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.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

A bronze sculpture of Lenin’s likeness outside Havana surrounded by 12 human figures in solidarity with the Bolshevik Revolution.

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

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

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

A pre-Columbian ceremonial and astronomical site built by the Taino Indians.

A collection cataloguing one of the most brutal dictatorships in modern history.

Learn the history of Dominican rum production.

Columbus' failed colony in the New World.

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

The first hospital in the New World.

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

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

A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.

One of the deepest blue holes in the world.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.

Despite being tiny and rural this Georgian airport looks like a sci-fi boondoggle.

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.