Islands

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

Site of an oft forgotten and revolutionary battle.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

A lake formed in the basin of a massive impact crater takes the shape of an unbroken ring when viewed from above.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

A man-made island designed to look like a massive battleship.

Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.

Island, once a pirate hideout, now home to an abandoned resort.

A tiny, picturesque island, where cows and wild horses wander around the houses.

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.