as viagens peculiares do nytimes

Along Avendia Paulista, the Museum of Art of São Paulo in a low-slung 1968 building

The New São Paulo
Long overshadowed by Rio de Janeiro, a newly hip São Paulo is beginning to emerge as a lively weekend destination for American tourists.

GOING TO
Reykjavik
Iceland's entire population is about 300,000 people, but Reykjavik, where about two-thirds of Icelanders live, refuses to feel like a small town.

Mérida: Finding a Home (Cheerios Included) in Mexico
Mérida, the quaint capital of Yucatún state in Mexico, is home to a growing number of expatriates who are buying and rehabilitating the city's historic buildings.

DAY OUT
In St.-Denis, an Oasis for Women
Parisian women in the know trek out to the end of the Métro Line 13 to go to the Hammam Pacha, an authentic women-only Maghrebi bathhouse

Matador for a Day
By GEOFFREY GRAY
The California Academy of Tauromaquia is one of the few bullfighting schools in the United States.
Destination: California