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

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

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

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

Learn the history of Dominican rum production.

A remarkable range of flora and fauna are represented in this Dominican nature preserve.

This replica medieval European village in the Dominican Republic was built by a Hollywood set designer.

The first hospital in the New World.

Collection of fossils, plants, and ancient animals encased in amber.

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.

This memorial to a family's dead son has survived a century of hurricanes and earthquakes.

Puerto Rico's oldest rum producer started its 140-year-old business with "a little barrel."

This ''hidden'' 19th-century bridge played a simple, yet important role during the Spanish-American War.

The ruins of the first Spanish settlement in Puerto Rico.

This small fort played a huge role defending Puerto Rico’s capital city.

An enchanting natural wonder in Puerto Rico's Camuy River Park.

The location of Puerto Rico's first water bottling plant, thanks to a collaboration between Mother Nature and technology.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.

This orchid sanctuary protects countless varieties of the flower, from the huge to the microscopic.

This incredibly diverse research station is one of the largest tropical botanical gardens in the world.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

Beach instrument turned bed and breakfast.