Barcelona

Few vacation locales have the sheer abundance of activities Barcelona offers. If you’re a beach-goer, there’s plenty of sand and surf. If you want to go museum-hopping, the Picasso Museum and La Pedrera are tough to beat. And if you just prefer to stroll the city, shopping in boutiques and sampling from food stalls — well, there’s all that, too, and in spades. Barcelona combines the best of a coastal Mediterranean town with the trappings of big-city life to give you countless ways to spend a week. Each trip you make to the city can be different from the last. So really, the only tough part about visiting Barça is picking an itinerary.