In this weekend’s travel pages: traveling in Japan, last-chance winter fun, and urban travel in a new crop of destinations.

The slide in this picture isn’t in a theme park (unless your idea of a thrill ride is watching Un Chien Andalou), it’s in the massive entry hall of the Tate Modern in London.

Kelly Loudenberg’s latest effort, a foray into culture jamming, is getting some pickup from the blogosphere.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 1/28/07.

A piece from today’s NYT Travel Section on Madrid has vaulted into the ranks of the paper’s most-emailed. It seems, now that Barcelona has slumped into a deep post-party hangover, that stuffier, but more tasteful Madrid is getting it’s due

“Where Have You Been?” is a monthly NYC event for travelers with different slant on the whole business of going elsewhere, and a good story to back it up.

A good guidebook can go a long way towards making or breaking a trip, but the best travel experiences still come with the thrill of discovery attached: secret spots known only to locals, with directions sketched out in hand-drawn maps.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 12/31/06.

If you missed the annual art/celebrity showdown that was Art Basel Miami Beach, the friendly dilettantes at Cool Hunting, now sufficiently recovered from their hangovers, have just the thing: a video recap of the weekend’s happenings

The first new art museum in Boston in nearly one hundred years debuted last weekend. The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) its opened its very shiny and futuristic doors on December 10th in a formerly derelict harbor-front area of South Boston.