Built some 700 years ago, this Taíno ceremonial site features ball courts, petroglyphs, and evidence of ancient astronomy practices.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

Thousands of Haitians travel to the waterfalls to ask the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie for healing in a yearly pilgrimage.

A Caribbean chef recreates his enslaved great-great-grandmother's dishes inside the home she purchased after buying her freedom.

Columbus' failed colony in the New World.

Collection of fossils, plants, and ancient animals encased in amber.

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.

This historic hiding place, often used by people escaping slavery, is a testament to a heroic struggle for freedom.

Besides being home to cave paintings and pre-Columbian Cuban archaeological remains, you get to take a boat through this stalactite and stalagmite covered cave.

Prehistoric history as seen through the lens of an outsider artist.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

A sanctuary for sickly, stray, or wounded donkeys.

This huge pile of volcanic boulders hides a stunning network of secret grottoes.

One of the last members of the Byzantine Empire's last ruling dynasty is buried in the far-off soil of Barbados.

The site of the earliest colonial settlement in the Bahamas started as a place of religious refuge.

Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

A safe place for the wild donkeys of a hot vacation destination.

A series of magical limestone formations along the coastline of the country island of Antigua.

A small museum dedicated to Vietnam’s lesser-known Iron Age culture.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

This former monastery in Vietnam now houses a chocolate shop and museum filled with centuries-old taxidermy specimens.