What happens on a German wine walk, what to expect at the tents, what to pack, and how to find one near you in Southwest Germany.

Each winter, Regensburg's Minoritenkirche hosts a different immersive light-and-sound show, featuring projection art across a medieval church. What it's like and how to catch it.

Projections washing across a facade in Mainz after dark, the light show over Napoleon's tomb in Paris, lantern festivals, a church in Regensburg lit for Christmas. Art turns cities into something else.

The Monet room you stand inside while it moves around you, the Dark Matter kind of digital maze, the exhibits that trade the frame for the whole room. Bring the person who swears they hate museums.me to hear.

A concert in a castle courtyard, an orchestra in a Roman amphitheater, the Venice Carnival playing out over the water. When where you sit is as much the point as what you came to hear.

Lots of places offer hikes. Lots of places offer wine. But when you put the two together, you get an outdoor hiking adventures that supports the regional vineyards and is a great time with friends.

Not all trails are made equal. Some end in a view. Some have wine vending machines along the way. And others have ….

My blueprint for an easy lake day: when to arrive, where to park, the swim, and the spot where Kobe is actually allowed in.

Not the famous ones. The ruins you can climb, the fortress with the view, and the ones where the history actually lands.

Trier, the Roman roads, and the amphitheatres you can still walk into. Two thousand years, an hour down the road.

The memorials, the layers most people walk past. The heavier history and truths from the ancestors.