Places educatorclaire Wants to Go

At first glance, little checkered structures on the hillside look like they house the living, not the dead.

Rare signs of the former Soviet Union in the Caribbean, though not where you'd expect them.

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

One of the first sewers in the Americas.

The final resting place of Christopher Columbus - or possibly someone else.

The first hospital in the New World.

Renowned restaurant tucked in a cave once occupied by buccaneers.

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.

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

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

An old slave lookout in Cuba's historic sugar cane fields.

Prehistoric history as seen through the lens of an outsider artist.

Roam the cradle of the Cuban Revolution with life-sized dinosaurs.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.

Neo-cave art on the macro scale.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

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.

A bronze sculpture of Lenin’s likeness outside Havana surrounded by 12 human figures in solidarity with the Bolshevik Revolution.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.