Places afink Wants to Go

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

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

In Costa Rica's cloud forest, the roots of a woody ficus create a botanical bridge.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

Costa Rican accommodation resembles a crash site, but with a nice balcony.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

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

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

These two giant boulders mysteriously perched on a 60-foot cliff may have been slung up there by a raging tsunami.

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.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.

This maximum-security prison was abandoned to make way for a national park.

A full-scale sculpture of a mermaid and baby grand piano hidden underwater by David Copperfield.

One of the most accessible undersea plane wrecks in the world.

A glowing underwater cliff attracts marine life and divers in equal measure.

The enormous appendage offers spectacular views of Colombia's Huila Department.

The decaying remains of a ship whose captain mysteriously disappeared.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

One of the deepest blue holes in the world.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

Enchanting cave with a river crashing through the roof.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

This tiny shop has been serving traditional tamales for more than 200 years.