Cuba

Why it sticks

1. 1

   Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean.

2. 2

   Fidel Castro's revolution in 1959 made it a communist state just 150 km from Florida, which led to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

3. 3

   Because of the US embargo, 1950s American cars are still everyday taxis on Havana streets.

• No Google Street View: only user photospheres.
• Classic 1950s American cars, Soviet-era Ladas and horse carts on the roads.
• Spanish-language revolutionary billboards and murals of Che Guevara or Fidel Castro.
• Crumbling colonial pastel facades in the capital and flat sugarcane and tobacco fields in the countryside.