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All the Bahamas

The Atlas Obscura Guide To The Bahamas

18 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in the Bahamas

Updated March 15, 2023

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Unusual Attractions in Bahamas

Swimming pigs.

Big Major Cay, Bahamas

Pig Beach

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

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Dean's Blue Hole

One of the deepest blue holes in the world.
Ocean Atlas (2014)

Nassau, Bahamas

Ocean Atlas

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.
Aerial view of Bimini Road

North Bimini Island, Bahamas

Bimini Road

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.
Nurse sharks at Compass Cay, swimming by the dock for food. (Brett Young/Atlas Obscura)

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Nurse Sharks of Compass Cay

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.
Queen’s Staircase.

Nassau, Bahamas

Queen's Staircase

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.
Cavernous exploration requires specialized equipment and highly skilled divers

Andros I, Bahamas

Subsurface Bahamian Caves

Inhospitable caverns just beneath this island paradise offer insights into alien worlds.
View looking south, the Atlantic Ocean on the left, and Caribbean on the right

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Glass Window Bridge

This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.
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Stories About the Bahamas

This photo, captured by researchers Matthew Gardner and David Pereira on Grand Bahama in 2018, is one of the last-known sightings of the Bahama nuthatch. It is believed the bird was wiped out by Hurricane Dorian in 2019.

The Last Days of the Bahama Nuthatch

What's it like to "very probably" witness extinction?
by Shoshi Parks
March 15, 2023
An Allen Cay iguana strolling along the beach.

Solved: How the 'Monstrous' Iguanas of the Bahamas Got So Darn Big

The secret's in the seabirds.
by Erica Tennenhouse
May 20, 2019
An illustration of Anne Bonny and Mary Read from the 1724 book A General History of the Pyrates.

How Two 18th-Century Lady Pirates Became BFFs on the High Seas

Mary Read and Anne Bonny were the most feared pirate queens in the Caribbean.
by Hadley Meares
September 9, 2015

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