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37.1832, -113.7069
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North Bimini Island, Bahamas
Bimini Road
An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.
25.7648, -79.2800
Havana, Cuba
Old Havana Perfume Museum
This communist country can still appreciate its fragrant past.
23.1385, -82.3502
Havana, Cuba
Havana's Steam Engine Museum
Cuba's historical trains remind natives of their country's sugary sweet past.
23.1234, -82.3647
Viñales, Cuba
Viñales Mural de la Prehistoria
Neo-cave art on the macro scale.
22.6195, -83.7428
Falmouth, Jamaica
Glistening Waters
Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.
18.4829, -77.6334
Runaway Bay, Jamaica
Firewater Pond
The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.
18.4563, -77.3267
Port Royal, Jamaica
Sunken Pirate City at Port Royal
Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."
17.9383, -76.8442
Gun Bay, Cayman Islands
Wreck of the Ten Sail
A massive maritime collision may have led to the myth of a resort island's strange financial status.
19.3093, -81.0905
George Town, Cayman Islands
George Town
The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.
19.2868, -81.3721
West Bay, Cayman Islands
Hell, Grand Cayman
Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.
19.3791, -81.4068
Homestead, Florida
Ed Leedskalnin's Coral Castle
A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.
25.5005, -80.4446
Big Pine Key, Florida
Overseas Railroad and Pigeon Key
Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.
24.7041, -81.1552
Key West, Florida
Pan Am's First Office
The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.
24.5574, -81.8053
Key West, Florida
Hemingway's Last Penny
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
24.5512, -81.8006
Key West, Florida
Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
24.5511, -81.8005
Key West, Florida
Southernmost Point of the Continental U.S.
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
24.5465, -81.7975
Key West, Florida
The Conch Republic
"We Seceded Where Others Failed."
24.5557, -81.7826
North Miami Beach, Florida
The Cloisters of the Ancient Spanish Monastery
St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.
25.9304, -80.1544
Key Biscayne, Florida
Stiltsville
A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.
25.6513, -80.1742
Miami Beach, Florida
The Wolfsonian-FIU
Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.
25.7810, -80.1324
Costa Rica
Diquís Spheres
These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.
8.9108, -83.4788
Villa de Leyva, Colombia
Museo El Fósil
A museum built around a bus-sized fossil on the side of the highway.
5.6371, -73.5592
Zipaquira, Colombia
Cathedral of Salt
Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.
5.0188, -74.0100
Clifton, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Happy Island
Starting with nothing more than discarded conch shells, one man has built an island/bar that would make Jimmy Buffet jealous.
12.5918, -61.4084
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