TIME journal has revealed the eighth installment of its annual World’s Biggest Locations Listing for 2026 — and two New York Metropolis cultural hotspots have been a part of the record.
The choice highlights 100 locations worldwide, categorized into locations to remain and locations to go to.
As a way to select the locations, TIME solicits nominations of locations — together with inns, cruises, eating places, sights, museums, parks, and extra — from its worldwide community, in addition to placing out an utility course of.
Amongst this yr’s World’s Biggest Locations embrace Philadelphia’s Netflix Home; the Disney Future cruise ship; the United Arab Emirates’ Surf Abu Dhabi, which was the primary synthetic surf park to affix the professional surf championship circuit; Common Epic Universe in Orlando; London’s new V&A Storehouse East; and Cizhong, China’s Songtsam Lodge, a boutique resort community that tries to get vacationers out of the cities.
Two of the locations that made the record have been proper right here in New York Metropolis: Studio Museum in Harlem and The Frick Assortment.
The Studio Museum was initially based — famously above a liquor retailer — in 1968 and reopened in November 2025 after seven years of development at 144 West a hundred and twenty fifth Avenue.
Led by former intern and longtime director Thelma Golden, the establishment acts as each an archive and incubator for Black artists and Black tradition. It homes a gallery, artwork studios, a library, neighborhood assembly space, present store and rooftop backyard.
Guests will discover works by trailblazers like sculptor Elizabeth Catlett and photographer Gordon Parks, in addition to artists-in-residence turned family names like Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas and Kerry James Marshall.
The 150-seat foyer capabilities as an inverted stoop, and the constructing is impressed by Harlem’s church buildings, flats and road corners. The seven-story constructing almost doubles the museum’s gallery area at 82,000 sq. ft and is the establishment’s first purpose-built house since its founding, in line with TIME.
The Frick Assortment additionally reopened in 2025 after a $220 million restoration challenge in time for it’s ninetieth anniversary. When it closed in 2021, “New York didn’t simply lose entry to one of many world’s nice museums — it misplaced entry right into a rarefied personal world,” TIME mentioned.
The establishment is understood for its “intimate presentation” of European artwork, spanning the Renaissance via the late nineteenth century, housed within the authentic house of Henry Clay Frick.
After reopening in April, it granted entry to a the second-floor dwelling quarters as soon as lived in by Henry Clay, Adelaide Frick and their daughter Helen Clay Frick, the place artworks have been returned to their authentic settings. Most notably, François Boucher’s eight-painting collection, The Arts and Sciences, has been rehung in its authentic area in Adelaide’s upstairs boudoir.
“By reopening its personal rooms, the Frick restores the feeling that has at all times made it singular: the privilege of being invited inside,” TIME famous.
The renovation additionally made method for a brand new exhibition gallery, auditorium, schooling room, restaurant, espresso bar, restored seventieth Avenue Backyard and improved ADA entry.
Just a few California locations additionally made the record, together with Freeway 1 — often known as the Pacific Coast Freeway, Lodge del Coronado and the Counterculture Museum in San Francisco.
Freeway 1 had been partially closed since January 2023 and eventually reopened in its entirety on January 14. It went via intensive stabilization work, reminiscent of strengthened slopes and cable-net material to catch falling particles.
The coastal route hyperlinks a few of California’s most iconic landmarks, reminiscent of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Hearst Fort and full entry to Huge Sur.
Lodge del Coronado, dubbed “The Del,” was initially in-built 1888 and designated a Nationwide Historic Landmark in 1977. The resort simply accomplished a seven-year, $550 million renovation, specializing in painstaking restoration and preservation maintaining with its landmark standing.
Because the story goes, Lodge del Coronado hosted a ball for 1,000 company in honor of Edward, Prince of Wales, in April 1920, and on the time, his future spouse lived in Coronado, then married to her first husband, TIME famous. In 1936, the newly topped King Edwards abdicated the throne to marry Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson, “cementing the Del’s place in a century of gilded transatlantic lore.”
The Counterculture Museum opened in June 2025, filled with memorabilia, artifacts and academic supplies from the Sixties, together with FBI fugitive posters of members of the far-left militant group Climate Underground.
Particular sections concentrate on ladies’s rights, homosexual rights and civil rights, which cofounder Estelle Cimino notes stay urgently related at the moment.
