A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

A colossal statue with a controversial past, forgotten for more than 30 years.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.

A Spanish-style estate that has traded black ties for rock concerts.

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

The site of the earliest colonial settlement in the Bahamas started as a place of religious refuge.

Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.

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.

This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.

One of the most accessible undersea plane wrecks in the world.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.

One of the deepest blue holes in the world.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.