This isn’t a “best of” or a comprehensive guide to Madrid—it is far too vast and layered a city for that. Rather, it’s a collection of personal favorites from my time there as a traveler passing through.

Three-Michelin-star restaurant the French Laundry in Yountville, Calif. To most, it barely registered, but for those who track every...

A strange chill crept over me as I stood before Guernica  in the Museo Reina Sofía. Not the kind of cold you shake off, but one that...