Jamaica

A vivid turquoise sinkhole and swimming hole in the White River Valley near Ocho Rios, reached by a short hike through jungle, where visitors rope-swing, cliff-jump and swim in the mineral-rich blue-green water.

The former home and recording studio of reggae legend Bob Marley at 56 Hope Road, Kingston, now a museum and cultural centre preserving the legacy of the artist who transformed Jamaican music into a global force.

A terraced cascade of waterfalls descending roughly 180 metres into the Caribbean Sea at Ocho Rios, one of the few waterfalls in the world that flows directly into the sea.

A 17th-century English fort in Port Royal, Jamaica, built to guard the mouth of the Kingston Harbour; one of the oldest surviving forts in the Americas and a window into the violent naval history that made Jamaica the richest colony in the British Caribbean.

An 1820s Georgian Great House near Montego Bay, restored as a museum and hotel, notorious as the alleged home of Annie Palmer, a self-proclaimed witch who ruled the plantation through fear and three dead husbands.

A long arc of white-sand beach on the western tip of Jamaica near Negril, consistently ranked among the finest beaches in the Caribbean, with shallow turquoise water, a shallow shelf and sunsets over the Palm trees that face directly west.