Albania

There's a specific guilt that comes with writing one of these posts. You've watched it happen before. Some place is "undiscovered," someone writes about it, then someone else does, then a boutique hotel opens, then the prices double, then a guy in linen pants and a girl in a dress are doing a photoshoot in front of the thing that used to just be a thing. I know what I'm participating in here. As Bourdain put it: "You're probably going to find it anyway, so here's a little preemptive truth telling. There's no happy ending." There's no version of this where the place stays exactly as you found it.