CNN Travel reveals the best places to visit in 2026, from Japan and Spain to Australia and the Caribbean, highlighting culture, food, nature and once-in-a-lifetime events.

Where to go — and where to avoid — in 2026, plus what’s changing in flights and trains, how not to be that traveler, and what happened when we asked AI to help plan our trips.

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