Places Hheeaatthh Wants to Go

The first hospital in the New World.

Learn the history of Dominican rum production.

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 replica medieval European village in the Dominican Republic was built by a Hollywood set designer.

This former sugarcane transport tunnel is now a portal to a lovely beach.

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

This limestone cave offers an incredible view of the Río Grande de Arecibo valley.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

Rumored to be the famed pirate's lookout tower, this historic stone structure is now just watching for tourists.

This huge pile of volcanic boulders hides a stunning network of secret grottoes.

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

This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.

A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.

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

A gallery of underwater art that can be visited by man and fish alike.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.