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Pura Vida is positively synonymous with Costa Rica. If not for a Mexican comedy, though, the pairing likely would not have ever happened.

Over the past 3 generations, Los Hermanos Guillén have collected and reproduced native Taíno ceramic art preserving the history of Hispañola.

The center of the Roman Catholic Church in Martinique for more than 350 years, Saint Louis Cathedral's ties to the Eiffel Tower run to its core.

Founded in 1880 by Catholic nuns, Jamaica's Alpha Boys' School has somewhat miraculously served as one of the world's greatest music factories for generations.

For more than a decade, you had to be in the French Navy to get inside Martinique's Fort Saint Louis. All that just changed a few weeks ago.

Most colonial era ruins in the Caribbean are of sugar plantations. Others, like the BVI Copper Mine ruins in Virgin Gorda, are much more uncommon.

Overlooking Exuma Sound on the edge of Williams Town, Little Exuma is a truly bizarre sight: a 30 foot tall Tuscan style pillar known as Salt Beacon.

Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien in downtown Port-au-Prince houses one of the most incredible collections of historic artifacts anywhere in the Caribbean.

Soccer is the #1 sport In Haiti. This, of course, makes the FIFA World Cup Haiti's #1 sporting event, and what happened in July 1974 the stuff of legend.