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Giddy House at Fort Charles, Jamaica is, the Caribbean's answer to Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's also, sadly, somewhat easily missed.

Marie Sharp's has been proudly producing "farm-to-bottle," single-estate, artisanal pepper sauce that's the quintessential taste of Belize since 1981.

You won't find much on Cubagua, the smallest and least populated of the islands that comprise the state of Nueva Esparta, Venezuela.

Rum shops are everywhere in Trinidad. Roti shops are too. Where you don't find either of them, sometimes you'll find shark oil shops.

There are only four such shores like these anywhere in the world, a fact that keeps St. Barts at or near the top of my travel wish list year after year.

It's near about impossible to venture into St. John's, the vibrant capital of Antigua and Barbuda, without seeing the V. C. Bird Monument.

Peace Hill Sugar Mill St John is aptly-named. Few places in the Virgin Islands offer such awe-inspiring views.

In the middle of Cruz Bay, you'll find as charming a little chapel as exists anywhere in the Caribbean: Nazareth Lutheran Church St John.

It's not Rio Camuy (Puerto Rico) or Grotte Marie Jeanne (Haiti), but the Conch Bar Caves do offer surprising bit of soft adventuring that's 180-degrees from the usual beach 'n chill pursuits so common in TCI.