Unmapped Gems

Countries

26 countries so far, 133 places between them. Pick one to see every city and entry logged there.

13 places1 city

Hungary

A country most people visit for one weekend in one city, and that's not really a complaint.

11 places6 cities

Finland

A country of lakes and manors where a 200-year-old estate restaurant is more common than a tourist trap.

11 places6 cities

Japan

The famous stops book out months ahead; the counters that actually feed the neighbourhood mostly don't take reservations at all.

11 places5 cities

Thailand

The north is a different country from the islands, and the better one.

10 places8 cities

Italy

The further south you go, the fewer reservations you need.

10 places5 cities

Mexico

Thirty-two states, each with a kitchen that thinks it is the real one.

10 places5 cities

Spain

Eleven distinct regions under one flag — the food, the hours and the accent change every few hundred kilometres.

10 places4 cities

United Arab Emirates

Skip the skyline and the old trading quarters still have wind towers, courtyards, and food that predates the malls.

9 places6 cities

Morocco

Four imperial cities, and the trick is to get lost in the right one.

7 places5 cities

United States

Enormous, over-documented, and still full of places nobody drives the extra hour to reach.

6 places3 cities

Turkey

A country split across two continents, and the better half of Istanbul is the one tour buses skip.

4 places2 cities

Greece

A country where the best table is rarely the one with the view.

3 places2 cities

Canada

A country too large for one food scene — Quebec alone barely resembles the rest of it.

3 places1 city

Netherlands

Flat, cyclable, and small enough that the best bar in a city is rarely more than twenty minutes by bike.

3 places3 cities

Norway

Fjord walls and cabin culture — a coastline too folded for any road to take straight.

2 places2 cities

Sweden

Deep forest and long light, where a stay in the trees counts as a proper holiday, not a novelty.

1 place1 city

Chile

A ribbon of a country pinned between the Andes and the Pacific, ending in Patagonian wind.

1 place1 city

France

The classics survive because they still work, not because anyone's obligated to keep them.

1 place1 city

Georgia

Eight thousand years of wine, the Caucasus two hours away, and a capital that still feels like a secret.

1 place1 city

Germany

A spa culture that predates the country itself, still run with the same clinical seriousness.

1 place1 city

Portugal

Small, coastal, and still cheaper than it should be — go past the tram routes.

1 place

Singapore

A city-state that treats a hawker stall with the same seriousness as a hatted dining room.

1 place1 city

Switzerland

Alpine shelves and valley towns, where a cabin with a view usually means a real one.

1 place1 city

United Kingdom

A country that's been arguing about the weather for two thousand years and building around it anyway.

1 place1 city

Uruguay

South America's quiet corner, and the steak sandwich alone justifies the detour.

1 place1 city

Vietnam

A north-to-south country where the food changes dialect every few hundred kilometres.