Islands

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.

A sharply wedged sundial marks the point at which each day in the United States begins.

Now home to nothing but a weather station and a landing strip, a group of enslaved people were marooned on this tiny island for 15 years.

This Croatian island is for sale but no one is buying due to the dozens of accused Nazi sympathizers who were massacred there after WWII.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

The ruins of this Brazilian island prison still bear the scars of the bloody rebellion that closed it down.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.