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Image of Baconao Park located in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba | Animals graze below the massive dinosaurs (Flickr/raunov)
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Baconao Park

Roam Cuba with life-sized dinosaurs

Santiago de Cuba is known as the “Cradle of the Revolution.” The southern city holds a claim to fame in Cuba for being the staging area for Fidel Castro’s raid on the Moncada Barracks in 1953.... »

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Image of Viñales Mural de la Prehistoria located in Vinales, Cuba | Pastel colors of the Viñales Mural (Flickr/chericbaker)
Vinales, Cuba

Viñales Mural de la Prehistoria

Neo-cave art on the macro scale

The Viñales Mural de la Prehistoria is the work of the former Director of Mapping at the Cuban Academy of Sciences, Leovigildo González Morillo. A master of neo-caveman artistry, Morillo undertook... »

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Image of Callejon de Hammel located in Havana, Cuba
Havana, Cuba

Callejon de Hammel

by Gonzalez Escalona

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Image of Presidio Modelo located in Nueva Gerona, Cuba
Nueva Gerona, Cuba

Presidio Modelo

Series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba

Built between 1926 and 1928, the Presidio Modelo was designed to be a model prison by President-turned-Dictator Gerardo Machado. Each building is a circle of prison cells surrounding a center... »

Crime and Punishment | Edited by A Facebook user, Nicholas Jackson and others

Image of John Lennon Statue located in Havana, Cuba
Havana, Cuba

John Lennon Statue

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now imortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer"

It's no surprise that the music of John Lennon and the Beatles was banned from Communist Cuba in the 1960s and 70s. Cuban authorities considered the music "ideological diversionism," and decadent... »

Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues | Edited by michelle

Image of Old Havana Perfume Museum located in Havana, Cuba | Ambergris, civet musk, and other animal products used in perfume.
Havana, Cuba

Old Havana Perfume Museum

This communist country can still appreciate its fragrant past

While Cuba is a communist country, there are still some frivolous, commercial things for which the Cubans have a great weakness. Perfume is one of them. In Old Havana stands the perfume... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan and martofkukuf