The top-scoring U.S. property (formerly the Lodge at Koele) is wrapping up a $50 million renovation in February 2007. Its perfect-scoring Design melds...

Its "mountain chic design" that melds "sleek and elegant interiors" with the rugged surroundings, earning this two-year-old Arts...

Its position on a headland above a mile-long beach secures Malliouhana a perfect Location score. The resort has Mediterranean and Caribbean touches:...

Enhanced by terraced gardens modeled on those at Versailles, this Paradise Island resort has views of the Atlantic that are "the prettiest...

"Focused as much on archaeology as on its guests," this 400-year-old former Dominican convent is devoted to uncovering and displaying the...

This "Incan treasure" in the heart of the city features sixteenth-century colonial architecture. Flowers, stone cloisters, and artwork...

Set in "a quintessential, charming French town" on 17 acres of gardens and rolling lawns "that are spotless enough to eat off,"...

This property, whose 1906 building originally housed an insurance company, gets perfect scores in four out of five categories, starting with that for...

Crossing a teak bridge over a lotus pond makes for "a standout arrival" at this resort that is "above and beyond in every way"—hence...

This 1928 Doric-columned Palladian hotel—formerly a General Post Office—has "a magnificent atrium lobby" with the original moldings....

"The only thing you hear at night is the sounds of the wild." At this island camp in the Okavango Delta, tents on raised platforms under a canopy of...

A nineteenth-century judge's cliff-top summer residence in Blue Mountains National Park, 90 minutes from Sydney, it has 22 acres of landscaped...

Formerly Le Meridien at Rialto, this top-scoring Australian property is a nineteenth-century twin-building Venetian-style former wool store designed...