10 Most Expensive City Hotels in the U.S.

The cheapest stay at the most luxurious hotels in Manhattan will still set you back nearly $1,000 a night.

New York City's Mandarin Oriental and The Ritz-Carlton Central Park are the most expensive city hotels in the United States, according to a recent report from Luxury-Hotels.com.

While the Big Apple certainly dominated the list, increasing competition could impact rates.

"More and more luxury hotels are being built in Manhattan...and there are more luxury Airbnb flats and that puts pressure on the luxury market," said Daniel Derger, who oversaw the survey.

For the survey, Luxury-Hotels analyzed rates for a double room for a one or two-day stay in October in cities with more than 500,000 people. Mondays and Tuesdays were excluded from bookings.

October tends to be the most expensive month for luxury hotel bookings, thanks in part to heavy business travel, according to Derger.

Here are the most expensive city hotels in the United States:

10 Most Country Cars That Aren’t Trucks

You can take the car out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the car.

Without doubt, when it comes to country, the truck is the king of the road. The Ford F-Series is the best-selling car in just about every state that isn’t a part of New England (and actually some that are). But if we forget about trucks for a moment, what other cars are tied to the country, for better or worse?

Some cars earn their association by reputation, others by sales numbers, and still others by popular culture. When it comes down to it, it is just as difficult to disassociate these vehicles with country as it is trucks. Here are the 10 most country cars that aren’t trucks.

10 Tallest Tower in the World

This is a list of extant towers that fulfill the engineering definition of a tower "a tall man-made structure, always taller than it is wide, meant for public or regular operational access by humans, but not for living in or office work, and are self-supporting or free-standing, which means no guy-wires for support." The definition means the exclusion from this list of continuously habitable buildings and skyscrapers as well as radio and TV masts. Also excluded from this list because they are not designed for public or regular operational access are Bridge towers or pylons, chimneys, transmission towers, sculptures and most large statues and obelisks.

Towers are most often built to use their height for various purposes and can stand alone or as part of a larger structure. Some common purposes are for telecommunications, and as a viewing platform.

7 Smallest Cat Breeds

We all love having a cute little kitten and many of us wish that they stayed tiny forever. Luckily there are some cat breeds that stay small even when they are fully grown. Check out this list of our 7 smallest cat breeds that still have a larger than life attitude.

10 Must See Castles in Ireland

The picturesque country of Ireland contains many castles situated in its vast countryside. Ranging from medieval ruins, to hotels.

Most of these castles were not built to be royal residences so are more modest in their appearance, they were mostly built during the country’s Norman rule, and were designed primarily to act as defensive fortresses.

10 Best Infinity Pools in the World

Infinity pools are all about blurring the line between man-made and natural, and few places have a more gorgeous contrast than these ten hotel pools. From elephant spotting in the Serengeti to country-counting in the Golden Triangle, there's so much more than just swimming to do at our favorite infinity pools across the globe.

10 Richest Man in The World

With every passing year, more opportunities arise for the rich and elite in the world to claim a spot as one of the richest people in the world. It’s the ultimate achievement in the world of the rich. While some have held on to their positions, others have been succeeded by new leaders and innovators. Including the top 10 on this list, there are 1,810 billionaires recorded in the world today, their combined net worths totaling a staggering 6.48 trillion dollars.

10 Tallest Buildings in The World

The international non-profit organization Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) was formed in 1969 and announces the title of "The World's Tallest Building" and sets the standards by which buildings are measured. It maintains a list of the 100 tallest completed buildings in the world. The organization currently ranks Burj Khalifa in Dubai as the tallest at 828 m (2,717 ft). The CTBUH only recognizes buildings that are complete, however, and some buildings listed within these list articles are not considered complete by the CTBUH.

In 1996, as a response to the dispute as to whether the Petronas Towers or the Sears Tower was taller, the council listed and ranked buildings in four categories:

• height to structural or architectural top;
• height to floor of highest occupied floor;
• height to top of roof (removed as category in November 2009); and
• height to top of any part of the building.

This list of tallest buildings in the world ranks skyscrapers by height. Only buildings with continuously occupiable floors are included, thus non-building structures, including towers, are not included.

10 Deadliest Snipers of World War II

Sniper is a highly trained sharpshooter who hits the target from concealed positions and some distances. A sniper generally operates alone with a special precision rifle and some sort of communication devices.

The word ‘sniper’ and the verb ‘to snipe’ originated among the troopers in the 1770s in British India where it was an extremely difficult task to hunt the migratory Snipe bird (Gallinago gallinago) due to its camouflage feather patterns and erratic flight patterns. The phrase ‘Going on a snipe hunt’ is used by experienced people to make fun of novices by giving them virtually an impossible task.

In addition to sharpshooting, military snipers are also trained in infiltration, field craft, camouflage, surveillance, reconnaissance and target locating. During the WWII, the Soviet snipers played a remarkable role on the Eastern Front. The Russian snipers generally used the standard Mosin-Nagant 1891 model rifles with optical PU Scope (Scope short cut), 7.62×54mmR rifle cartridges, armor piercing B-30 shells, tracer bullets and calibrated incendiary (P3). They used to carry 120 rifle cartridges as combat load. Unlike other countries, women were also recruited by Soviet Union as snipers and there were over 2,000 women snipers operating in 1943. Soviet Union was also the only country that trained snipers on purpose in the decade leading up to WWII and their superiority in the following list of top 10 most lethal snipers of World War II is clearly visible. 9 out of 10 in this list are Soviet snipers and 1 Finnish sniper.

10 Fastest Cars in the World (2016)

There are many ways to measure automotive excellence, but top speed is the one everybody secretly cares about the most. Aldous Huxley was right about speed being the only truly modern sensation. He left out the part about how much fun it is. These 10 cars are more than just fun, though, they’re the fastest production cars in the world. The emphasis here is on “production;” racers and one-off custom jobs need not apply. We also tried to limit the selections to cars whose claimed top speeds have been generally recognized as legitimate by the automotive media and sanctioning groups. For now, though, these are the fastest cars that can legally sport a license plate.