Atlas Obscura’s Guide to Unique Romantic Getaways

You’ve decided to go somewhere together. Maybe you just got married and you’re planning a honeymoon. Maybe you’re marking a decade together with an anniversary trip that actually means something. Maybe you don’t need an occasion at all, save for a wish to get out of ordinary life for a while and remember why you chose each other. Everyone expects you to go somewhere with an overwater bungalow and a fruit plate shaped like a swan. Here's our counterproposal: what if this trip gave you a story no one else you know could tell? The best couples’ trips aren’t the most expensive ones. They’re the ones where you turned a corner together and both stopped breathing for a second—because neither of you expected what was there. This guide is organized not by price tier or beach quality but by the kind of adventure you’re after. Find the entry that sounds like you. Then go. Surrender to Your Surroundings Fes, Morocco Fes el-Bali is held by many to be the world’s largest car-free urban zone. This commercial district within the historic city of Fes, largely unchanged since the middle ages, comprises nine thousand four hundred winding alleyways where getting lost amid the merchant stalls, mosques…