Islands

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.

A tiny island home to a former English slave fort.

No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

A desert island with both a buried treasure and a famous castaway.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

This tiny island in the South China Sea is crawling with venomous sea snakes.