Baccarat Hotel New York

What the classifiers highlight

Facing the Museum of Modern Art on East 53rd Street, this hotel is built around millions of dollars in Baccarat crystal, from lobby chandeliers to a mica-vaulted ceiling above the sitting salons. Forbes counts 114 rooms kept deliberately plain by comparison, white walls and marble baths, plus Spa de La Mer's 55-foot marble-tiled pool. It earned Five Stars in 2017.