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Embark on the journey of a lifetime with Destination Hunter as your digital guide. Discover all that awaits you anywhere in the United States, Mexico, Canada, or the Caribbean Islands with just a few clicks of the mouse.

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British Virgin Islands

When Christopher Columbus passed the archipelago east of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Sea in 1493, he named it Santa Ursula y las Once Mil Virgenes, or Saint Ursula and Her 11,000 Virgins, Of these, the easternmost 60 islands, rocks, and cays comprise what are now known as the British Virgin Islands.

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Canada

To describe Canada as a melting pot doesn't begin to do justice to the second largest country in the world. With a substantial aboriginal population, centuries of immigrants arriving from around the world and bilingual provinces, Canada offers a little bit of everything.

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Mexico

Mexico is among the richest Latin American countries in traditions, formed by the fusion of the Spanish culture—present in everything from architecture to language, from Talavera tile-making to the Catholic religion—layered on to the already complex, sophisticated and luxurious map of indigenous Mesoamerica.

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