Historical spa towns in the Alps that were popular in the 19 th and early 20th centuries as places to recover from illness are seeing renewed interest. Bad Gastein in Austria has seen a hotel boom, ...

I grew up loving annual family ski trips to Vermont — the cozy wood-paneled condo, the hot tub on a snow-covered deck, the mid-mountain stop for cocoa and the chowder in a bread bowl in the base lodge ...