Islands

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

Home to what locals claim is the largest whale skeleton in Southeast Asia, which is worshiped yearly.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.