The remnants of an archaeological camp stand within Tikal National Park.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

A sharply wedged sundial marks the point at which each day in the United States begins.

Uninhabited islet in the Caribbean is the sanctuary of giant lizards.

The site of a devastating modern-day mud volcano eruption that buried parts of a village.

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

This century old flensing port is a remnant of a culture for whom whaling is still legal.

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

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

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

A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.

Rare signs of the former Soviet Union in the Caribbean, though not where you'd expect them.

A gallery of underwater art that can be visited by man and fish alike.

The final resting place of Christopher Columbus - or possibly someone else.

Columbus' failed colony in the New World.

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

This mountaintop lake bubbles and steams in a perpetual boil, thanks to its direct link to the Earth's interior.

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

Roam the cradle of the Cuban Revolution with life-sized dinosaurs.