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

Under the desolate and windswept northern coast of Barbados stands a small oasis filled with sea anemones.

Come for the springs; stay for the mud bath.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

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

An old Dutch lightvessel is now stuck in a dock near the mouth of the Suriname River.

The end appears to be nigh for the world's fourth-longest floating bridge.

The largest market in Guyana, designed and built by the Edge Moor Iron Company of Delaware.

Though dynamited and defaced, the statue still stands outside the law courts in Georgetown, Guyana.

Georgetown’s most impressive building is also one of the tallest wooden churches in the world.

A monument to Cuffy, a rebellious enslaved person who became a national hero in Guyana.

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

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

The vaulted ceiling is home to a scurry of “squirrelgoyles.”

This unusual building straddles two countries.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.