In this nearly 1,000-year-old monastery, monks painstakingly restore old books.

It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

A magnificent waterfall nestled in the heart of the El Yunque National Forest.

On this Puerto Rican island, many abandoned naval ammunition bunkers sit open while a few have been padlocked by locals as personal storage.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

Divers can encounter an abandoned warship encircled by a giant kraken submerged in the British Virgin Islands.

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

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

The cell which saved the life of Ludger Sylbaris, "the man who lived through Doomsday."

On a small island in the Caribbean, a statue of Napoleon's first wife has been beheaded and covered in red paint.

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

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

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

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.

Starting with nothing more than discarded conch shells, one man has built an island/bar that would make Jimmy Buffet jealous.

These eclectic homes nestled into the cliffs of a Caribbean island were built entirely from scavenged materials.

This century old flensing port is a remnant of a culture for whom whaling is still legal.