The shortest in the world, this landing strip stretches a mere 1,312 feet before steep cliffs on either end plunge into the Caribbean.

A mountain of conch shells created by centuries of fishermen.

The abandoned Bermudian home of a British naval leader is surrounded by crumbling sporting fields and the graves of convicts.

A tropical paradise once home to space exploration and military installations.

Where a rare geological phenomenon created a section of rock that resembles a checkerboard.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

Under the desolate and windswept northern coast of Barbados stands a small oasis filled with sea anemones.

In the Bahamas sits a lighthouse that is among the last of its kind.

A paradise hotel turned from opulent to overgrown.

A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.

One of the deepest blue holes in the world.

The remnants of an abandoned, 19th-century gold mill along Aruba's rugged northeastern coast.

A hotly contested micro-nation off the coast of Montserrat.

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

A nearly abandoned Jewish settlement perched atop a hill in the heart of Yemen.

The remains of a Zoroastrian temple that bore witness to a time when Aden was a flourishing trading hub.

One of the largest mud-brick structures in the world.

One of Yemen’s oldest and most beautiful mosques was named for the incredible, historical queen buried inside it.

This impressive system of tanks was used to store drinking water as long as 2,000 years ago.

Elaborate patterns adorn the city's disappearing traditional architecture.

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

A mesmerizing reservoir nestled at the heart of a pre-Islamic Yemeni village.