As Mick Jagger famously sang, you can’t at all times get what you need. That applies to journey too — regardless of how meticulously deliberate a visit, you can’t keep away from dangerous climate, pure disasters, employee strikes and different exterior elements.
Sure, there are many lists recommending places you ought to visit — together with on NCS Travel — however right here’s a roundup of the museums, non secular websites and theme park rides that shall be off limits in 2026 and perhaps even without end.
Museum of Collecting and Design
Founded in Las Vegas, the museum was an ode to Jessica Oreck’s love of all issues tiny. Travelers might come in and admire the gathering or make a flatlay of itsy-bitsy erasers or one-inch collectible figurines.
After the strip mall that housed it was designated for demolition, Oreck took the present on the street, driving the gathering across the United States. The bodily museum isn’t any extra, and it’s unclear if it can discover one other everlasting residence.
Plan B: Omega Mart
Las Vegas likes to rejoice quirkiness. OmegaMart is an artwork expertise disguised as a grocery store. It’s run by Meow Wolf, the collective backed by writer George R.R. Martin.
Paris’ Centre Pompidou, which opened in the Nineteen Seventies with a revolutionary inside-as-outside design, is taking a break to renovate its areas, enhance accessibility and take away asbestos. The museum will reopen in 2030.
Plan B: KANAL
Good information, artwork lovers: the long-planned Pompidou outpost in Brussels will open its doorways in November 2026. KANAL, situated in a former automobile manufacturing facility, will observe in the footsteps of the Centre Pompidou by specializing in trendy and up to date artwork and structure.
The 1,300-year-old Gounsa Temple in South Korea’s Uiseong County, a serious Buddhist landmark, was burned to the bottom by a wildfire that swept by the world in March 2025. The temple, together with three others close by, is present process restoration, however there’s presently no agency timeline in place for reopening.
Plan B: Bongjeongsa Temple
This 1,300-year-old web site is residence to Geungnakjeon, the oldest picket constructing in the nation, and was visited by Queen Elizabeth II in 1999. The Bongjeongsa advanced is situated about 22 miles from Gounsa Temple, in town of Andong. Don’t miss the finely detailed, well-preserved Buddhist murals in the unique constructing.
The Eleventh-century collection of cloths depicting the English Conquest is without doubt one of the world’s oldest and best-preserved types of visible historical past. As such, it deserves a superb residence.
Bayeux, the city in northern France that gave the tapestry its title, is in the midst of an formidable mission to replace and increase the museum that homes it. The museum shut in August 2025 and goals to reopen in 2027, the centennial of William the Conqueror’s delivery.
Plan B: Bonnat-Helleu Museum
Arts and tradition lovers who wish to increase their horizons past Paris can plan a visit to Bayonne, in the French Basque Country. There, the Bonnat-Helleu Museum, nicknamed the “Little Louvre” for its deep bench of Old Masters work, has reopened after a 15-year closure with a café, reward store and twice as a lot exhibition area.
But if it’s the Bayeux or nothing for you, excellent news: it’ll be on show at the British Museum subsequent fall in a landmark alternate.
Disney is at all times altering and updating its parks. The newest space due for transition is Rivers of America, which incorporates Tom Sawyer Island and the Liberty Square Riverboat.
Fans mentioned goodbye to the world in August. It shall be become a themed land based mostly on the “Cars” franchise that Disney has mentioned is “part of the largest expansion in the history of Magic Kingdom.”
Plan B: Rivers of America, west
Fans of Tom and Huck — the Mark Twain characters who impressed the attraction — can nonetheless visit Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland and at Tokyo Disneyland in Japan.
This pioneering downtown New York City bookstore simply couldn’t survive gentrification. The feminist, worker-owned store, which opened its doorways in 1999, introduced the closure of the enterprise in September.
“The care we’re taking to sunset this space, as best we know how, is because of your support over these 26+ years,” the cooperative’s house owners wrote in a farewell message.
Plan B: Big Apple bookstores
New York has had a spate of unbiased bookstore openings in the previous couple of years. Other spots price testing are Yu & Me, which focuses on writers of Asian heritage; the Ripped Bodice, a celebration of all issues romance; and The Lit Bar, the one bookshop in the borough of the Bronx.
One of Paris’ most spooky sights, the bones of thousands and thousands of former Parisians are on view in this practically one-mile-long tunnel. A former limestone mine, it sits beneath the modern Montparnasse neighborhood. The catacombs are below restore and as a consequence of open someday in 2026, however because it’s such a beloved attraction and the reopening date isn’t agency, we’ve included it right here simply to be protected.
Plan B: Sedlec Ossuary
Osteophiles can get their repair of all issues skeletal on the Czech Republic’s Sedlec Ossuary, also known as the bone church. A UNESCO World Heritage web site, it’s situated in the city of Kutna Hora about 46 miles outdoors of Prague. If your itinerary retains you in Paris, think about visiting a number of the above-ground memorials to the lifeless, like close by Montparnasse Cemetery.
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art isn’t closing — however its rooftop is. The roof, which has lengthy been a spot for site-specific works, is without doubt one of the areas the museum is upgrading and increasing over the following 5 years.
When it reopens in 2030, it can enhance from 7,500 to 10,000 sq. toes — all the higher for these group pictures.
Plan B: Socrates Sculpture Park
Across the East River, the neighborhood of Long Island City, Queens, is one among New York’s most underrated artwork scenes. Visit Socrates Sculpture Park, which frequently rotates daring and enjoyable outside art work, plus performances and installations. The view of the Manhattan skyline isn’t too dangerous both.
Raleigh, North Carolina’s up to date artwork museum introduced an indefinite pause this summer time. In an announcement, the museum mentioned it was “taking a collective breath — not to step back, but to look forward. We’re exploring bold new ways to engage our audiences, fund our mission, and serve our community with greater impact.”
Plan B: North Carolina Museum of Art
Just a number of miles away, the North Carolina Museum of Art is a stalwart in the Tarheel state. In addition to its indoor museum, NCMA is residence to 4.7 miles of trails with outside sculptures, installations and an Instagram-beloved sunflower backyard.
EDITOR’S NOTE: NCS’s Yoonjung Seo contributed reporting.