germany. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Cannes Grand Prix winner Minotaur arrives November 20, following a Russian transport executive ordered to send some of his employees to the war in Ukraine. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s 196-minute All of a Sudden (whose stars Virginie Efira and Tao Oka

New Yorkers hardly need an official excuse to eat pizza, but we’re getting one anyway: the inaugural NYC Pizza Week will arrive this fall, sending hungry locals across the city in search of limited-edition slices from some of its best independent pizzerias. Running September 20 through October 4, the first-time event will feature more than 20 participating locations across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Each shop will create its own NYC Pizza Week Signature Slice, available only during the celebration. No tickets, reservations or special apps are required; just walk in, order the featured slice and pay for your food. RECOMMENDED: Six NYC pizzerias were just named among the best pizza in the world The lineup includes beloved local favorites like Paulie Gee’s, Stretch Pizza, Slicehaus, Unregular Pizza and Diamond Slice, plus neighborhood spots in the East Village, Lower East Side, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Clinton Hill, Ridgewood and Long Island City. This is no parade of plain cheese slices, either. Stretch Pizza’s Domino Park location will serve the Al Pastor, topped with braised pork, salsa verde, pineapple ricotta and cilantro. Paulie Gee’s Greenpoint Slice Shop is making the Red, White & Greenpoint Square with provolone, sausage, spinach and hot cherry peppers, while Slicehaus is bringing smoked mozzarella, cherry tomatoes and black garlic to the party. View this post on Instagram Other contenders include Diamond Slice's mortadella, pesto and stracciatel

The High Line has hosted forests, billboards, giant pigeons and enough public art to fill a small museum. Its newest resident, however, may be the flashiest yet: a monumental golden “snake” curling through the park in the Meatpacking District. Bulgari has unveiled auruBOROS—Urban Memory and Collective Dream, a 33-foot pneumatic sculpture created by Berlin-based art and architecture duo Plastique Fantastique. The free installation is now open above Little West 12th Street, near The Standard, High Line, and will remain on view through September 20. The work resembles a gleaming serpent or double helix, with massive coils rising from beneath the elevated park and wrapping around its concrete supports. Visitors can walk among and through the reflective forms, which shift in appearance as sunlight, shadows and passing New Yorkers bounce off the metallic surface. The sculpture’s name combines aurum, the Latin word for gold, with ouroboros, the ancient image of a serpent eating its own tail. Its location also fits the installation’s themes of memory and transformation: the High Line, after all, turned an abandoned freight railway into one of the city’s most popular public spaces. View this post on Instagram A post shared by BVLGARI Official (@bvlgari) Created by Plastique Fantastique artists Marco Canevacci and Yena Young, auruBOROS is Bulgari’s first public art installation in the United States. The duo is known for large-scale inflatable environments, includi

Your Brooklyn Public Library card can already score you books, vinyl records, museum admission and even musical instruments. Starting this week, it can also help you pick up a new hobby without buying a small Michaels store’s worth of equipment. The Brooklyn Public Library has launched its first Craft Supply Library at Central Library, allowing adult cardholders to borrow reusable tools and kits for creative projects at no cost. The program comes at a time when analog hobbies continue to flourish—and as many would-be crafters discover that getting started can require a surprising amount of gear, money and closet space. The collection is divided into two categories: craft kits, which contain an assortment of reusable supplies designed to help borrowers learn or complete a particular craft, and craft tools, which are single-purpose items used for specific tasks. Cardholders can borrow up to three kits and two tools at the same time. Kits can be checked out for three weeks and tools have a shorter, one-week lending period. RECOMMENDED: The most gorgeous libraries in NYC, from the NYPL to Jefferson Market View this post on Instagram One catch: borrowers still need to supply the stuff that gets used up. The library does not provide consumable materials such as yarn, thread, glue, paint or buttons. Sewing machines are also not part of the collection—at least not yet. To borrow an item, cardholders must place a hold through BPL’s online catalog and wait for a phone

New York Fashion Week runs through September 15, bringing a week of runways, parties and extremely ambitious outfits to the city. Even if you’re not holding a show invitation, you can still catch the fashion set in its natural habitat: ordering ice-cold martinis at the bar. From a Champagne-fueled fried-chicken palace to a discreet Japanese favorite in Soho, these seven restaurants deliver excellent food with a side of outfit reconnaissance. Here's where to spot the well-heeled and famous while dining out during NYFW.  7 stylish restaurants for people-watching during New York Fashion Week: Photograph: Courtesy Omen AzenOmen Azen 1. Omen Azen This longtime Soho Japanese restaurant is a fashion-industry favorite precisely because it doesn’t try too hard. Its understated dining room attracts editors, designers and models for home-style dishes—and reliably interesting people-watching. Secure a table, keep your eyes open and pretend you’re only admiring the food. Photograph: Courtesy Ambassadors ClubhouseAmbassadors Clubhouse 2. Ambassadors Clubhouse A relative newcomer in NoMad, Ambassadors Clubhouse has already earned see-and-be-seen status. The Punjabi-inspired menu arrives amid jewel tones, sumptuous textures and intimate dining spaces modeled after the party mansions of Northern India. It’s a natural fit for industry dinners that may (or may not) end up on Instagram. CoqadoqCoqadoq 3. COQODAQ Fried chicken and Champagne is already a fabulous pairing; during Fashion Week

New Yorkers have dreamed of a direct rail link between Brooklyn and Queens for decades. Now, at least, we know what waiting for it might look like. The MTA has released new renderings of the Interborough Express, the proposed light-rail line that would run between the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Roosevelt Avenue in Queens. The sleek images show airy, mostly above-ground stations that appear worlds away from the dim platforms and mystery puddles of the century-old subway system. One rendering shows a glassy station entrance beneath a wood-lined canopy, while another imagines New Utrecht Avenue with bright yellow platform supports, mosaic-style wall art and a streamlined blue train. A third shows an elevated station spanning a city street, complete with greenery, bike racks and another sweeping wooden roof. Photograph: Courtesy of MTAInterborough Express RECOMMENDED: The New York Transit Museum is turning a decommissioned subway station into an underground disco for its 50th anniversary The visuals come as design and environmental work advances on the $5.5 billion project, which would repurpose an existing freight corridor and build 18 new stations. The trip from one end of the line to the other is expected to take 32 minutes, with connections to 17 subway lines, 51 bus routes and the Long Island Rail Road. “This would be the first real, first end-to-end new transit line in New York City since 1937,” Governor Kathy Hochul told Gothamist. The IBX is projected to carry 160,000 r

New York’s towering temple of pastrami is officially coming back from the dead—and yes, the sandwiches remain almost comically enormous. Carnegie Deli will open Tuesday, September 15 at 834 Seventh Avenue, nearly a decade after its original location closed in 2016. The new restaurant is just a few blocks from the deli’s former home and occupies a space with its own formidable sandwich history: it once housed Stage Deli, Carnegie’s longtime rival in the city’s so-called pastrami wars. Photograph: Evan SungThe new Carnegie Deli   Photograph: Evan SungThe new Carnegie Deli RECOMMENDED: The best New York delis, from old-time appetizing stores to tradition-keeping newcomers The 2,500-square-foot restaurant will seat 110 diners at closely packed tables, with traditional waiter service and a visible deli counter. Garrett Singer Architecture + Design has filled the space with throwback details, including wood-paneled walls, a front dessert case, the giant pickle and the celebrity-covered Wall of Fame. Original photos and frames from the former restaurant will return, featuring famous patrons ranging from Mel Brooks and Robin Williams to Taylor Swift and a young Venus Williams clutching her namesake sandwich. The menu brings back the deli’s pastrami ($29) and corned beef ($28), stacked on old-fashioned rye with Düsseldorf mustard and pickles. The Broadway Danny Rose ($37), combining both meats, also returns, along with the open-faced Reuben ($31), chopped liver, matzo ball soup,

If you spot a herd of buffalo lumbering through Lower Manhattan this September, don't panic. They're not lost—they're art. On September 19 and 20, 50 life-sized buffalo puppets will roam through Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn as part of Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi, a free public art event that promises to turn city streets into a moving performance. The spectacle will feature 100 New Yorkers operating the buffalo puppets as they weave through the city, accompanied by live music, dance, tribal ceremonies, gospel choirs, marching bands and performances at public spaces along the route. Organizers say spectators won't just watch the procession—they'll be invited to join it. RECOMMENDED: Downtown Brooklyn's sidewalks have turned into a giant public art gallery The ambitious project comes from playwright and director Amir Nizar Zuabi, who created the production in partnership with elders from the Lenape and Lakota Tribes. It's being presented by St. Ann's Warehouse, The Walk Productions and KBH Arts—the same team behind Little Amal, the towering puppet of a Syrian refugee girl whose emotional walk across New York captivated audiences in 2022. Photograph: Ant StrackSouth Africa puppet workshop But why buffalo? The American buffalo (officially the United States' national mammal) is central to the work's message. Once driven to the brink of extinction during the 19th century, the species is now a symbol of resilience, survival and restoration, especially for Nat

For more than three decades, Jake’s Dilemma has supplied the Upper West Side with cold beer and crowded game days. Now, the neighborhood institution is calling last orders. The bar will close on Sunday, October 18 after losing its lease, the team announced on Instagram. The sprawling watering hole has occupied 430 Amsterdam Avenue, between West 80th and 81st Streets, for 32 years. “After 32 years on the Upper West Side, we’re heartbroken to share that we lost our lease and Jake’s Dilemma will close its doors on October 18,” the bar wrote. “Jake’s has been so much more than a bar. It’s been late nights, game days, first dates, bad decisions, lifelong friendships, incredible staff and more stories than we could ever fit into one post.” RECOMMENDED: One of the Upper West Side’s most popular brunch spots is closing after 45 years Jake’s paired an old-school pub feel with the energy of a downtown party bar. It poured 19 draft beers and stocked more than 35 bottled varieties, including microbrews, lagers, ales and seasonal selections. Multiple televisions made it a reliable headquarters for football fans, while beer pong tables, foosball, trivia nights and live music kept the place busy between games. On weekends, a DJ turned the bar into a dance floor. Downstairs, the Oak Cellar offered a slightly more polished setting, with stone archways, mosaic tiles, brick walls, cobblestone floors and stained-glass accents. Still, Jake’s was never a place that took itself too seriously, an im