Summer love isn’t just a thing. It’s the thing.

And (as if falling in love isn’t so darn hard anyway) in our wildest fantasies, we can at least dream that it happens in the summer, at a romantic villa in Italy, or on a tropical island, or perhaps, even on ancestral land in the heart of Indian country. 

Regardless of whether or not you fall in love this summer, there are so many ways to love the world, and discover what countries, cities or towns will send your heart a flutter.  

Who knows, one of these 11 locales could be a romantic stroll away from you.

1. Santorini & Mykonos, Greece

2. Koh Tao, Thailand

3. Edinburgh, Scotland

4. La Seine, Paris, France

5. Kauai, Hawaii

6. Portland, Oregon

7. Isola S. Giulio Lago Orta, Italy

8. Cathedral Cove Sea Cave, Coromandel, New Zealand

9. Ruby Beach, Forks area, Trail head, Washington state

10. Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

11. Tonto National Forest, Arizona