World’s tallest bridge and biggest museum named ‘greatest places of 2026’ | CNN

China’s robot restaurant, the challenges of African airspace, plus TIME’s pick of the best places to visit in 2026. Here’s what’s happening in Travel. A heap of shiny new parks, museums, cruises, hotels and attractions have made it into TIME magazine’s 100 “greatest places of 2026,” providing a great excuse to freshen up your bucket list. Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, which opened in September 2025, is the world’s tallest bridge, rising some 2,050 feet above the Beipan River in southeast China. As well as cutting commuters’ travel time over the canyon from two hours to two minutes, it’s a tourist attraction, too, with a glass walkway, panoramic cafe and bungee jumping among the emerging treats. The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza is the world’s largest museum dedicated to a single civilization. It was two decades in the making, and its budget ballooned to more than $1 billion, but it finally opened in November 2025. The array of treasures on display is a huge leap forward for Egyptology. Check out CNN’s stories on some of the other selected destinations: Surf Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi’s Zayed National Museum, Reefline Miami, Universal Epic Universe in Orlando,