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Scattered ruins and a tiny cemetery are all that remain of a failed attempt to colonize the inhospitable Desolate Islands.

French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.

The southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world has whale bones standing in its yard.

An ever-growing field of footwear invites legends and more shoes.

This haunting ghost ship stands beached in the waters off the coast of the Falkland Islands.

Like something out of a pulp adventure, this abandoned plane wreck is slowly being retaken by the Caribbean jungle.

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

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

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

A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.

The site of a devastating modern-day mud volcano eruption that buried parts of a village.

This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

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

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

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

A violent name for a violent volcano.

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.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

Learn the history of Dominican rum production.

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.

Broken Catholic cross now worshiped in the voodoo faith.

Thousands of Haitians travel to the waterfalls to ask the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie for healing in a yearly pilgrimage.