Inside Costa Rica’s Alcatraz and Another 5 Top Locations

Variety is featuring notable destinations, beginning with San Lucas Island off Costa Rica's coast. The island served as the country's principal penitentiary from eighteen seventy-three to nineteen ninety-one, housing some of its most serious offenders in conditions marked by harsh treatment. The crystalline waters surrounding the site now frame a location of historical significance that Variety highlights among several other notable places.

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