Blue starry cave night

A night-lit niche

Thanks to its skylight-pocked ceiling, moon and sun alike have a straight shot at the floor of this Middle Caicos cave. Seen here bathed in the eerie blue of a lunar long-exposure shot, Indian Cave is a place of strange beauty by night or day—the vinelike ficus roots that dangle from its ceiling only add to the fantasy-novel feel. These unique features may single Indian Cave out, but caverns and sinkholes are commonplace across the Turks and Caicos Islands, owing to the territory's limestone bedrock that's prone to erosive karst action.