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A violent name for a violent volcano.

Looking like nothing more than a cartoon deserted island, this tiny sandbar is home only to a single umbrella.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

The first hospital in the New World.

This trio of Dominican cave lakes comprise a colorful biosphere of natural life.

This mountaintop lake bubbles and steams in a perpetual boil, thanks to its direct link to the Earth's interior.

A flower grows on this giant stone that is said be able to control minds.

This Cuban town sets the sky on fire around Christmas each year.

A massive maritime collision may have led to the myth of a resort island's strange financial status.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

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

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

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

One man's love of sea life and art has turned his home into a temple of outsider island art.

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

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.

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

Inhospitable caverns just beneath this island paradise offer insights into alien worlds.

One of the deepest blue holes in the world.

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.

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

Right angles in the forests of Panama.

This incredibly diverse research station is one of the largest tropical botanical gardens in the world.

This collection of historical artifacts and tropical wildlife waits just beneath the surface of the water.